Walid Abdullah
The Asian Football Confederation is preparing to hold the 35th edition of the General Assembly meeting “Congress” of the Federation, which is scheduled to be chaired by Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, President of the Asian Football Association, First Vice President of the International Football Association, on Saturday, April 12th in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.
The Asian Football Confederation committees intensified their efforts to hold this meeting, which comes after a year of the 34th meeting of the General Assembly of the Continental Federation, which was held in the Thai capital, Bangkok in May 2024, which witnessed the election of Megona Mohamed Eliava from Tajikistan as a member of the Executive Committee of the Asian Football Association for the central region, and the election of Chong Mong Gio of the South Korean Republic as a member of the Executive Committee About the eastern region.
The proposals that were received from members of the members of the modification/ removal of “according to the necessary” were approved, Articles 32.8 and 32.9, in addition to one of the transitional rulings from the Asian Football Association’s articles of association.
He also witnessed the delivery of the distinguished service prizes in the Asian Football Confederation to the First Vice President of the Asian Football Confederation Zao Zao and the son of the former president of the Singaporean Football Association Lim Kia Tong, and Dr. Veronica Chan Yiio Kam of Hong Kong Chinese AFC Award for Life Achievement.
The thirty -fifth general assembly meeting will witness a discussion of many files related to the reports of the committees and development files for educational, technical and arbitration programs, which contribute to the advancement of the Asian football system.
The Continental Union, headed by Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, attaches great attention to holding a general assembly meeting, because of its great importance in reviewing the qualitative leaps that the Federation achieved during the previous period, which contributed to the acquisition of Asian football as a distinguished presence at the level of world football, in addition to the importance of such meetings in enhancing cooperation and partnership relations between the Asian Federation and national federations, in order to achieve the interest and development of football at the level of the Asian continent.
The meetings of the General Assembly of the Asian Football Confederation since the assumption of Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa assumed the presidency of the Federation, smoothly and smoothly in dealing with and discussing all topics and files on the agenda, and this reflects the consensual situation between the continental union and the member federations in drawing the desired goals, in the form that achieves more successes for the Asian ball.
