WELLINGTON: David Chung has resigned as president of the Oceania Football Confederation, citing personal issues, the organisation said on Friday.

Chung, who was made a senior FIFA vice-president last September, had been in charge of the confederation since 2011.

“David Chung, has resigned from his position effective immediately,” the OFC said in a statement. “Chung, who has been at the helm of OFC since 2011, took the decision after much deliberation citing personal reasons.”

The OFC Executive Committee is scheduled to meet on April 8.

The OFC was not immediately available for further comment.

Malaysia-born Chung was initially temporarily appointed to the OFC presidency in 2010 following the one-year suspension to Tahiti’s Reynald Temarri for breaching FIFA’s ethics and confidentiality rules.

Chung was elected unopposed to the OFC role for a four-year term in January 2011 and then re-elected in 2015.

The 55-year-old, who is also in charge of the Papua New Guinea FA, has been embroiled in a struggle at home for the last 18 months with a breakaway body of rival soccer administrators.

Chung’s opponents have alleged that he had illegally excluded voters for their candidate John Kapi Natto in the PNGFA elections in 2016. Chung has denied the allegations.

Published in Dawn, April 7th, 2018