David Chung OBE (born Chung Kim Hiong: July 13, 1962 in

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n sports official, and was the President of the

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(PNGFA) from 2004 until 2018. He was a member of the

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Biography

Chung moved from

in 1985, and became a naturalised citizen of his adoptive country. Though "initially involved" in

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, he subsequently became an

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player, coach and referee, and then a senior official. While "administering football" in the

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, he "helped secure outside funding as well as contribute personal finance towards youth development programmes". He became president of the

in 2004, and then the senior vice-president of the

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under OFC president

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in 2007. When Temarii was suspended by

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on allegations of corruption in November 2010, Chung was elevated to the position of acting president, with

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as his senior vice-president. In January 2011, he was elected to the presidency of the OFC unopposed, for a four-year term. The OFC credits Chung with launching Papua New Guinea’s "first ever semi-professional football competition in 2006", the

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, as well as with boosting grassroots football, supporting women’s football and overseeing "a series of infrastructure projects including a national football academy in Lae and regional technical centre in

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with plans in place to build an additional regional technical centre in

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beginning 2011". Chung was named as a recipient of the

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in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in July 2012. On 6 April 2018, Chung stepped down from the role of OFC President, PNGFA President and the FIFA Council, citing personal reasons. In March 2019 he was fined 100,000

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s ( £ 76,000) after being found guilty of corruption, and was banned "from all football-related activities" for six-and-a-half years."FIFA bans, fines former Papua New Guinea soccer boss Chung"
Reuters, 1 March 2019

References

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