{"id":5612,"date":"2025-08-15T14:58:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=5612"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:49:13","slug":"the-south-sudan-football-federation-holds-its-elective-congress-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=5612","title":{"rendered":"The South Sudan Football Federation Holds Its Elective Congress Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Juba: Al-Wadi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All eyes today, Friday, turn to the conference hall at the headquarters of the Bank of South Sudan in the Gendoro district of the capital, Juba, to follow the fourth extraordinary Elective Congress of the South Sudan Football Federation, convened to elect a new board of directors for the next four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1332\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/530496692_1185116000317415_1448197257046181533_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/530496692_1185116000317415_1448197257046181533_n.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/530496692_1185116000317415_1448197257046181533_n-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/530496692_1185116000317415_1448197257046181533_n-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/530496692_1185116000317415_1448197257046181533_n-1536x999.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Contesting the presidency are the current president of the association, Augustino Maduot, and his predecessor, Francis Amin. Running for the position of First Vice President are current vice president Charles Udwar, Makur Majok, and Simon Peter. Competing for the position of Second Vice President are Deng Abdulrahman and Vinancio Amom.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/532411810_1591021902295678_8256941291014458524_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5615\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/532411810_1591021902295678_8256941291014458524_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/532411810_1591021902295678_8256941291014458524_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Augustino Maduot has led the association over the past four years and is seeking the general assembly\u2019s confidence to continue heading the country\u2019s top football governing body. Former president Francis Amin, meanwhile, is hoping this time to unseat his rival and reclaim the presidency he lost in 2021 to General Maduot.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"626\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/532040866_1591021865629015_3123612957688539838_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5616\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/532040866_1591021865629015_3123612957688539838_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/532040866_1591021865629015_3123612957688539838_n-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A total of 38 delegates from the 16 local associations that are members of the South Sudan Football Association are preparing to cast their votes to elect a president, two vice presidents, and members of the executive committee for the next four-year term of the association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba: Al-Wadi All eyes today, Friday, turn to the conference hall at the headquarters of the Bank of South Sudan in the Gendoro district of the capital, Juba, to follow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5617,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions\/5617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}