Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Where now for the FA?
Last week he was in KL visiting AFC House mouthing meaningless platitudes. On Wednesday he was appointed to the Indonesian Parliament and on Thursday he was sentenced to 2 years porridge. After lying low for a few days the gentleman concerned is now serving his sentence.
Little enough seems to come from the FA anyway, it's difficult to see how the big cheese doing time will make any difference to its operations.
There is an AFC sponsored initiative called Vision Indonesia...
There is a plan somewhere to have Indonesia a major player in world football by 2020...
There is a plan somewhere to have Indonesia in FIFA's top 100 ranked nation's next year without a ball being kicked in anger...
Maybe there were games against Valencia, Uruguay and UAE being arranged...
Meanwhile week in week out games are held up by fans throwing water bottles on the pitch...
Referees are abused and assaulted on the pitch...
No one can buy an Indonesian national team shirt...
A Liga Super is due to start next season...
Local government funding for clubs is going to dry up...
The day is not far off when tobacco advertising will be banned...
You might think the game here needs leadership. From where?
UPDATE from Jakarta Post. You gotta read the last paragraph!
Soccer authority happy to keep jailed boss
Matheos Messakh, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The Indonesian Soccer Association (PSSI) has no plan to replace chairman Nurdin Halid, who has been sentenced to two years in jail for corruption, an executive in the organization said Tuesday.
"There is no problem with the organization (with Nurdin's arrest). We do not rely on an individual chairman, but members of the executive committee," PSSI secretary-general Nugraha Besoes said, while referring to a newly established committee overseeing the day-to-day running of the organization.
"Until now we have no plan to substitute Pak Nurdin, and maybe there will be no replacement," he added.
Besoes added that even objections from soccer fans would not be enough reason to replace the PSSI chairman.if the 449 chapters of PSSI file objections, we might consider replace him," he said.
Nurdin, who took the PSSI's helm in 2003, was reelected for his second four-year term during the PSSI's annual meeting in April.
Besoes compared PSSI's situation to that of the Indonesian Amateur Athletics Association (PASI) when chairman Bob Hassan served almost three years in Nusakambangan Prison for graft, from March 2001 to February 2004, adding that PASI had continued to exist and perform its duties while its chairman was in jail.
Asked whether the incarceration of the chairman would ruin the image of the PSSI, Besoes said: "There is no need to worry about it. The image of the state is already bad, after all."
Little enough seems to come from the FA anyway, it's difficult to see how the big cheese doing time will make any difference to its operations.
There is an AFC sponsored initiative called Vision Indonesia...
There is a plan somewhere to have Indonesia a major player in world football by 2020...
There is a plan somewhere to have Indonesia in FIFA's top 100 ranked nation's next year without a ball being kicked in anger...
Maybe there were games against Valencia, Uruguay and UAE being arranged...
Meanwhile week in week out games are held up by fans throwing water bottles on the pitch...
Referees are abused and assaulted on the pitch...
No one can buy an Indonesian national team shirt...
A Liga Super is due to start next season...
Local government funding for clubs is going to dry up...
The day is not far off when tobacco advertising will be banned...
You might think the game here needs leadership. From where?
UPDATE from Jakarta Post. You gotta read the last paragraph!
Soccer authority happy to keep jailed boss
Matheos Messakh, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The Indonesian Soccer Association (PSSI) has no plan to replace chairman Nurdin Halid, who has been sentenced to two years in jail for corruption, an executive in the organization said Tuesday.
"There is no problem with the organization (with Nurdin's arrest). We do not rely on an individual chairman, but members of the executive committee," PSSI secretary-general Nugraha Besoes said, while referring to a newly established committee overseeing the day-to-day running of the organization.
"Until now we have no plan to substitute Pak Nurdin, and maybe there will be no replacement," he added.
Besoes added that even objections from soccer fans would not be enough reason to replace the PSSI chairman.if the 449 chapters of PSSI file objections, we might consider replace him," he said.
Nurdin, who took the PSSI's helm in 2003, was reelected for his second four-year term during the PSSI's annual meeting in April.
Besoes compared PSSI's situation to that of the Indonesian Amateur Athletics Association (PASI) when chairman Bob Hassan served almost three years in Nusakambangan Prison for graft, from March 2001 to February 2004, adding that PASI had continued to exist and perform its duties while its chairman was in jail.
Asked whether the incarceration of the chairman would ruin the image of the PSSI, Besoes said: "There is no need to worry about it. The image of the state is already bad, after all."
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I read this on newspaper. Err why can't the people do something about this? I mean how's the organization structure of the so called FA (Frison Association)? Did all the members of that FA remain quiet ?
Hi Cherry
i think the attitude of many is that nurdin was unlucky., he got caught!
noone wants to kick up a fuss unless they come under the spotlight...
i think the attitude of many is that nurdin was unlucky., he got caught!
noone wants to kick up a fuss unless they come under the spotlight...
seems like exactly the same thing that has gone on at the supreme court. bagir won't get sacked cos the other judges are making too much money being corrupt under him. prob same with the pssi...
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