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AIFF's Executive Committee meets in Goa

AIFF's Executive Committee meets in Goa

| | 26 Sep 2016, 08:40 pm
New Delhi, Sept 26 (IBNS): President of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) Praful Patel Chaired AIFF’s Executive Committee Meeting in Goa on Monday.

Besides, AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das; Vice Presidents Subrata Dutta,  KMI Mather, Shrinivas Dempo,  Subhash Chopra; and all other members except Treasurer ZA Thakur, Vice-President  Larsing Ming, and members Jesiah Villavarayar and  Sara Pilot attended the Meeting.

National Coach Mr. Stephen Constantine, AIFF Technical Director Scott O’Donnell, Bhaichung Bhutia, Chairman, Technical Committee,  Nicolai Adam, Head Coach, India U-17 World Cup Team, AIFF, Abhishek Yadav, Director, Scouting, AIFF, Javier Ceppi, Tournament Director, FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 and  Joy Bhattacharya, Project Director, FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 were also present on the occasion.

Chirag Tanna and Rochak Langer representing FSDL attended the Meeting.

The Committee congratulated Bengaluru FC for their performance in the ongoing AFC Cup and wished them luck for the semifinals where they play Malaysia’s Johor Darul Tazim.

Sunando Dhar briefed the Committee about Hero I-League updates which kicks-off on Jan 7, 2017.

Keeping in mind the heartwarming performance of Aizawl FC in the last edition, the Committee unanimously decided to give them a ticket to play in the 2016-17 edition.

The ‘ISL League Rules 2016’ were also approved by the Committee.

The Committee was apprised about National Team updates by National Coach Stephen Constantine and that was followed by Nicolai Adam providing updates about the U-17 World Cup Team.

The overseas online scouting portal launched by AIFF, the first of its kind in India was appreciated by the Committee. Abhishek Yadav further took the Committee a tour on the portal scouting.the-aiff.com.

The new dates for the Santosh Trophy were finalized and the final round will finish by Jan 10, 2017.

Meanwhile, AIFF’s Annual General Body Meeting for the Elections will be held in December 2016 while the Special General Body Meeting will be held in January 2017.

Image: AIFF Media

 

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