GFA DELEGATES TO DECIDE ON DRAFT DOCUMENT

FIFA Delegate Primo and Alh. Omar Say

Delegates of the Gambia Football Association are to vote on re-adopting the draft constitution tomorrow. Scheduled to take place at the Independence Stadium Friendship Hostel, the adoptive congress is prompted after FIFA’s rejection of the final document where the football governing body later uncovered, upon investigation, that some of the clubs that voted during the December 8^th 2012 adoptive congress –did not at all exist.

 “FIFA having consulted their envoy to The Gambia who witnessed the adoptive congress and other relevant stakeholders that culminated in their Member Associations meeting held in Zurich concluded amongst other items the Gambia’s fate at its last adoptive congress and therefore formally wrote to the GFA to hold another congress under the new dispensation that would allow only legitimate stakeholders (teams that play regular GFA competitions) to partake in the forthcoming adoptive congress” a separate circular from the FA reads.

Last year at the December 8^th gathering, delegates endorsed the blueprint but not without wholesale changes which included voting against the establishment of a regional football league – a thing which according to the Normalisation Committee umbrage FIFA.

Ahead of Saturday’s busy day, the GFA and clubs from the region have been locked in a paper war after the FA’s announcement to trim off a junk of list of voting ‘ghost’ clubs said to be ineligible. The clubs hit back slamming the country’s football governing entity as egocentric and anti-regional football development elements.