Mohammed bin Hammam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Qatari football administrator
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Place of Birth: Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar
About Mohammed bin Hammam
- Mohamed bin Hammam (Arabic: ???? ?? ??????; born 8 May 1949) is a Qatari who was a football administrator and president of the Asian Football Confederation from 1 August 2002 to 14 June 2011, and a member of FIFA's 24-man executive committee from 1996 to 2011 for more than 15 years.
- In 1975 he made a company called Kemco.
- In 1976 he became the president of Al Rayyan and then resigned in 1987.
- A year after he left, Al Rayyan got relegated to the second division of Qatari Football.
- He came back and was successful in getting them promoted and in the same season they won (89-90) they won the league for the 6th time.
- On February,1,1992 He became the president of the QFA and in that very same year they won their first cup.(Gulf Cup).
- In 1996 he joined FIFA and then became president of the AFC.On 23 July 2011, Bin Hammam was banned for life from all FIFA and football related activities by an action of the FIFA Ethics Committee.
- Bin Hammam challenged this sanction in the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the ban was subsequently annulled on 19 July 2012 due to lack of sufficient evidence.
- However, just 5 months later in December 2012, FIFA handed bin Hammam a second life ban from football after "conflicts of interest" were identified in his role as president of the AFC.He was the subject of an exposé published by the British newspaper the Sunday Times in June 2014.
- The newspaper published leaked email documents which showed that bin Hammam had paid members of other nations' Football Associations in the run up to his FIFA presidential election campaign and prior to the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids decision that took place in December 2010.
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