At the headquarters of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) on the outskirts of New Zealand’s capital Auckland, 13 flags, including associate members Kiribati and Tuvalu, fly. The Maori flag is not one of them.
The Maori Football Aotearoa (MFA) is not a member of the confederation. Just like the Hawaiian Football Federation and the Australian Indigenous Football Council (AIFC), the MFA wants self-determination and more control but, in the maze of football politics and because of the FIFA statutes, the road to self-empowerment is difficult. The associations argue that FIFA has the obligation – enshrined
