South Korea's soccer governing body on Tuesday demanded an apology from the head of the Asian Football Confederation, Mohamed bin Hammam, for recently insulting a top South Korean football official, Yonhap News Agency reported.
"He must offer an open apology for his remarks," Yoo Young Cheol, spokesman for the Korea Football Association, was quoted by Yonhap as saying.
During a television interview last week, bin Hammam said he was ready to "cut the head off" of KFA President Cho Chung Yun, insisting several Asian soccer officials, South Koreans among them, were plotting to deprive him of his seat on the executive committee of soccer world's governing body FIFA.
"Some people have launched a campaign against me. Maybe they don't like me, a man from the desert, being at the helm," bin Hammam was quoted by Qatari television station Al Kaas as saying, according to Yonhap.