Incumbent President Anura de Silva ( 104 votes) was elected as the president of the Football Federation Of Sri Lanka with a majority of 25 votes over his rival Ranjith Rodrigo who received 79 votes at the FFSL Annual General Meeting held at the Sports Ministry Auditorium yesterday.
de Silva began his second term as the FFSL President receiving 104 votes to Rodrigo’s 79 out of the 185 eligible voters. It was a secret ballot held under the guidance of Asian Football Federation representative Ravi Kumar and a representative from the World Body Lucas Nichols.
The newly elected president said that the task of holding the top football post in the country is not a bed of roses but a challenging one. We have four years of hard work to prove ourselves and a lot of work to be done to uplift the standard of football . The Minister of Sports Dayasiri Jayasekera has promised to allocate funds for the development of football.
The losing candidate Ranjith Rodrigo said that he did not allocate funds to the leagues and money to purchase jersey’s and did not give big hopes, but only promised to develop the game and win matches. He further said that he did not get the votes from the north and the east which was the main reason for him to lose.