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‘Football Clubs Should Be Represented By Role Model, Not Disgraced Former Prime Minister,’ PN MP Says

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Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s path to a top job in Malta’s football scene has been received in mixed fashion, none more so than by the PN’s spokesperson for sport Graham Bencini.

Taking to Facebook, Bencini wrote that “for the benefit of sport, the Malta Professional Football Clubs Association (MPFCA) should be chaired by a role model and not by a disgraced former prime minister.”

The statement came after Times of Malta reported that the country’s top-flight football teams approached Muscat and proposed that he become the head of the body representing them.

Effectively, the role would see Muscat be the next chairman of the MPFCA, his first public appointment following his resignation as the country’s leader in 2019.

Speaking with Lovin Malta, Bencini said that role should be occupied by “a man who is independent of politics,” and that doing so would be the best way to “avoid controversy.”

“Sport is one of the few things that unites us in this country. Having Joseph Muscat chair a body which represents the clubs of the country’s leading sport will certainly divide the sporting community to the detriment of the sport itself.”

Muscat’s resignation came in the wake of the 2019 political crisis that followed the arrest of Yorgen Fenech and the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

The MPFCA is an autonomous body formed by Maltese football clubs last year and was made to represent the interests of professional football clubs in Malta. The association is made up of the 12 presidents of the country’s Premier League.

Presently, it is being chaired by Robert Micallef, president of Santa Lucia FC, who is occupying the post on an interim basis.

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