14 May 2016

National suspensions by FIFA

At the sixty-sixth FIFA Congress three nations learn their suspension fate before their next tournaments.
Indonesia have more rights to be happy from the other two nations as their suspension is off. After a government interference, one of biggest Asia football markets, Indonesian ban was lifter today in Mexico City. They lost two valuable competitions already, the Asian World Cup qualifying campaign in Russia 2018 together with Asian qualifiers for 2019 with the clubs also banned for entering cup competitions with the domestic league season cancelled. Now everything is relieved as Indonesia FA can turn to future projects. But we cannot say the same for Kuwait. Unable to operate independently, being suspended from October Kuwait FA already lost Asia World Cup qualifiers over this ban. Finished in third place at the qualifiers, Kuwait is still on route to Asian Cup 2019 but will they be able to participate in time that is the real question. Representatives from Kuwait clubs traveled to Mexico City to overturn the suspension but without success. Because of governmental interference the International Olympic Committee banned the country for the same reasons.
The only African nation in this trio completes Benin who unfortunately is suspended. They cannot play world football for the same reason meaning that Benin cannot resume its play at the African Cup of Nation qualifiers. At the beginning of June they scheduled to play Equatorial Guinea.

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