Adelaide-born women’s soccer advocate Moya Dodd beaten in vote at the Asian Football Confederation congress
Things did not go the way women’s soccer advocate and Australia’s most powerful FIFA voice, Moya Dodd, would have liked at the Asian Football Confederation congress.
ADELAIDE-BORN women’s soccer advocate and Australia’s most powerful FIFA voice, Moya Dodd, was beaten in a vote by Mahfuza Ahkter, of Bangladesh, at the Asian Football Confederation congress in Bahrain on Monday night.
As a consequence Dodd also lost her spot with FIFA after she had been a member of FIFA’s old executive committee.
She was vying for a spot on the FIFA council which replaced the executive committee as FIFA’s decision-making body under reforms after the 2015 corruption scandal in soccer’s world governing body.
Ahkter beat Dodd by 27 votes to 17.
North Korea’s Han Un-gyong and Palestine’s Susan R.A. Shalani withdrew from the election shortly before the vote.
Dodd, 52, is also on Football Federation Australia’s board and was a Matildas vice-captain.