Incumbent leadership questions eligibility of outside candidate
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/05
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – World soccer’s top body, FIFA, is sending a delegation to Taiwan
Taiwan’s national soccer team and CTFA officials following last December’s victory against Laos. (By Central News Agency)
to look at a leadership dispute within the local football association, reports said Thursday.
Amid government legislation to make sports associations more democratic, the Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA, 中華民國足球協會) has been wracked by differences about the eligibility of candidates for its chairmanship.
At the center of the dispute was Chiou I-jen (邱義仁), chairman of the Taiwan-Japan Relations Association and a veteran politician of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party.
The CTFA was to have held elections for a new head on March 17, but the incumbent leadership rejected Chiou’s candidacy as invalid because he was not a member of the association in the first place. [FULL STORY]