Explanation of the Football Federation about the need to amend the Articles of Association / Rafiei: Article 1 and 86 are the FIFA red line

According to Fars News Agency sports correspondent, Gholamreza Rafiei in his debate today with Ehsan Ghazizadeh Hashemi, a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, said: Ghazizadeh, as a lawyer in sports and a person who has always been a good speaker in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, I can honestly say maybe less To be a respected representative in the parliament who, like Ghazizadeh, has good qualities such as courage, legal education, etc., who exercises good advice and counsel to all officials. My philosophy in coming to the program was to say that lawyers and clients are together, I and others People on the sports program and people have eyes on our lawyer.

He added: “Honestly, Ghazizadeh Hashemi was one of the representatives to strengthen the national team in the Kish army and to prepare the players when Akhvish was the presidential candidate in the elections and when few people hoped that our team could go to the next stage of the World Cup qualifiers.” The national team attended. This is when we say friend and helper in times of trouble. I need to celebrate the World Warrior Day. I must also say that when we have the likes of Takhti, Dehdari, ‌ Hejazi, there are still people who can continue their path. People like Rasool Khadem, Ali Daei, etc. are living beds.

The legal advisor of the Football Federation added: “Before entering into an article of the federation’s statute, I must say that we received bad news in the discussion of professional licenses today. When I see this amount of interest, I have to say that you also see the flaws in the hardware and software of our sports venues, such as Azadi Stadium. I am not a lawyer for Esteghlal and Persepolis clubs, and we should only seek to provide people with happiness and vitality through sports. The biggest problem for the two clubs right now is debt and ownership. Debts to Calderon, Stramaccioni, Wilmots, and dozens of other similar cases stem from a lack of access to finance.

Rafiei added: Ghazizadeh himself, who is the lawyer of all of us in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, is one of the signatories and designers of the proposal to deal with the scourge of sanctions. Yesterday, I read a quote from Haddad Adel on one of the news sites, who said that the sanctions are really crippling for us. The AFC’s biggest zoom was on Persepolis’s debt to Calderon and his assistant. I remember when this resolution went to the Anti-Sanctions Council and the Supreme National Security Council, the parliament, the government and the Supreme National Security Council had to pay Wilmots’s debt. I’m really saying it’s not just a matter of legal and international manpower, I believe that’s part of the problem. In our country of 80 million, it is almost 100 years since the establishment of our oldest law school, except for one optional course in sports law and the fact that we want to have a specialized discussion on this issue.

We pray that the likes of Ghazizadeh will increase in the parliament as a lawyer. Our expert body and manpower have not been able to fill the gaps so far. I ask Ghazizadeh to cooperate and write a letter to the Commission, the Council for the Development of Higher Education and the Minister of Higher Education. One of the requirements of the AFC, which is over 100 pages, is the use of human resources in the legal department. We must seek to train efficient manpower, and we hope that part of this gap will be filled with the help of the parliament and the apparatus.

Regarding the amendment of Article 1 of the Football Federation Statute, he explained: Regarding Article 1 and 86 of the Football Federation Statute, I must say that the executive bodies according to Article 5 of the Civil Service Management Law include companies, government agencies and non-governmental institutions. 53 Amateur Sports Federations have been public non-governmental organizations since 1973 and their statutes have been approved by the government.

“The point of contention now is that FIFA has told us that the Football Federation is the executive branch and subordinate to public non-governmental organizations,” he said. You need to be transparent about this and make the federation a non-governmental organization. Since 2007, when the issue of suspending Iranian football was raised, the statutes of amateur sports federations, which are in 32 articles and approved by the esteemed Cabinet, have not been available in the Football Federation. In fact, the football federation has a special statute that meets the requirements of FIFA at that time. We have not used the statutes of amateur sports federations since that year.

The legal advisor of the Football Federation added: “FIFA had threats regarding Articles 1 and 86. When you are a public non-governmental organization, various issues such as contracts, employment, auctions, tenders, etc. will be included in this law.” After entering the federation and being in the process of doing so, we realized that the legislator’s definition of public non-governmental organizations in 1976 differs from what existed in 1986 as a final law. In fact, he changed the criteria according to a technical discussion last week. We found out that the Minister of Sports has sent a detailed letter to the Islamic Consultative Assembly regarding Article 1 of the Statute, and the government has also submitted a bill. Of course, I doubt whether it is a bill or not, but regardless of what we call it, They investigated the cases.

Rafi’i added: “There is a slight concern in this case and it does not work at all for the transition committee and this does not matter. It is also a concern that the issue is specialized. The statute has fulfilled our commitment and this statute is enforceable. Most importantly, what is the legal nature of a body and whether it is considered an executive body or a public non-governmental body The General Assembly of the Court of Administrative Justice has resolved a large part of the problems with its vote.

