PSSI General Chair (Ketum) Erick Thohir said PSSI had sent a strong protest letter to the Kuwaiti Football Federation (KFA) as well as the AFC. This is in connection with Kuwait's decision to withdraw unilaterally from the FIFA Matchday match in September 2025.
Kuwait, together with Indonesia and Lebanon, is actually scheduled to compete in the Garuda Championship Series which will take place 2-8 September 2025 in Surabaya.
However, ahead of the mini tournament, KFA canceled the participation of the Kuwait National Team. This unilateral decision made PSSI disappointed.
"We are certainly very sorry that it has been so far, everything has been locked up. We plan to fight the Middle East, Kuwait and Lebanon teams."
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"Initially, we were also allowed to have bad interpretations. This is sabotage, it's hard to test it. However, we see that Kuwait has also withdrawn from other tournaments."
"Well, that may be an internal issue, I don't want to accuse. However, we have sent a hard letter to Kuwait," said Erick Thohir in Jakarta, quoted on Wednesday, August 27.
Not only sending a letter of protest to the Kuwaiti Federation, PSSI will also report this unilateral cancellation to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
"We don't know, it's only been the last few days (it's been reported that the cancellation). In fact, preparations are ready. Well, we will also report to the AFC."
"Yes, the issue is that they (Kuwait) canceled coming. Especially to us and there were several tournaments. As for the internal issues, I don't know, I don't live in Kuwait. So, I'm afraid to say something wrong," said the chairman of PSSI.
Regarding the replacement for Kuwait, Erick admitted that PSSI will try hard to announce the right opponent no later than this week.
"On the 8th (September), against Lebanon, on the 5th (September) we are still waiting, hopefully in 1-2 days there will be news," he said.
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