Kuwait's athletes and sports clubs are fed up after being barred from international competitions by FIFA and the International Olympics Committee.
Back in October, FIFA and IOC banned Kuwait, alleging government interference in the country's football association and its Olympic movement, respectively. This decision has barred the nation's football clubs from participating in international matches, including qualifying matches for the World Cup.
If things don't change soon, Kuwait's athletes will not be able to participate in the Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil sporting their nation's flag. However, they will be allowed to compete under the generic Olypmic flag if they choose.
"There is nothing that can be considered to be against the FIFA statutes", Kuwaiti MP Abdullah al-Maayouf told Reuters . "Much of the information that FIFA gets is wrong."
The controversy centers around a draft sports law that has yet to be passed, leading many to question why the ban was instituted before the law was even a reality.
"What is very strange is they placed us under these sanctions before any law was passed, it was just a draft. We cannot be banned for something that has not happened," Maayouf said.
A Kuwaiti delegation has been sent to lobby for the nations football clubs at the 2016 FIFA Congress taking place Friday. Saad Al-Houti, who captained Kuwait's 1982 World Cup team, is leading the group.
"This is very hard to accept," he told Reuters. "We just want to show we are separate from the government and we want to return things as they were before because this is doing us very great harm."
This is the second time Kuwait has been suspended by the IOC in five years, both times for similar allegations. However, the previous ban was lifted in time for the nation to send its athletes to officially compete in London. FIFA has not previously banned the nation. When FIFA's ban was announced in October, Kuwait was second in Group G of Asian qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup.