PUTRAJAYA, Aug 4 — Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin who held a meeting with the Football Association of Malaysia’s (FAM) top brass today to find a formula that can resolve the country’s football fortunes, emerged from the meeting empty handed.
Khairy said he had tabled the proposed formula to the FAM during an hour long meeting after receiving the consent of FAM president Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah last week.
He said the contents of the formula involved the FAM leadership and road map to ensure the future of football in the country.
“I believe a specific result would be announced on Aug 15, at the FAM exco meeting. I feel the exco should make the decision and announce it.
“The only setback is that there is uncertainty in the FAM leadership since the President had announced that he would allow someone else to take over. So we should have a formula going forward,” he told reporters at his office here today.
Meanwhile, FAM deputy president Datuk Seri Afandi Hamzah when met after the meeting said the minister had put forward a number of proposals but did not reveal the proposed formula.
Afandi said a decision regarding the proposed formula and a decision on Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah’s intention to step down as the FAM president would be discussed during the coming exco meeting and an announcement made. — Bernama
