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AIFF Executive Committee meets in Mumbai & decides numerous points!

On the sidelines of the wedding of All India Football Federation president Praful Patel’s daughter, the president chaired the AIFF’s Executive Committee Meeting held in Mumbai on Sunday, July 22.

Besides, AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das; Vice Presidents Subrata Dutta, Larsing Ming, K.M.I. Mather, Manavendra Singh, Treasurer Z.A. Thakur, all other members except A.R. Khaleel, Sanjay Behera, Deepak Kumar, Lalnghinglova Hmar and Sara Pilot, attended the meeting.

Chirag Tanna, representing FSDL attended the meeting as an invitee along with FIFA RDO Prince Rufus.

The Committee strongly condemned Indian Olympic Association’s decision to debar India’s Men and Women Football teams from participating in the forthcoming Asian Games 2018 scheduled to be held in Jakarta.

The Committee also unanimously ratified the 2018/19 Club licensing regulations.

Meanwhile, in a further effort to curb age-fraud, the TW3 test, which has been accepted by the Supreme Court as an age verification test as well used extensively used by the BCCI, has been implemented by the Committee for all age-group competitions including Club competitions, state tournaments and even National Team competitions. The costs for the tests would be borne by the respective Clubs and State Associations.

Abiding by FIFA regulations, the Committee ratified the use of 5 substitutions in age-group competitions along with an extra substitute if the match is stretched to extra-time.

The Committee also recommended that a standard draft agreement be circulated to the Clubs which will include all clauses which need to be included as per FIFA regulations. However, Clubs would be allowed to use certain variable clauses as an annexure. This will be implemented from the 2019/20 season.

Roma Khanna apprised the Committee about the updates on AIFF’s Centre of Excellence presently coming up in Kolkata while Prince Rufus apprised the Committee about the FIFA Forward programme.

Based on AIFF two-member Committee’s (Subrata Dutta and Col. B.M.R. Mehta) visit to Football Association, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, the Committee decided to grant provisional affiliation to Dadra and Nagra Naveli which would later be approved by AIFF’s General Body in the AGM meeting later.

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