'Melting Club LPI and ISL Not Necessity'

Jakarta - PSSI chairman Djohar Arifin Husin confirmed that the club ISL and LPI will be merged. But the chairman of the competition field PSSI Sihar Sitorus said that fusion is not a necessity.

Discourse about this smelter on one side getting the rejection of one party, but also seen as an option to maintain the existence of the other party.

PSSI chairman of the competition field to detiksport Sihar Sitorus, Friday (08/12/2011) aware about the resistance. "Understandably, when suddenly LPI follow the highest level of competition, (rejection) is groundless, unacceptable. This is one side of the coin," he explained.


"But it should be remembered on the other hand we talk to a professional club, there are different requirements, different profesonal club with an amateur club. So the two sides of a coin. It could be just what the club's lack of ISL in the LPI and vice versa. (Then) the merger occurs. "

Men who are also members of the Executive Committee of PSSI said that fusion is not something that is to be done. "The ball is extensive activity, merging does not mean to. The policy of both clubs, measuring respectively, this deficiency, the excess over there," he said.

"From us, the policy (is) to promote football as a whole: the more crowded the better the competition the participants and of course we are rules that adhere to the statutes. Our hope: to enliven the climate of football with the advantages and disadvantages of each," he finished.

So far the club LPI with PSSI club competition participants who have declared the merger agreement is Real Mataram with PSS Sleman. Meanwhile, clubs such as LPI Bogor Raya, Manado United, Wolves and Tangerang is considering merger options.