{"id":11665,"date":"2010-07-24T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=11665"},"modified":"2010-07-24T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T12:00:21","slug":"sudan-football-could-face-a-global-ban-from-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=11665","title":{"rendered":"Sudan football could face a global ban from football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sudan&#8217;s international football future is at risk over a row between the country&#8217;s football association and the government&#8217;s Sports Commission. <\/strong><em> (Photo: Sudan FA boss Kamal Shaddad is being prevented from standing in elections)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several candidates, including current Sudan FA president Kamal Shaddad, have been told by the commission that they cannot run for forthcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shaddad has been told he is ineligible as he has served two terms of office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fifa, which is opposed to government intervention, has reportedly asked the commission to rethink its stance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They decided to stop me running for re-election as President,&#8221; Mr. Shaddad told the BBC. &#8220;That it against Fifa&#8217;s fundamental rules.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Fifa says they do not approve of this situation, and the Sports Commission must reverse its decision or face suspension.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The FA president is also angry that candidates in this month&#8217;s election must pay a fee, which was originally set at 25,000 Sudanese pounds (about $10,000) before being reduced to 10,000 pounds (about $4,000).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the past world governing body Fifa has banned banned nations for international football due to political interference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigeria faced a similar threat when President Goodluck Jonathan said he would withdraw the team from international football for two years, before backing down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And Kenya and Guinea have been suspended in the past for government interference in football.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fifa has a range of possible punishments if it does decide to sanction Sudanese football, not just suspension.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sudan did not qualify for the last Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, but they were present in Ghana 2006 after a long absence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Africa&#8217;s biggest country is also due to host the next CHAN &#8211; the tournament for locally-based players &#8211; early in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>James Copnall, BBC Sport, Khartoum<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan&#8217;s international football future is at risk over a row between the country&#8217;s football association and the government&#8217;s Sports Commission. (Photo: Sudan FA boss Kamal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[4356,4357],"class_list":["post-11665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-kamal-shaddad","tag-sudan-fa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}