Monday, June 02, 2008

When Politics Gets In The Way With Sports

This Champions Youth Cup (CYC) tournament organized at a tune of MYR17million annually with the inaugural played in 2007 which was organized by Ministry of Youth and Sports and promoter Gifted Group Limited (GGL).

The Minister who initiated this had washed her hands before handing over to her successor who could only say that his Ministry will re-look into the contract for this year. In the first place, who had signed and brought the tournament here which had also ignored FAM last year and now claiming to be innocent.

Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) declared that they would not recognise this year's tournament scheduled for August 2-16 and whom had declared the MYR17million was a waste here!

GGL had meanwhile claimed that FIFA had sanction this tournament for 3 years beginning 2007 and Chairman of GGL will be in KL to resolve the matter on Tuesday (June 3).

With Chelseas scheduled to make its way here for pre-season friendly on July 29, a problem had been eased with the sacking of Manager, Avram Grant, an Israeli national and Malaysian Government can now breathe a little easier.

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