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Allow Indian clubs to play AFC tournaments: Sports ministry writes to FIFA

Monitor News Desk by Monitor News Desk
Aug. 20, 2022 Updated 11:29 am. IST
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Allow Indian clubs to play AFC tournaments: Sports ministry writes to FIFA


New Delhi: Sensing trouble, the Sports Ministry has appealed to FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to allow Indian clubs — Sree Gokulam Kerala FC and ATK Mohun Bagan — to compete in the tournaments.

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With FIFA suspending the All India Football Federation (AIFF), there was chaos as Gokulam Kerala women’s team had already reached Uzbekistan to participate in their second AFC Women’s Club Championship.

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The women’s team is scheduled to compete against a team from Iran on August 23 and one from the host nation on August 26 in Qarshi, while ATK Mohun Bagan is slated to play the AFC Cup 2022 (Inter-Zone semifinals) on September 7 in Bahrain.

The ministry wrote an email to FIFA and AFC, apprising them of the fact that Gokulam Kerala was already in Uzbekistan when FIFA’s suspension of AIFF was announced.

“It has requested FIFA and AFC to therefore consider allowing the team to play in the AFC Women’s Club Championship (West region) in the interest of the young players,” Ministry said in a release.

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The ministry said that it has also “reached out to the Indian embassy in Uzbekistan to extend assistance to the team in all possible ways. The ministry is also in constant touch with the Gokulam team’s management.”

Gokulam Kerala women’s team president VC Praveen had called up the sports ministry with the players standing by his side.

The ministry had then promptly taken up the matter with the AFC, which offered the team an extension of 48 hours in Tashkent.

FIFA has suspended India for “undue influence from third parties” and said the U-17 Women’s World Cup “cannot currently be held in India as planned”.

This is the first time AIFF has been banned by FIFA in its 85-year history, with the apex body saying there have been “flagrant violations of the FIFA Statutes”.


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