FIFA THREATENS TO SEEK DAMAGES AGAINST KUWAIT!!!

Football’s world governing body FIFA has joined the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in threatening to seek damages against Kuwait authorities as a sporting and Governmental dispute in the country continues to intensify. Kuwait remains ostracised from international sport after a new law led to the dissolution of existing bodies including the Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC) and the Kuwait Football Association (KFA), and their replacement with Government-backed rivals. In a letter faxed to the KFA “Interim Committee” chair Fawaz Mubarak Abdulaziz aI-Hassawi,  FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura condemns the setting up of the rival body. FIFA secretary general, Fatma Samoura .She also criticised the holding of an Extraordinary General Assembly yesterday where, prbxselfnetwork sports has been told, the membership of two football clubs was cancelled and another one was added in what has been interpreted as an attempt to control the voting power of the organisation. This violates FIFA Statute requirements for independence, Samoura warned, before threatening to pursue damages in response to alleged “illegal acts”. “FIFA continues to exclusively recognise the current President of the KFA, Sheikh Talal Fahad AI-Sabah, and the current secretary general, Saho AI-Shammari, as the duly elected and, respectively, authorised representatives of the KFA notwithstanding its current suspension by FIFA,” the Senegalese official writes in a letter seen by  insidethegames. “Furthermore, we reiterate that we recognise aII current members of the KFA as being duly affiliated to the KFA. “FIFA will not accept any of its members to establish contact or sporting relations with the Government-appointed officials who claim to be representing the KFA. “Moreover, FIFA will not recognise any action or decision taken by the Government authorities or by the appointed “Interim Committee” in contradiction to the FIFA, Asian Football Confederation or KFA Statutes. “PIease be informed that FIFA hereby reserves all its rights to take any action against all those who have been involved in any way, directly or indirectly, in the establishment as well as any other activities of the “interim committee” in violation of the FIFA Statutes.***prbxselfnetwork***