{"id":30823,"date":"2016-12-05T00:57:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T00:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-sudan-fa-board-suspend-president-chibur-goc\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T00:57:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T00:57:00","slug":"south-sudan-fa-board-suspend-president-chibur-goc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-sudan-fa-board-suspend-president-chibur-goc\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan FA board suspend President Chibur Goc Alei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The president of the South Sudan Football Association (SSFA), Chabur Goc Alei, says he is determined to clear his name after he was suspended by the FA&#8217;s board of directors.}<\/p>\n<p>The board decided during an emergency extraordinary general meeting on Wednesday that Alei should step aside because of alleged financial impropriety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes it is true the board of directors of the SSFA have suspended me, but I am ready to defend myself and even quit football,&#8221; Alei told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p>The South Sudan FA vice president, Andrea Abdella, has taken over the presidency until the next election in March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>However, the board has decided that Alei can speak in his own defence during a forthcoming General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We shall pick a date for the assembly at which Alei can defend himself on all the matters,&#8221; said South Sudan FA Deputy Secretary General Domasio Ajongo who added that they have also communicated the developments to Fifa and are awaiting a response from football&#8217;s world governing body.<\/p>\n<p>Alei came to office in 2012 and survived being ousted in July 2017 before Fifa intervened.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16848 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_92825163_gettyimages-517039168.jpg\" alt=\"President of the South Sudan FA, Chabur Goc Alei, who has been suspended by the FA&#039;s board of directors.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The president of the South Sudan Football Association (SSFA), Chabur Goc Alei, says he is determined to clear his name after he was suspended by the FA&#8217;s board of directors.} The board decided during an emergency extraordinary general meeting on Wednesday that Alei should step aside because of alleged financial impropriety. &#8220;Yes it is true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-30823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30823"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30823"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}