As FIFA's secretary general, Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura is one of the most powerful figures in world football. Her appointment last June was historic and groundbreaking -- the 54-year-old from Senegal is the first woman, and the first non-European, to hold an executive post at soccer's governing body.

As FIFA's secretary general, Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura is one of the most powerful figures in world football. Her appointment last June was historic and groundbreaking -- the 54-year-old from Senegal is the first woman, and the first non-European, to hold an executive post at soccer's governing body.

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As FIFA's secretary general, Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura is one of the most powerful figures in world football.