Kiaora (Greetings).
My name is Siena and I hail from Aotearoa, aka New Zealand. I have been an avid opponent of Mohamed Bin Hammam only for the reason that I saw him as a 'Bully' and 'Arrogant' person.
The following demands were reportedly sent by the AFC to Football Federation Australia (FFA):
- Wellington Phoenix FC should be officially registered as a commercial entity in Australia under local law.
- To comply with the provisions of the Regulations, the number of foreign players (non-Australian) in Wellington Phoenix FC should be the same as in other clubs participating in the A-League. In case Wellington Phoenix qualifiy for the ACL, the 3+1 system should be implemented by the club according to the ACL Regulations.
- Otherwise, Wellington Phoenix FC should belong to the second division of the A-League, which should be newly created by the FFA.
The AFC has said that if Wellington don’t severely limit the number of non-Australian players in their team, the A-League will lose its two AFC Champions League spots from 2012 on (after the expiration of the A-League’s current participation deal with the AFC). This would classify players from New Zealand as foreigners on a team based in New Zealand.
Hold an axe over the Head of the FFA - The audacity of the man! In a post typical of the reaction, Michael Brown of the New Zealand Herald says Bin Hammam is “bullying” Phoenix.
...and the AFC handled the dispute abysmally, with the news report from the Confederation on the issue removed from their website a day after publication, with no explanation provided....Gutless!
No Phoenix, no World Cup qualification. This is the pathway that was missing in 1981, the pathway that could take football across the Tasman to places it could only have dreamt of before property developer Terry Serepisos had his famous epiphany in a barber’s chair in early 2007 and bought a licence no one else wanted.
Serepisos is the best owner in the A-League, but now his $10 million investment is under threat. The A-League operates under the umbrella of the Asian Football Confederation, and AFC boss Mohamed Bin Hammam has never liked having a team from another confederation in his midst. For the past 18 months, he’s been white-anting the Phoenix, and now he’s finally made his move. Sooner or later, this had to come to a head.
The FFA and Wellington ought to be able to find a work-around for this, but it may require the involvement of FIFA to solve a dispute between confederations, meaning the politics will only get an awful lot messier.
Well we all know what occurred, don't we and I believe it has occurred again..to Mohamed Bin Hammam.. Well what goes around, comes around...Mohamed received his JUST Desserts AGAIN!
Take that you 'Son of a Bitch!
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