Raouraoua: “We could have complained to FIFA but we didn’t do it out of respect for national sovereignty”

The President of the FAF, Mohamed Raouraoua, who is wrapping up his term in office, referred in a statement made on Monday in Algiers to the bitter expostulations expressed by former Minister for Youth and Sports, and former President of the Algerian football federation, Mouldi Aissaoui who had threatened the day before to lodge a formal complaint with the International Football Association for having been stripped of the membership of the FAF General Assembly, by dubbing this exclusion move as not in conformity with the basic FIFA laws.

The outgoing President of the FAF castigated Mouldi Aïssaoui and former football legend Rabah Madjer as well, who considered him to be ineligible to vie for a new mandate at the helm of the FAF Federation. 

For Raouraoua, Mouldi Aïssaoui had violated the rules governing elections because, on the one hand, he had not completed his full term as President of the FAF Federation (from September 1993 to July 1994), adding on the other hand that the latter had recorded manifold absences from the proceedings of the FAF’s General Assembly, thus making him lose his status as a member of the Assembly. 

As for Madjer, he does not fulfill, according to Raouraoua, the condition stipulating that in order to be eligible for election for the FAF’s top rostrum, one must have been active in the world of football over the last five years.