The brand of the Korea Soccer Affiliation (KFA) is seen on the signboard outdoors the KFA Home in Seoul. Yonhap
The election for president of the nationwide soccer governing physique, postponed a number of instances resulting from procedural points, has been rescheduled for Feb. 26.
The Korea Soccer Affiliation (KFA) introduced late Monday evening that its new election administration committee had settled on the brand new date after its first assembly held earlier within the day.
Additional particulars of the brand new election day will probably be decided following the committee’s subsequent assembly Saturday, the KFA added.
Chung Mong-gyu, a candidate within the election for Korea Soccer Affiliation (KFA) president, speaks throughout a press convention on the KFA Home in Seoul, Dec. 26, 2024. Yonhap
All three candidates will stay within the race: Chung Mong-gyu, who’s going for his fourth time period; Huh Jung-moo, former head coach of the Korean males’s nationwide group; and Shin Moon-sun, former participant and tv commentator who teaches sports activities information evaluation at Myongji College in Seoul. The KFA mentioned it won’t settle for any new candidates.
Chung’s standing had been up within the air lately, with the deadline approaching for the KFA to behave on a requirement by the sports activities ministry to penalize Chung primarily based on the findings of the ministry’s monthslong probe into the KFA’s operations final 12 months. Nonetheless, the KFA introduced Saturday it had filed an administrative swimsuit on the Seoul Central District Courtroom on Jan. 21 to nullify the ministry’s demand to no less than droop Chung.
Whereas awaiting the court docket’s ruling, the KFA has determined to withhold its choice on Chung and allowed him to remain within the election. If Chung had been suspended, he would have been dominated ineligible.
The election was set to happen Jan. 8 however was postponed on the eve of that day when the Seoul Central District Courtroom granted an injunction filed by Huh to cease the proceedings. Huh had raised points with the composition of the KFA’s election administration committee and questioned its impartiality, and in addition claimed the KFA intentionally tried to exclude a sure group of voters from the electoral school.
Huh Jung-moo, a candidate within the election for Korea Soccer Affiliation (KFA) president, speaks throughout a press convention outdoors the KFA Home in Seoul, Jan. 22. Yonhap
On Jan. 9, the KFA introduced the election could be held Jan. 23, however each Huh and Shin mentioned that they had by no means agreed to the brand new schedule. The election was then postponed indefinitely when all eight members of the election administration committee resigned Jan. 10.
The brand new election committee is made up of 11 people: three former officers of the Nationwide Election Fee (NEC), three from the authorized discipline, three from the media and two from academia. Park Yeong-soo, former NEC secretary-general, was named the top of the committee Monday.
Per KFA guidelines, no less than two-thirds of the election committee members should be unbiased figures who don’t have any affiliation with the soccer physique. The committee mentioned 10 of its 11 new members had been introduced in from the skin, primarily based on suggestions by organizations with no ties to the KFA.
The electoral school will probably be assembled in a random draw and can embody officers of regional soccer our bodies, energetic gamers, coaches and referees. The pool will probably be made up of those that had signed their privateness consent kinds throughout a three-week interval that ended Sunday.
When granting Huh’s injunction request in January, the Seoul court docket identified that the KFA committee had violated its election guidelines by asking folks chosen for the electoral school to signal their privateness kinds as an alternative of asking all eligible voters to signal them earlier than the random draw.
The election committee mentioned it picked Feb. 26 out of consideration for the match schedules of gamers, coaches and officers.
The brand new Okay League season kicks off Feb. 15, and the league stage for the Asian Soccer Confederation Champions League Elite match will resume subsequent Tuesday and wrap up Feb. 19, with the knockout stage set to begin March 4. (Yonhap)
