July 26, 2007 -- The International Football Federation FIFA has announced on its official web site that Mohamed Raouraoua has been appointed to the FIFA World Cup committee chaired by Cameroon's Issa Hayatou, who also chairs the African Football Confederation. Raouraoua is also a member of FIFA's legal committee.

In addition, Algerian Football Federation chairman Hamid Haddadj was named as a member of FIFA's disciplinary committee. Raouraoua and Haddadj join two other Algerians on FIFA committees, Belaid Lacarne on the referees' committee and Zerguini Abdelmadjid Yacine on the medical committee.