AIFF waives away ban rumours

Officials from the Federation claim that there is no election problem with FIFA at the moment and they were careful to avoid one in the future.

As far as the main clauses of the sports code are concerned, we are not violating them at all. Neither our president nor our treasurer have exceeded two terms and both of them are below the age of 70 (as required under the sports code,” said an anonymous official in the AIFF.

“We have no apathy towards the sports code, we are not averse to it. If it is possible for us and does not make us violate FIFA’s or our own constitution, we don’t have a problem.”

“We are following our own constitution which falls in line with FIFA’s constitution. That is the prime requirement and we have followed that properly. We have to be very careful. FIFA has no age restrictions and they do not want any government interference. There has been many cases where FIFA have banned federations,” the source was quoted as saying to the media.

The AIFF is set for elections in the next few days, but the outcome remains to be unpredictable like the future, which could see them banned if they fail to meet the FIFA criteria.

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