The man credited with masterminding the recently concluded World Cup has already began life after the finals.

Last week he announced that he was joining FIFA's inspection team, who will decide on the hosts for the event in 2018 and 2022, with Australia, Japan, Russia, England and the United States all in the running, as well as joint bids from Spain and Portugal, and Belgium and Holland.

But the SAFA, who Jordaan is still affiliated with, have decided they want him representing them on the global stage and are now set to take the first steps towards seeing him become president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

"We want to put him as a candidate to represent us in the CAF Committee," the organisation's vice-president Mwelo Nonkonyana told Press Association Sport.

"That is our position and we have made him aware of that.

"This is not the only place we want him, but would like to see him involved at FIFA as well, again as a representative of SAFA. This is a collective decision that has been taken by SAFA."

Issa Hayatou is the current head of African football and has been at the helm for more than 20 years.

However, the Cameroonian has lost plenty of popularity in recent years and was particularly criticised for the way in which he handled a terrorist attack on the Togo national team at the African Nations Cup in Angola earlier this year.

But Nonkonyana insists that Jordaan's nomination for the presidency will depend a lot on the general consensus of other federations as well as the position of Hayatou.

He continued: "We have not yet decided who we will back. We want to first find out from other national federations what their positions are on the presidency.

"If we then learn that Issa Hayatou is not going to stand for re-election, we would then naturally back Danny for the role.

"We need to see what the viewpoints are and if we feel that there is someone fit and proper to take over from Issa then that will be fine.

"We will back him, be it Danny Jordaan or some other senior administrator in Africa.

"But we will only determine this at that point in time and again because now it is very, very early stage and no nominations have yet been put forward."

Only last year Hayatou was re-elected for a new four-year term, meaning that any promotion for Jordaan, who was chief executive officer of the 2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC), will have to wait until 2013.

Nonkonyana confirmed that Jordaan was aware of their stance and added: "The initial move is to get him into CAF, from there we will have to see what happens.

"This is for 2013 and in the longer term. Naturally we would love for it to happen. But for now we would like him to be part of the executive."