Gambia: FIFA Rejects Adoptive GFA Constitution

World football governing body, FIFA, has rejected the adoptive constitution of The Gambia Football Association. It also tasked the Normalisation Committee to interpret the statutes of the FA in a way as to ensure that only clubs "which played regular GFA competitions" can participate in the General Assembly and thus be part of any statutes revision of electoral process.

In a press release sent to Observer Sports, GFA Media Officer Bakary B Baldeh writing under the directive of the GFA Normalisation Committee, revealed that following the December 8th, 2012 Adoptive Congress, the world football governing body has finally written to the GFA about their verdict on the congress. The draft constitution,which was put before delegates incorporated all the substantiated changes to the constitution and "accepted by FIFA, CAF and government and finally sent to FIFA was placed before delegates for voting at the Friendship Hostel hall on December 8th, 2013".

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