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The Executive Committee members of All India Football Federation met at AIFF Headquarters, the Football House in Dwarka, New Delhi today, November 17. AIFF Senior vice-president Subrata Dutta chaired the meeting in the absence of AIFF president Praful Patel.
Besides, AIFF general secretary Kushal Das; vice-presidents K.M.I. Mather and Subhash Chopra; all other members except Sanjay Behera and Deepak Kumar, attended the meeting.
Leave of absence was also granted to vice-presidents Larsing Sawyan, Manvendra Singh and treasurer Z.A. Thakur.
Chirag Tanna represented FSDL in the meeting as an invitee.
The Committee condoled the death of former AFC general secretary Peter Velappan, and AIFF Medical Committee Member Dr. Manpreet Gambhir. A minute’s silence was observed as a mark of respect for each of them.
The Committee congratulated the Indian Women’s Team advancement to the 2nd round of the AFC Women’s Olympic Qualifiers recently held in Yangon. “This is for the first time the Indian women have qualified for the second round. Congratulations,” Mr. Das said, much to the applause of all the members.
Mr. Das also apprised the Committee about AIFF’s MOU with the Government of Odisha. “The Government of Odisha has been extremely supportive for the development of Indian Football and I need to thank the honourable CM Shri Naveen Patnaik ji for all his support,” he stated.
“The Indian Arrows, and the India U-15 team preparing for the AFC U-16 Qualifiers would be based in Bhuwaneshwar. The MOU will also facilitate general football development, scouting, development of referees and coach education programmes,” Mr. Das stated. “We will also be setting up the U-15 Girls Academy in Bhubaneswar.”
Updating the Committee about I-League matters, I-League CEO Sunando Dhar informed that the Second Division League will kick-off from December 2018.
23 teams have so far expressed their willingness to play. However, the participants would be finalised only after completion of the AIFF Club licensing inspection and thereafter placed before the League Committee.
“The AIFF TW3 tests are currently being conducted for all the clubs for the U-13 and U-15 leagues,” Mr. Dhar added.
Roma Khanna made a presentation to the Committee about developments on AIFF’s Centre of Excellence presently coming up in Kolkata.
Furthermore, the Committee also accepted the resignation of A.R. Khaleel from the post of an Executive Committee Member, and approved the inclusion of Nikhil Patel in the AIFF Competitions Committee, and Madhav Milan Ghosh in the AIFF Disciplinary Committee in place of Krishnendu Banerjee.
Meanwhile, the Committee unanimously gave its consent to hold the AGM for AIFF on December 20, 2018.
