adminThe Korea Football Association, which caused a great controversy by suddenly pardoning 100 soccer players who were in disciplinary action for involvement in match-fixing, eventually withdrew the full extent due to strong opposition. It was a comical skit that will be recorded as an all-time ‘missing shot’ that is hard to come back in Korean soccer history over 100 years ago. In this process, it was revealed that the Korea Football Association violated not only the articles of association they had created, but also the articles of association of the Korea Sports Council, a higher-level organization. 안전놀이터
On October 23, 2020, the Korea Sports Association sent an official document containing the decision made at the 40th board of directors to the affiliated sports organizations and the national sports associations on October 30, 2020, a week later. Its contents are as follows.
Each sports organization that received this official letter from the Korea Sports Council reflected it in their own Sports Fair Committee regulations. For example, the Korea Ice Skating Federation revised its own Sports Fair Committee regulations on November 19, 2020, 20 days after receiving the official notice, and reflected the instructions of the Korea Sports Council as follows.
However, the Korea Football Association has not fulfilled the instructions of the Korea Sports Council until now, 2 years and 5 months later. <Korea Football Association Sports Fair Committee Regulations> was last revised on September 22, 2020. It was about a month ago from the time when the Korea Sports Council regulations changed (October 23, 2020). So, the Korea Football Association is still using the September 2020 regulations. In this version, there is no content that the disciplinary action cannot be reduced for the 4 major irregularities. The Korea Football Association admits that it did not reflect the Korea Sports Council’s instructions in its own rules, but it is still silent about the reason why it did not reflect it.
However, it is clearly stated in the Articles of Association of the Korea Sports Council.
And this provision is also stated in the articles of association of the Korea Football Association.
If the Korea Sports Association changes its articles of incorporation or regulations and instructs each affiliated sports organization and the national sports association, the sports organization and the sports association have an obligation to follow it. This is clearly stated in the Articles of Association of the Korea Football Association. However, the Football Association has not fulfilled the instructions of the Korea Sports Council even after 2 years and 5 months. In preparation for cases where a sports organization affiliated with the Korea Olympic Committee, that is, a member organization, does not fulfill its duties, the <Articles of Association of the Korea Olympic Committee> contains the following information.
<Article 10, Paragraph 2 of the Articles of Association of the Korea Olympic Committee> states that the member sports organization has the duty to comply with the Articles of Association and its regulations of the Korea Olympic Committee. In conclusion, it is an immovable fact that the Korea Football Association did not fulfill its obligations to comply with the Korea Sports Council’s regulations revision instructions. Furthermore, Chung Mong-gyu, president of the Korea Football Association, has been serving as vice president of the Korea Sports Association since 2017. The thing is, you can’t be ignorant of this situation.
The only thing left now is the discipline of the Korea Sports Council. If the Korea Sports Association does not or cannot impose any disciplinary action on the Korea Football Association this time, it will not be able to prevent the Korea Sports Association from falling in phase, even if a worse situation occurs in the future.