How Nepal’s football establishment destroyed itself

FIFA’s suspension of ANFA didn’t come from outside. It was a slow and deliberate result of the incompetence of the very people entrusted to protect the sport.

While Prime Minister Balendra Shah was posting on Facebook about his favourite team at the 2026 World Cup, and his education and sports minister was cradling a miniature trophy with “Dream, Nepal in this someday,” the institution responsible for making that dream real was busy engineering its own destruction.