Satyanarayan Muthyalu, also known as Satya, is an Indian sports journalist turned football administrator. He serves as the Deputy Secretary General of the All India Football Federation. [1]
Sathya completed his LLB at the National Law School of India University in 1988. He started as a sports journalist with Times of India in 1987 and after a year joined Deccan Herald where he was a reporter for two years, both in Bangalore. Later, he moved to Gulf News Abu Dhabi in October 1997, where he was Deputy Editor for over 15 years. [2]
In July 2023, he was appointed as the Deputy Secretary General of AIFF by its executive committee following the Annual General Meeting in Bengaluru chaired by the president Kalyan Chaubey. [3] [4] Earlier in August 2019, he became the general secretary of the Karnataka State Football Association and later became a member of the I-league committee. [5] He is instrumental in developing women's football in the country. [6]