FIFA Elects First Woman Executive

Burundi FA president Lydia Nsekera has been elected as the first woman to FIFA's Executive Committee in the governing body's 109-year history.

Lydia Nsekera(46)will serve a 4-year term on the committee after winning the vote(got 95 of the 203 votes) at the Fifa congress in Mauritius.(Australian Moya Dodd got 70 votes and Sonia Bien-Aime, of Turks and Caicos Islands got 38 votes)

Lydia Nsekera who last year became the first woman to be co-opted to the executive committee, has been head of the Burundi FA since 2004 and was a member of Fifa's organising committee for the 2008 and 2012 Olympic football tournaments. A member of the International Olympic Committee, she is also on the independent governance committee set up in 2011 to tackle corruption withinFIFA