President of Malaysian Football Federation resigns, national team faces turmoil

(Dan Tri) - Malaysian media reported that the President of the Malaysian Football Association (FAM), Datuk Joehari Ayub, submitted his resignation last weekend.

The above information was published by Malaysia's leading English-language daily New Straits Times last night (August 25). New Straits Times shared: "Information said that Datuk Joehari Ayub submitted his resignation last Friday due to health reasons."

FAM President Datuk Joehari Ayub (Photo: NST).

“Datuk Joehari Ayub has been absent from most of the FAM events and group photos recently,” Malaysia’s leading English daily added.

Also according to Malaysian media, the person who will likely replace President Datuk Joehari Ayub in the new leadership role of FAM is Vice President Datuk Yusoff Mahadi.

The resignation of Datuk Joehari Ayub was called a “shock” by the Malaysian press, as he had not been in the FAM presidency for long. Datuk Joehari Ayub assumed the position in February this year. His term was expected to last until 2029, until news of his resignation emerged.

The Malaysian team (yellow shirt) will face many storms in the coming time (Photo: VFF).

In addition, the resignation of the current FAM President is also surprising because the Malaysian national team is successful. The team nicknamed Harimau Malaya just had a very big 4-0 victory over the Vietnamese team on June 10, in the third qualifying round of the 2027 Asian Cup.

However, the victory had some “scratches”, when some media channels of neighboring Indonesia doubted the origin of Malaysia’s new naturalized players. Meanwhile, Malaysian football public opinion once spoke up to demand FAM to publicly disclose the origin of these naturalized players.

The next notable thing is that up until now FAM has been completely silent, they have not denied the information published by the Malaysian press in recent days.

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