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PIFA Director Anjali Shah appointed on AIFF Women’s committee!

Premier India Football Academy (PIFA) director Anjali Shah has been appointed to the AIFF Women’s Committee during the AIFF’s Executive Committee meeting which was held at the AIFF Football House, New Delhi on Thursday, March 23.

The appointment is memorable for her and PIFA afterall she has been the Maharashtra State womne’s team manager on several occasions in the past and is working for the development of women’s football in India. She has been the driving force of the “Girls Get Going” project which is a project that encourages girls to participate in sports and mentors them to stick with the program whereby empowering them mentally, socially and physically as part of this project she got Hyatt on board for the Silver Swans program that delivered training to underprivileged girls in Colaba, Mumbai.

PIFA has developed several state players and two girls for the Indian National youth teams namely Natasha Merchant played for the India Under-14 girls team that won the AFC U-14 Girls’ Football Festival held in Sri Lanka in 2009 and Kunashni Parikh was Goalkeeper and Vice-Captain of the India U-16 girls in the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship qualifiers held in Jordan in 2010.

Anjali Shah believes that the Indian Women’s football team with the right impetus have a very good chance to qualify for the FIFA Women’s World Cup in the near future. She would like to see a strong woman’s league at city all the way to the national level.

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