The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) has revoked the Associate Membership of Niue.<\/p>\n
The Associate Member status of the former Niue Islands Soccer Association has been revoked, following a decision taken by the OFC Executive Committee during its March 3 meeting, an OFC statement read.<\/p>\n
The former Niue Islands Soccer Association has been inoperative for the past 10 years, putting it in breach of Article 10 of the OFC Statutes<\/p>\n
Article 10 states that:<\/p>\n
Every Member Association has the following obligations:<\/p>\n
It has previously been stated by Sascha Derkop that the Niue Soccer Association has had no contact with OFC since the early 1990s.<\/p>\n
The OFC writes that the Executive Committee had no other alternative but to revoke their Associate Member status.<\/p>\n
But there is light at the end of the tunnel, according to the OFC press release.<\/p>\n
OFC is aware that a new entity representing Niue is in the process of establishment and welcomes its application for Associate Membership in the future.<\/p>\n
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