TMJ reveals manifesto ahead of FAM presidency election

PETALING JAYA: The Football Association of Malaysia's (FAM) constitution will be amended to allow fans to elect future presidents, and measures will be taken to ensure the association would not be used for political mileage.
These are two of 11 key changes and initiatives that have been listed by Johor Crown Prince Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim (pix) in his manifesto, entitled "Football Belongs To The People", in his quest to become FAM president.
Tunku Ismail will face his fiercest rival, former Kelantan Football Association president Tan Sri Annuar Musa, for the FAM president post, with the elections to take place during the 53rd FAM Congress on Saturday.
The Johor Crown Prince outlined his plans in a Facebook posting in the Johor Southern Tigers page on Tuesday night.
Tunku Ismail said, if elected as president, he would work with the FAM exco members to ensure that supporters have the power to elect future presidents instead of the congress members.
He added that he would also ensure football does not fall into the hands of people who would use the game for political reasons, as a financial hub to distribute money for political campaigns, or as a platform for politicians to campaign for elections.
"The manifesto has been engineered through consultation, research and experience, and sets out some key objective that my organisation will be striving to achieve over the coming years.
"The people of Malaysia have witnessed first hand over the past four years the success and progress of JDT under my leadership, now its time for this progress to be made nationwide," he posted.
theSun is attempting to contact Annuar for his vision for Malaysian football.
The other items listed in TMJ's manifesto are:
» Cultural change throughout Malaysia football, with a complete overhaul of the FAM. This include exco meetings all over the country on a rotational basis, and a requirement for state football association to engage fans;
» Governance and administrative reform. Changing the structure of the national body, including addressing corruption and lack of professionalism and passion;
» Increasing the commercial value of the Super League and Premier League;
» Football development programmes, including a licensing requirement that every team in the Super League is to have an academy and youth development programme;
» Taking a global approach to the country's football development, involving international expertise and succession planning;
» National team restructure - to have a management structure with its CEO that reports directly to the president;
» Referee and match officials development;
» Improvement in facilities; and
» Hands on approach on the association and the national squad.