The International Federation of Association Football (Fifa) disciplinary committee has delivered a scathing judgment against the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) and its seven foreign-born players, condemning their use of forged documents as an act that “strikes at the very core of the fundamental principles of football.”
In his written decision, the committee’s deputy chairperson, Jorge Palacio, said the committee was “comfortably satisfied” that the birth certificates submitted by FAM in several eligibility proceedings had been forged and/or falsified, to alter the players’ grandparents’ birthplaces.
