Correspondent
IMPHAL, Jan 20 – It is time out for Asian Football Confederation (AFC) initiated football tourneys in Manipur following current attacks on match referees.
The All Manipur Football Association (AMFA)’s 4th Manipur State League and the 24th Senior Men Inter-district Football Tournamentheld as part of AFC’s football development programme have been suspended since Monday after referees declined to conductmatches following assaults on their colleagues by a player during a match here on January 18.
On January 14, four North Imphal Sports Association (NISA) players were suspended from future matches for entering the field and challenging the referee’s decision.
“This is not the first time we’re being targeted frequently during thematches”, a senior national football referee said. “We decided not to conduct matches showing solidarity to our injured colleague. A memorandum has also been sent to AMFA for necessary action”.
More than 60 football referees, including FIFA and national referees, who want implementation of serious “disciplinary code”, so that such unwanted incident do not occur in the future, will be meeting tomorrow to chalk out their further course of action.
To stabilize the situation and to resume the tourneys, AMFA has put United Sports Association player N Rakesh, who physically assaulted a referee for giving a penalty in a match with NISA on January 18, under suspension for 5 years besides imposing a fine of Rs 10,000.
“A committee is all set to update our ‘Disciplinary Code 2004’ to avoid such unwanted incidents in future”, AMFA’s secretary Ranjoy Roy told The Assam Tribune on Wednesday. “We’ve also decided not to give certificates to those players who show dissent on the field”.
Manipur which is the home of more than a hundred footballers, presently playing for premier football clubs of the country and Delhi, are the only two States selected for AFC’s Vision Asia Project 2006 to nurture international class footballers. ASSAM TRIBUNE
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