Pray The Player Send Club To The National Team During The AFF Cup, PSSI: That's Commitment

Indonesian national team (Photo: PSSI)

JAKARTA - PSSI Executive Committee (Exco) member Endri Erawan reminded the club's commitment to send its players if summoned to the national team that will compete in the 2022 AFF Cup.

"That's a commitment. It's a matter of how many players will be discussed again," said Endri in Jakarta, Friday.

According to him, clubs need to be tolerant to release their players because Liga 1 2022-2023, if restarted, will run alongside the 2022 AFF Cup.

Endri continued, PSSI and PT LIB were forced to roll out the league during the 2022 AFF Cup in order to achieve the target of completion in April 2023.

"Currently, we have been behind 1.5 to two months (because the league was stopped due to the bloody incident at the Kanjuruhan Stadium, Malang-ed). So, if we stop again, the competition will not be finished," said Endri.

If anything happens, restrict the summons for the AFF Cup, as the league continues to rotate during the tournament, several times.

Finally, the policy was applied to the 2020 AFF Cup which will take place in December 2021.

At that time, PSSI limited the summons of national team players to a maximum of two people from each club.

The 2022 AFF Cup will be held on December 20, 2022-16 January 2023. In that tournament, the Indonesian national team is in Group A with defending champions Thailand, the Philippines, Cambodia and Brunei Darussalam.

PSSI targets Indonesia to become the champion of the 2022 AFF Cup. If it succeeds in obtaining this achievement, it will be the first in history for the "Garuda" squad.

However, until now, there is no certainty regarding the schedule for the continuation of the 2022-2023 Indonesian League 1, which was temporarily suspended starting in early October 2022 due to a bloody incident at the Kanjuruhan Stadium, Malang. The tragedy killed 135 people and injured hundreds more.

PSSI and competition operator PT Liga Indonesia Baru (LIB) are still waiting for the "green light" from the government.