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Chennai’s loss is set to be Mumbai’s gain as the proposed India, Mauritius and Saint Kitts & Nevis Football Tri-Series is being shifted from Tamil Nadu to Maharashtra due to exorbitant demands by the Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu (SDAT).
The SDAT was asking to charge Rs 200,000 (2 lakh) per match, Rs 75,000 for practice session per day and another Rs 75,000 if the teams train at the ‘B’ ground of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
This means that the Mumbai Football Arena at the Andheri Sports Complex instead of Chennai’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium will host the three team tournament which is supposed to kick off on Thursday, August 17.
Also the India camp supposed to kick off on August 11 for the tournament and the 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualifier away to Macau on September 5 would be shifted from Chennai to Mumbai.
After the AIFF realised that work on the Chennai facility was show and the charges ridiculously high, they looked at options in Bengaluru and Mumbai, but with Bengaluru FC playing an AFC Cup match on August 23 left Mumbai as the only option with the Bombay Municipal Corporation willing to charge nominal rates to attract international once more to the city.
I’m sure football fans in Mumbai have read, for those yet to, the Mumbai Football Arena will host the tri nation tournament next week ??
— Aaditya Thackeray (@AUThackeray) August 10, 2017
