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View all search resultsMochamad Iriawan, a former West Java Police and Jakarta Police chief, is the first Indonesian soccer leader with police general background. The post has been dominated by figures from the Indonesian Military (TNI), including its last chief, Edy Rahmayadi.
Heavily annoyed and disappointed with the latest Indonesian senior national soccer team’s 3-1 defeat to neighboring Vietnam in a 2022 World Cup qualifier, soccer fans hold the Indonesia Soccer Association accountable and are therefore demanding the currently chiefless association immediately take firm action to solve the problems.
Indonesia once had a women’s league called Liga Utama Wanita (Women’s Premier League), also known as Galanita, which was popular in the 1990s. The Association of Indonesian Soccer (PSSI) had never replaced Galanita with a proper league until the 2019 revival – it only organized a few sporadic competitions for short-term purposes.
It was a crash-and-burn moment for Indonesian soccer as chaos erupted in an essential 2022 World Cup qualifying match against Malaysia, even before the scoreboard showed a 3-2 loss for the host on Thursday evening.
The Soccer Association of Indonesia (PSSI) has appointed Gusti Randa as the new acting chief of the association, replacing Joko Driyono, who is currently being investigated for his alleged involvement in the destruction of evidence in a match-fixing related case.
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