World football governing
body, FIFA, has rejected the adoptive constitution of The Gambia Football
Association. It also tasked the Normalisation Committee to interpret the
statutes of the FA in a way as to ensure that only clubs “which played regular
GFA competitions” can participate in the General Assembly and thus be part of
any statutes revision of electoral process.
In a press release sent to Marketplace Sports desk, GFA Media
Officer Bakary B Baldeh writing under the directive of the GFA Normalisation
Committee, revealed that following the December 8th, 2012 Adoptive Congress,
the world football governing body has finally written to the GFA about their
verdict on the congress. The draft constitution,which was put before delegates
incorporated all the substantiated changes to the constitution and “accepted by
FIFA, CAF and government and finally sent to FIFA was placed before delegates
for voting at the Friendship Hostel hall on December 8th, 2013”.