{"id":85225,"date":"2017-07-19T09:32:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T09:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/protest-against-afghanistan-football-federation-bosses\/"},"modified":"2017-07-19T09:32:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T09:32:30","slug":"protest-against-afghanistan-football-federation-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/protest-against-afghanistan-football-federation-bosses\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest against Afghanistan Football Federation bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/July\/19\/fotbal.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Scores of footballers from Khost, Paktia and Logar provinces took to the streets in Kabul on Wednesday against alleged monopoly at the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF).<\/p>\n<p>Chanting slogans against the AFF President Syed Karamuddin Karim and others, the footballers called for long-due elections to be held swiftly. They charged the AFF leadership for monopoly and taking the federation as hostage. They also urged the government to take action against it.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noticing the legal term of AFF President Karamuddin has ended over a year ago. A while ago, Haroon Popal, a candidate for the AAF presidency, approached the Federation to submit his nomination papers, but was charged with &lsquo;political interference&rsquo;.&nbsp; Representatives from at least 20 provincial football federations have sent a letter to FIFA to push for elections at the AFF, and stopping Karamuddin from seeking re-appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Yosuf Kargar, technical adviser at the AFF, has told the media that the reason behind delay in elections at the Federation are &lsquo;political interference&rsquo;. He said until this issue is resolved, holding fresh elections is not possible.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Scores of footballers from Khost, Paktia and Logar provinces took to the streets in Kabul on Wednesday against alleged monopoly at the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}