Jessica Motaung takes on CAF position

Kaizer Chiefs' Marketing and Commercial Director Jessica Motaung has been roped into the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Organising Committee for Women™s Football Standing committee.

She will serve in the role with other 22 members from 17 countries from 2022-2024.

Motaung who was also part of the CAF Women™s Football Taskforce Workshop in 2019 said she is thrilled about the road ahead. And she believes that more commercial brains in CAF will steer women™s football in the right direction.

œIt™s a very exciting time in the women™s game and it is such an honour to be called through-having served in the task team in 2019 to put together the strategy and now to be part of the committee that is going to make sure that the vision is realised and put into place, (and) to make sure that African football grows from strength to strength". Said excited Motaung

Learning how other leading women™s football countries will be important in the committee™s quest to growing the game on the continent. Motaung will be serving side by side with the former president of the Sierra Leone Football Association Isha Tejan-Cole Johansen.

œ(So) it™s very exciting and I™m just proud to be part of the committee with woman like Isha Johansen who™s been here for a long time and of course the head of the committee Motaung added

Jessica Motaung believes that women™s football in Africa can catch up to the rest of the world. She has been appointed to the CAF Organising Committee for Women Football Standing Committee from 2022-2024.#SABCSport411 #SABCSportFootball pic.twitter.com/Wug1PBQHTn— SABC Sport (@SPORTATSABC) May 4, 2022

Amakhosi fans have been calling for the club to establish a women™s team for a while and with CAF requiring teams taking part in continental club competitions, Chiefs says they are still researching on how to enter the space.

œIt™s not something we wanna do just quickly. It™s a significant one, I think there is important investment that needs to go into it, the types of players we wanna have, the type of culture we wanna build there is very important for us¦

œso there has been work behind scenes, our technical guys have been working and looking at the space, there has been a lot of research done around the South African landscape to understand what™s happening in the women™s football, so we have been working Motaung concluded

By Busisiwe Mokwena