FIFA ban India

In news– Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has suspended India’s top administrative organisation, the All India Football Federation, for “undue influence from third parties”.

About the suspension-

The AIFF has been suspended by FIFA due to “third-party interference”.
Third-party interference refers to a situation in which a member association of FIFA fails to remain independent, is co-opted, and no longer has control over its organisation.
In this case, the SC’s diktat to the Committee of Administrators (COA) to run the AIFF was a textbook case of third-party interference.
The suspension means, firstly, no international football — and this applies to all national teams, across all age groups.
It also applies to both men’s and women’s football, and to all club teams in India.
The suspension also impacts international transfers, as well as any courses or developmental programs that AIFF officials could, or were taking part in.
This in effect means a total ban on all football-related activities outside India. However, the league in the country, as well as domestic transfers, can continue.

Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)-

FIFA, Fédération Internationale de Football Association in French, is the highest global governing body of football (also known as soccer to distinguish it from American football), the world’s most popular game.
It is also the international governing body for futsal (a kind of mini football played indoors on a hard court between two teams of five players each) and beach soccer (five-a-side, played on a beach).
Founded in 1904 in Paris, France to oversee international competitions among the national football associations of a handful of West European countries, the membership of FIFA now comprises 211 national football associations around the world.
Each of these national associations are members of one of the six confederations into which the footballing world is divided: Africa, Asia, Europe, North & Central America and the Caribbean, Oceania, and South America.
The founding president of FIFA was the Frenchman Robert Guerin, who served from 1904-06.
The longest serving president of FIFA was Jules Rimet (1921-54), after whom the FIFA World Cup was originally named.
FIFA, which is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, supports these national associations financially and logistically through various programmes.