{"id":274345,"date":"2016-12-05T08:33:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T08:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=274345"},"modified":"2016-12-05T08:33:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T08:33:14","slug":"south-sudan-fa-board-suspend-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=274345","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan FA board suspend President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"story-body\" class=\"story-body sp-story-body gel-body-copy\">\n<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">The president of the South Sudan Football Association (SSFA), Chabur Goc Alei, says he is determined to clear his name after he was suspended by the FA&#8217;s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>The board decided during an emergency extraordinary general meeting on Wednesday that Alei should step aside because of alleged financial impropriety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes it is true the board of directors of the SSFA have suspended me, but I am ready to defend myself and even quit football,&#8221; Alei told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p>The South Sudan FA vice president, Andrea Abdella, has taken over the presidency until the next election in March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>However, the board has decided that Alei can speak in his own defence during a forthcoming General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We shall pick a date for the assembly at which Alei can defend himself on all the matters,&#8221; said South Sudan FA Deputy Secretary General Domasio Ajongo who added that they have also communicated the developments to Fifa and are awaiting a response from football&#8217;s world governing body.<\/p>\n<p>Alei came to office in 2012 and survived being ousted in July 2017 before Fifa intervened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the South Sudan Football Association (SSFA), Chabur Goc Alei, says he is determined to clear his name after he was suspended by the FA&#8217;s board of directors. The board decided during an emergency extraordinary general meeting on Wednesday that Alei should step aside because of alleged financial impropriety. &#8220;Yes it is true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":274346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[14139,337,14140,14141,14142],"class_list":["post-274345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-african-news","tag-fifa","tag-football-association","tag-sudan-fa","tag-sudan-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}