Hany Abo Rida is the President of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) and sits on the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Executive Committee. He first became a board member in the EFA in 1989 and served as the Local Organising Committee Vice-President and President at two FIFA tournaments in Egypt: the FIFA U-17 World Cup in 1997 and the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2009. He was a promising footballer before becoming an engineer and a football administrator.