Syed Saddiq wants politicians to stay out of sports associations

One for the album: Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman posing for a photograph during the NSC gallery launching ceremony yesterday. — SHAARI CHEMAT/The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman does not want politicians to be involved in sports associations in the future.

“I want to make changes in sports associations. There are so many politicians in sports and athletes welfare is not taken care off,” said Syed Saddiq after a briefing with the National Sports Council (NSC), National Sports Institute (ISN) and Malaysian Stadiums Board officials in Bukit Jalil yesterday.