Last week, a five-men group of WBF executives lead by president Howard Goldberg of South Africa headed to Albania to appoint Ylli Ndroqi, one of his countries foremost businessman and huge boxing supporter, as Honory President of the World Boxing Federation. Besides a multitude of business interests, Mr. Ndroqi also is in the process of building up the Albanian professional boxing commission and has turned WBF world middleweight champion Kreshnik Qato into one of his countries’ major all-time sports heroes.
During a ceremony shown live on national television, WBF president Goldberg said about Mr. Ndroqi’s upcoming involvement with his organization:
“The World Boxing Federation wants and needs to surround itself with successful people, people who know what they are doing and, most importantly, get things done. Our good friend Ylli fits this description and we thank him for accepting the position of Honory President, because we know he will be a great asset for us.”
Goldberg, together with vice president Ron Scalf from Tenneessee, also held an executive meeting in Tirana with European Coordinator Olaf Schroeder and executive members Jean-Marcel Nartz and Tonio Tiberi. The biggest news to come out of the meeting is the confirmation that the World Boxing Federation will be holding its first world convention in Tirana on the last weekend of April 2010. Further details will follow shortly on this website.
