{"id":74651,"date":"2025-10-08T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/08\/malaysia-rejects-fifa-accusations-it-forged-players-citizenship-and-will-appeal-sanctions-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:25:15","slug":"malaysia-rejects-fifa-accusations-it-forged-players-citizenship-and-says-it-will-appeal-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74651","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia rejects Fifa accusations it forged players\u2019 citizenship and says it will appeal sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s football association says it will appeal Fifa sanctions and fine after seven players on national team suspended for one year<\/p>\n<p>The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) will appeal Fifa\u2019s decision to sanction it for allegedly falsifying the citizenship documents of seven overseas-born players who have been suspended from representing the country for one year.<\/p>\n<p>Fifa fined FAM $438,000 this September and suspended the players after it discovered their grandparents were not born in Malaysia as FAM had claimed, but instead in Argentina, Brazil, the Netherlands and Spain. The global football body reiterated its claims about falsified or doctored documentation in a disciplinary committee report released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/08\/malaysia-rejects-fifa-accusations-it-forged-players-citizenship-and-will-appeal-sanctions-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s football association says it will appeal Fifa sanctions and fine after seven players on national team suspended for one yearThe Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) will appeal Fifa\u2019s decision to sanction it for allegedly falsifying the ci&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4947,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1552,627,1022,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fifa","category-football","category-football-politics","category-malaysia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4947"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74652,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74651\/revisions\/74652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}