FIFA and Puma settle one-piece Cameroon kit dispute out of court (26.10.2005)
ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer`s governing body FIFA and German sports goods maker Puma have settled their long-running dispute over Cameroon`s one-piece playing kit.
FIFA said in a statement on Tuesday that the two parties had agreed not to disclose the terms of the settlement, but had reached an out of court agreement "in the interests of international football."
The dispute centered on a one-piece kit that Cameroon wore in the 2004 African Nations Cup.
Cameroon wore the strip,
intheir traditional colours of green and red, in three group matches and a quarter-final, but FIFA fined the country`s football association 200,000 Swiss francs and initially docked them six World Cup qualifying points.
Puma maintained that there were no rules against wearing a one-piece kit in the Laws of the Game relating to equipment regulations.
FIFA maintained that Law 4 stated that basic equipment comprised a jersey or shirt and a pair of shorts so the one-piece kit contravened the regulations.
