The Secretary-General of the General Authority for Sport, Saeed Abdul Ghaffar, described the loss of the UAE's candidate in the AFC Executive Committee's election, the President of the Football Association, Marwan bin Ghalita, and the loss of all Emirates' foreign positions as "painful" Good coordination, arrangement, coordination and preparation for the elections, pointing out that the candidate of the Football Federation lost in the face of the heads of the Union of countries does not have a professional league, at a time when the Gulf Arab League ranked first in Asia by the AFC.
"We have a passport that is the first in the world, but in return, the UAE football has no representatives in foreign sporting events," Abdul Ghaffar said in a press statement yesterday.
"We have to build strong foreign relations with all sports federations. The new law on sport has set out all the special conditions and criteria that must be met in the person who is running for foreign sports."
"The figures for the electoral process in the AFC Executive Office clearly indicate that there was no prior coordination or coordination in the UAE candidate's file with the national federations in Asia. What does it mean for the UEFA candidate to get 18 votes, The AFC's top-ranked player is the best professional league in Asia, while there are more competitive candidates for our candidate who won more votes, and they do not have a professional league, which is not a reduction of them, it means we did not coordinate the electoral process properly. "
"There is a great contradiction between being the top seed in Asia for the professional league and at the same time we have no representative in the AFC."
"It is very shameful to be my first UAE passport and to travel to any country without an entry visa. At the same time, we do not have any representatives in the biggest foreign sporting events, the AFC or the international football. What happened in the AFC elections should be the starting point for starting better now for the next election cycle, by combining the efforts and integration of the roles of everyone. We should benefit from the lesson that took place recently in these elections, through the agreement and consensus on the candidates, Who are paid for Scarcity of foreign sports positions, and to support any person nominated for these positions, from higher interest and the interest of the UAE, in whole and move away from patronage and personal courtesies and settle accounts ».
"We are all, as a sports system, responsible for what happened," he said.
"Everyone should participate in supporting the UAE candidates for foreign sports positions, whether the General Authority for Sport, the National Olympic Committee, sports councils, federations, clubs and media, as of the next election cycle, through work and coordination."
Abdul Ghaffar stressed the importance of having an agreement on certain candidates to push them to run for foreign sports posts, saying that the country is full of men who have foreign relations in the field of sports, stressing that it is their right as athletes to be the sport of the UAE representatives in foreign sports positions, The largest football organization in the world, considering that they have the right to rejoice, and to have representatives in these foreign sports forums.
Continued suspension of financial support from the Football Association
The Secretary-General of the General Authority for Sport, Saeed Abdul Ghaffar, announced the continuation of the Commission in its decision to stop the monthly financial support of the Football Federation, as of last November, until the conditions are reconciled, and the commitment to implement the executive regulation of non-duplication of sports positions, as this leads to conflict of interest, Strongly object to the dictatorship, or be imposed on the Union any solution, and the option in this regard is left to the Union of the ball, and the members concerned, to choose between the Union or clubs, stressing that the amounts to be deducted from the Union, if the situation will not be Returned This will apply to all concerned federations, not just the Football Federation, and calls on all sports federations to commit themselves to preventing the duplication of sports positions.
"The importance of everyone's readiness for the next stage of change, because it is the year of life, and the succession of generations is normal," Abdul Ghaffar stressed.
"I am surprised that some people have asked the Commission in earlier times to implement the law and regulations. When they started to implement this, they did not like the situation and demanded that the unions be given an opportunity to complete their current electoral session."
He added that «the designated sports federations have been granted until the end of the current session, in order to meet their requirements and laws, in accordance with the requirements of the Commission, and any sports union does not match the situation, will be stopped financial support from him immediately».
- Dorina is the first Asian class, and we have no representative in the Continental Union.
- Build strong external relations with all sports federations.
- There are competitive candidates who won more votes, and have no professional league.
- We all, as a mathematical system, take responsibility for what happened.