Asked whether FIFA has set a deadline of 10 March to amend the Football Federation’s constitution, he said: “FIFA gives the opportunity until March 10, but in our view, as a federation, we will live up to the commitment of the Court of Administrative Justice and other matters.” کرد‌ایم. We believe that we are non-governmental and the minister has recently sent a letter to the parliament and we do not know whether to submit a bill or a request. In order to avoid any ambiguity, we ask the parliament to take action and amend the law on the list of institutions. We can not set a task for the parliament, but we hope that this action will eliminate the excuses of FIFA. We and the Ministry of Sports are of the same opinion. We hope that these cases will be resolved according to the recent letter of the Minister of Sports to the Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly

In response to Ghazizadeh’s remarks on the Sports and People program, the legal adviser of the Football Federation explained: “We do not want to become a private joint stock company, but we want the federation to become a non-governmental organization.” Billions of tomans from the government budget are spent on the expenses of non-governmental organizations. Ghazizadeh was the chairman of the Electoral Research Supervision Council and calculated the time for each candidate in the debates very well. The federation is a non-profit and non-governmental organization. Solve the problem directions.

In response to Judge Hashemi’s complaints that some of his friends were saying things that could not be said anywhere in the world, Rafiei said: “I consider Judge’s a fair man. They were sports. Article 1 of the statutes of amateur sports federations states that they are non-governmental public and according to the same statute, the Minister of Sports and his deputy have the right to vote as members of the Assembly. .

He continued: in that statute of the Amateur Sports Federation, the Minister of Sports had the authority to dismiss and dismiss the president of the federation and appoint a supervisor. The same historical memory led to the 1986 FIFA-approved statute replacing the amateur sports statute. Since then, Article 1 of the Statute of the Football Federation and Article 1 of the Statute of the Amateur Sports Federation, the last of which was adopted in 1400, means that the word “public” and “public non-governmental”. Incidentally, in the Law on Public Accounts, the By-Laws, and the Law on the Supervision of Government Aid, the Football Federation has been repeatedly registered as a public non-governmental and non-profit founder in the Companies Registration Office. Above those letters are written the judiciary.

Adviser to the President of the Football Federation stated: We did not complain to the Court of Administrative Justice. Rather, other people complained to the federation in this court, and the Court of Administrative Justice also said that the federation is excluded from the executive bodies of Articles 3 and 5 of the Civil Service Management Law. The decision of the unity of procedure and the general assembly is legally valid for us until the parliament, the head of the judiciary or the general court issues otherwise. As clients, we have a request or demand from our lawyers to make this temporary solution permanent.

Rafiei continued: the federation and the parliament are together so that football is not threatened, but how and by what mechanism this happens must be determined. The parliament is the legislature and has a lot of powers. The problem is that we believe the federation is not an amateur sports federation. That’s the focus of FIFA. One of the reasons FIFA insists is that the statute should be approved by your general assembly, not the cabinet. May God have mercy on Soltanifar’s father and his team because they provided a good way. If we consider the minister as the representative of sports in the cabinet, that is what he announced to the parliament and he says that we are a public non-governmental organization.

He pointed out: Ghazizadeh and Hashemi have the right to legislate. The previous government did a good job. Because FIFA says the Minister of Sports should not have the right to dismiss, remove the president of a federation and appoint a caretaker for him. We do not have to be a member of FIFA, but we say no because we want to be a member of FIFA. Membership in this institution is not mandatory. FIFA says that if you want to be subject to an executive device, everything must be subject to the rules of that device. Apart from the Football and Sports Federation, the government helps more than 100 NGOs, private and private institutions from the state budget, but this does not change their legal nature. Article 71 of the General Accounting Law should state where the money was spent. The football federation does the same.

The advisor of the Football Federation stated: We were not the judiciary to issue the decision of the General Assembly of the Court of Administrative Justice, but we are subject to the laws of the country and if they say from tomorrow we do not accept the same temporary solution, we will obey. Soltanifar and his colleagues, with the help of parliament, have proposed this temporary solution. Articles 1 and 86 of the Federation Statute have been finalized and approved by FIFA. Sometimes it is necessary to pay attention to the facts in negotiations. Articles 1 and 86 of our statute are the red line of FIFA. If they want to throw the ball in our court, we say the ball is in our court.

Rafiei added: “Why did FIFA do this when it suspended Iranian football under Ahmadinejad’s government?” A wise decision was made last year. Soltanifar and Sajjadi agreed that the government should not have the right to vote in the football federation and dismiss or install the president of the federation. The negotiations were the reason why FIFA sent a letter to the decision of the three powers of the country. The federation has a duty to announce that when FIFA sends such a letter, it is addressed to Mehdi Nabi, the former secretary general of the football federation. He and Barati have bled to death. FIFA says that in order to be a member of this organization, you must meet the requirements. You can not determine them either. Independence must be guaranteed first. That is, the Minister of Sports does not have the right to dismiss the president of the federation. Where my words are contradictory. I do not agree that the feed has been prepared from within to put pressure on the internal reference.

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