Soccer Punch
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
OFFICIAL interventions are usually unwelcome, but the move by the youth and sports minister to suspend the All-Indonesia Football Association (PSSI) is a positive sign. Established in 1930, the association was intended to fight suppression but today the PSSI is suspected to be strongly controlled by bribery, manipulated scores and gambling. As a result, even at the regional level-forget international tourneys-PSSI has become nothing more than an object of mockery.
OFFICIAL interventions are usually unwelcome, but the move by the youth and sports minister to suspend the All-Indonesia Football Association (PSSI) is a positive sign. Established in 1930, the association was intended to fight suppression but today the PSSI is suspected to be strongly controlled by bribery, manipulated scores and gambling. As a result, even at the regional level-forget international tourneys-PSSI has become nothing more than an
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