Fellow competitors have slammed host Malaysia\u2019s proposed format for the upcoming football event at 2017 Southeast Asian Games, citing the possibilities of seeking legal actions to resolve the matter.<\/p>\n
Controversies arose after the event organizer announced the drawing rule for the group stage the past week, which allows the host, Malaysia, to handpick the group after all of the competitors have been drawn.<\/p>\n
Understandably, the rule bails the host from being drawn into the \u201cGroup of Death,\u201d sparking protests from the fellow competitors.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives an unfair advantage for Malaysia,\u201d said Joko Driyono, Indonesia Football Federation General Secretary. \u201cThey should only handpick the seeding to ensure they will play the opening match. PSSI will fill a formal complaint to the ICC and AFF regarding the issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey should only handpick the seeding to ensure they will play the opening match. PSSI will fill a formal complaint to the ICC and AFF regarding the issue”, Joko Driyono said, as quoted by Vietnamese online newspaper VnExpress.<\/a><\/p>\n Laos Football Federation President, Viphet Shiharchack, agrees with Driyono\u2019s arguments:<\/p>\n \u201cWe are caught surprised,\u201d Shiharchack said. \u201cThe drawing format is unacceptable. Laos Olympic Committee and Laos Football Federation will fill a protest to the event organizer. We want a fair game.\u201d<\/p>\n The drawing format is applied to other events at the games, including women\u2019s football, futsal, and volleyball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow competitors have slammed host Malaysia\u2019s proposed format for the upcoming football event at 2017 Southeast Asian Games, citing the possibilities of seeking legal actions to resolve the matter. Controversies arose after the event organizer announced the drawing rule for the group stage the past week, which allows the host, Malaysia, to handpick the group after all of the competitors have been drawn. Understandably, the rule bails the host from being drawn into the \u201cGroup of Death,\u201d sparking protests from the fellow competitors. \u201cIt gives an unfair advantage for Malaysia,\u201d said Joko Driyono, Indonesia Football Federation General Secretary. \u201cThey should only handpick the seeding to ensure they will play the … Continue reading “Fellow competitors slam Malaysia’s SEA Games drawing proposal”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":4925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857,1],"tags":[64,69],"class_list":["post-4923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","category-uncategorized","tag-malaysia","tag-sea-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}