Erick Thohir back said that PSSI currently filled with dirty hands. He also compared it to State-Owned Enterprises, which are supervised by the ministry he leads.
Erick is one of the candidates who will advance to the election for the PSSI Extraordinary Congress in the middle of this month. The SOE Minister is claimed to have pocketed as many as 60 votes from the voters.
At registration, Erick revealed that PSSI had a lot of dirty hands. Therefore, he will clean up as he did when he served as Minister of SOEs.
Erick again touched on the matter of match fixing, especially the one involving the Indonesian National Team. He also emphasized that there would be no mercy for those who carried out this practice.
“There have been a lot of theories right, that this is like this, this theory, this theory. I have repeated this, this requires guts. To come back, clean up. We have to create clean and accomplished football,” said Erick when interviewed by reporters at a hotel in Senayan, Jakarta.
“This is what we are trying to create, but again, this is what determines the voters. If it turns out that the voters don’t have confidence in me, so what? It’s also a business. An effort to improve Indonesian football which has been dirty for too long.”
“Just like when I entered BUMN, the perception was that I like to jail people. That’s not it. Jiwasraya, Asabri, Garuda, we are carrying out legal proceedings because they are too vicious. Pension money is corrupted, this is the same.”
“If football is being traded, what’s more, the National Team has won here, then played in another country, then loses. Remember that incident, and it’s clear that it was paid for, there’s no penalty, it’s not allowed. If the Red and White have been toyed with like it’s dead set,” he said Erick add.
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