NEW HOME FOR FAM

National body finalise plans to relocate from Kelana Jaya to Putrajaya

SOON, the FA of Malaysia (FAM) will vacate their iconic office in Kelana Jaya.

The national football association are now in the final stages of negotiations with a developer to build their new headquarters in Putrajaya.

FAM president Datuk Hamidin Amin and secretary general Stuart Ramalingam met with Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad yesterday to share their plans for the new headquarters.

“I thank the honourable Tun Dr Mahathir for giving me the chance to share FAM’s vision and mission as well as our plans to build the new FAM headquarters and a national training centre that will be equipped with three training grounds, including one indoors,” Hamidin said in a media statement.

“We expect this dream project to be a reality in the next five years.”

Hamidin also updated Dr Mahathir

on FAM’s long-term plans that were in line with the F:30 Roadmap as well as recent developments on the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between FAM and the Japan Football Association (JFA) which was signed on April 5.

“On top of that, on behalf of FAM, I extended an invitation to the Prime Minister’s office to join the FAM delegation to Japan for a study tour later this year,” he said.

Last month, Hamidin, together with Fifa president Gianni Infantino and JFA president, Kohzo Tashima, paid a courtesy visit to Mahathir, before Tashima signed a MoU at Perdana Putra.

It is speculated that the fourstorey Wisma FAM, valued at RM1.85 million in 1979 (which has been FAM’s home for the last 40 years), will make way for a mixed development project.

FAM’s Kelana Jaya headquarters is their second since 1961 with the first, a six-storey building in Jalan Maharajalela, near the Merdeka Stadium, built at a cost of RM317,000.