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Jane Novak's blog about Yemen

Even the Soccer Team

Filed under: Yemen — by Jane Novak at 10:03 pm on Friday, August 12, 2005

SFG They just can’t help themselves anymore, its become a compulsive thing. Everything in Yemen is tampered with, including soccer:

The suspension takes effect immediately and includes all matches involving Yemen’s national and club sides playing abroad, as well as matches involving foreign teams played in the country.

“On several occasions both FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation had warned the Yemeni Ministry of Youth and Sport that it needed to respect FIFA’s principles of independence, democracy and due process for its member associations,” FIFA said in a statement.

But “the government chose a path of persistent disrespect of these principles,” world soccer’s governing body added. “Blatant governmental interference in local football affairs in contravention of FIFA principles cannot be accepted.”

dictotards (retarded dictatorial regime)

update: Yemeni football officials deny any knowledge of the latest decision of suspension made by the FIFA.

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