{"id":94782,"date":"2025-12-09T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/yelena-hazim-first-woman-secretary-general-of-fedofutbol-rd\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:56:08","slug":"yelena-hazim-first-woman-secretary-general-of-fedofutbol-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/yelena-hazim-first-woman-secretary-general-of-fedofutbol-rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelena Hazim, first woman Secretary General of FEDOFUTBOL RD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Yelena Hazim Figuereo Makes History at the Head of the Dominican Football Federation<\/h2>\n\nThe Dominican Football Federation (FDF) announced the appointment of Yelena Hazim Figuereo as its new general secretary. This appointment marks a significant milestone in the history of Dominican football, as Hazim becomes the first woman to hold this position in more than seven decades.\n\nThe FDF, founded in 1953 and affiliated with FIFA, has entrusted Hazim to lead the general secretariat, a key position in the administration of football in the Dominican Republic.\n\nHazim Figuereo has a solid career in the sports field. Previously, she served as Director of Development and Compliance of the FDF for almost three years, from August 2020 to November 2022. During this time, she played a fundamental role and established an excellent reputation with FIFA.\n\nIn the sports field, Hazim collaborated with Carlos Ram\u00edrez in the creation and execution of the National Tournament of Associations and Clubs, a competition that has been key to the development of formative soccer in the country.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I assume this position with great pride and great responsibility. I have a personal and professional commitment to Dominican football, and we are here to give it our all.<\/p><cite>Yelena Hazim Figuereo<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nOriginally from San Pedro de Macor\u00eds, Hazim holds a degree in Political Science and a doctorate in International Private Law and Dispute Resolution Methods. In addition, she has a master&#8217;s degree in International Sports Law and worked with the Puerto Rican Football Federation before joining the FDF.\n\nHappy to be back home. Eager to help and work for our football. As long as we all row in the same direction, we can achieve great things.\n\nMattias Grafstr\u00f6m, FIFA Secretary General, contacted Hazim to congratulate her and wish her success in her management.\n\nThe current Executive Committee of the FDF, led by Jos\u00e9 Francisco Deschamps, is in the 2024-2028 management period.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yelena Hazim Figuereo Makes History at the Head of the Dominican Football Federation The Dominican Football Federation (FDF) announced the appointment of Yelena Hazim Figuereo as its new general secretary. This appointment marks a significant milestone in the history of Dominican football, as Hazim becomes the first woman to hold this position in more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[9237,2123,11029,11030],"class_list":{"0":"post-94782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-fdf","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-secretary-general","11":"tag-yelena-hazim"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}