Yunus Nusi Called PSSI Not A Satisfying Tool

PSSI Chairman Mochamad Iriawan (center) with Acting Secretary General of PSSI Yunus Nusi (right) (Photo: PSSI)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) has knocked the hammer. The competition will be continued on October 1. This decision was taken through tough and thoughtful discussions. Even PSSI has conducted a number of meetings with stakeholders, both open and closed.

However, there are several clubs that still do not agree with the PSSI decision. They are still worried because the competition will be held in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is understandable by PSSI.

"Of course PSSI realizes that products issued in this condition will not satisfy all parties. Because PSSI is also not a satisfying tool," said PSSI Acting Secretary General, Yunus Nusi, in a talk on the YouTube account of a private television station.

Yunus added, everything was done by PSSI in an extraordinary way. Likewise with the handling of the competition which is carried out in a very extraordinary way. Then the pressure was tremendous too.

"It will be even more extraordinary if we do this competition and everyone respects each other. Of course only extraordinary people can understand that in the midst of this pandemic, what we are doing is all extraordinary," he said.

Yunus did not deny that there were some parties who were pessimistic and cynical about PSSI's move to hold competitions in the midst of a pandemic. He accused this of their displeasure with some of the PSSI officials. That, he continued, sometimes turns a blind eye to the good achievements of football in Indonesia.

"But whoever they are should know that the main task of PSSI is to hold competitions according to the statute," said Yunus.

The chairman of the East Kalimantan PSSI Provincial Association emphasized that there are several clubs who are still shy and subjective regarding the continuation of the competition. However, he revealed, there has been no official letter to PSSI regarding the rejection of the continuation of the competition.

"If someone gives a statement or whatever the name is, for PSSI it is the right of club friends," said Yunus.