PSSI has the potential to violate FIFA’s rules regarding naturalization

Jakarta –

There is news that PSSI want to naturalize five teenagers from Brazil. Football observer, Tommy Welly, said PSSI broke the rules FIFA.

So far there have been several Brazilian footballers who have joined Persija Jakarta, Armea FC and Madura United. The players were mentioned as entrusted by PSSI to see if their quality was worthy of being naturalized in order to increase the strength of the Indonesian national team in the 2021 U-20 World Cup.

PSSI denied the accusation through Indra Sjafri as technical director, but representatives of the three clubs had already said that the Brazilian players who came were PSSI’s plan.

The wave of rejection of the PSSI idea was voiced through social media. There are those who think that PSSI is taking away the rights of native Indonesian players, evidence of failing to carry out youth development, to the desire to achieve instant achievement.

Tommy, who is familiarly called Bung Towel, sees it from a different perspective. He indicated that the Brazilian players who had entered Persija, Arema FC and Madura did not deserve to be naturalized because they did not comply with FIFA’s rules.

“If these rumors really happen, PSSI’s actions will be inconsequential,” said Tommy Welly when contacted by reporters, Friday (21/8/2020).

Referring to the FIFA Statute regarding the FIFA Eligibility Rules in article 7, the players do not meet any of the following four conditions: The player is born in the country concerned, one of the player’s biological parents was born in that country, the player’s grandfather or grandmother was born in that country, and the player has lived in the country for five years, starting from the time he reaches 18 years of age.

“If they are half (half) of Indonesian descent, they still have the right to join the national team. But this isn’t it. FIFA’s rules regarding naturalization are also getting stricter. Morally, this is very, very betraying and robbing young people of their hopes of playing in the national team,” he said.

According to Towel, there is no point in naturalizing young players considering the various cases that have occurred.

“Look at Diego Costa, a young man joined the Brazilian youth national team, now a senior joined the Spanish national team. Currently, maybe he could join the Indonesian national team. But he could return to Brazil as a senior.” Bright Towel provides an example.

“This is ridiculous. If the stakeholders are silent, this is nonsense. So I also want to see, stakeholders from football. Just stay quiet and dark or what,” he said.

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