Excelsior Sports Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 22: Former General Secretary of J&K Football Association (JKFA), Bashir Ahmed Malik has resigned from the Executive Committee of the Association on the grounds of alleged poor functioning of sports body.
Veteran footballer and senior functionary of the JKFA announced his resignation during a seminar organised by the National and International Footballers Delegation of J&K (NIFDJK), a handout issued by the Delegation here today informed.
“I have raised my voice time and again against the wrong doings within the JKFA where few people have hijacked the entire Association for their own interests and time has come to disassociate myself from these mischievous people who have damaged the sport in entire J&K,” said Malik while expressing his concern.
In the meantime, another prominent footballer and former member JKFA, Nazir Ahmed Andrabi, the man who was behind the successful conduct of the Santosh Trophy 2008, blamed JKFA for taking the game of football to the dark corners.
Famous star footballers Ishfaq Ahmed, Mehraj-Ud-Din Wadoo, Arun Malhotra and former Chairman J&K Bank Sports, Abdul Hameed Banday have already spoken openly against the unconstitutional and illegal working of JKFA.
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