PETALING JAYA: The FIFA Appeal Committee have rejected arguments by seven players suspended in the Football Association of Malaysia’s (FAM) mixed heritage scandal, ruling that they were not passive victims but benefitted directly from forged documents that enabled them to represent Malaysia.
In their motivated decision released on Tuesday (Nov 18) morning, the committee stated that the players’ claim that FAM were responsible for the entire naturalisation and eligibility process "fails to recognise a fundamental legal and factual truth: the beneficiary of a naturalisation process is the individual being naturalised."
