Hamka Hamzah Ahead Of The PSSI New Management Election: Don't Make Politics 70 Percent, 30 Percent Football

Former Indonesian national team player, Hamka Hamzah. (Photo: Ulfa Gusti Utami/VOI)

JAKARTA - Former Indonesian national team player, Hamka Hamzah, gave a satire statement ahead of the selection of the new PSSI management preiode 2023-2027.

He poked fun at PSSI's new leaders by asking them to be more concerned with football than politics.

Hamka Hamzah said this when he commented on Indonesian football at the National Football Caucus event in the Senayan area, Central Jakarta, on Monday, February 13.

Hamka revealed the satire because in his view, currently the politics in PSSI is more dominant so that Indonesian football only goes on the spot from year to year.

"The PSSI management must have the intention of advancing football. Don't use 30 percent of the football, 70 percent of it is politics. It should be reversed," said Hamka Hamzah.

In England, the competition is known not the management. In Indonesia, the management who is known is not the competition," he continued.

Having experience playing for 21 years both at home and abroad, Hamka said that the main thing that must be improved by the federation so that better Indonesian football is to improve competition.

I have been in a career in football for 21 years and have played in Malaysia. If you want Indonesian football to progress, the quality of the competition must be improved. Simple," Hamka said in his oration in front of the PSSI Exco candidates on the same occasion.

Hamka Hamzah's firmness regarding the improvement of competition was expressed because currently League 2 and League 3 are being stopped. Meanwhile, Liga 1 as the highest caste has resumed after the tragedy of Kanjuruhan Stadium.