Ithuru Vaahaka
Episode 6: Can Maldivian football be fixed?
With football at a standstill, FAM is now under a FIFA-appointed committee.
11 Jul, 4:53 PM
In this week’s episode of Ithuru Vaahaka, we sit down with Ismail Ciman, one of the three members of the FIFA-appointed normalisation committee now overseeing the Football Association of Maldives.
With domestic football stalled and the association mired in debt, the committee has been tasked with getting things back on track. But can the sport recover from years of mismanagement, or is the system beyond repair?
0:40 - What is the FAM normalisation committee? What is it that you are normalising?
1:10 - Why did FIFA intervene in such a dramatic fashion?
3:25 - FAM Elections
4:15 - What is the extent of corruption and embezzlement at FAM?
6:30 - “…the worst FIFA has seen in recent times”
8:20 - Where was the sports ministry? Audit office? Police?
9:15 - Government overreach and influence
10:30 - ‘The Mahloof Connection’
11:05 - Can FAM finally afford to pay electricity bills?
12:15 - Prospects for access to finance in the future
13:50 - The audit report
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