The AFC-AIFF Match Commissioner’s Workshop kicked off in Kolkata yesterday, April 1 and the two-day long workshop concluded today. P. Sivakumar, an eminent FIFA and AFC Match Commissioner from Singapore is the instructor of the workshop where 20 AIFF-appointed Match Commissioners, including five AFC-appointed Match Commissioners from India are invited …
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The All India Football Federation (AIFF) plans to introduce a new invitational multi-continental Champions Cup competition in August 2017. The newly proposed Champions Cup will be an annual affair played between four Countries, starting 2017. The Champions Cup may possibly see participation from an Asian, African and a North American …
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The Academy Accreditation system that has been the platform for assessment in terms of youth development for all Clubs and Academies over the past two years has been revised for the 2017/18 season. The system having been established in 2014 and implemented from 2015/16 has had over 60 entities from …
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All India Football Federation is set to implement the ‘Home grown Player Rule’ in the upcoming youth leagues for U-13, U-15 and U-18 age-groups. The rules indicate a home grown player as one whose state of domicile is the same as the location of the Club/Academy who he’s set to …
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A new podcast on Indian football has been launched under the curious name of 420grams featuring the host Arjun Pandit, resident guest Siddhanth Aney and this time former India Technical Director Scott O’Donell. For those of us on the outside it is hard to comprehend how much has changed in …
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NEW DELHI: 23 Players have been selected for the Indian Senior Women’s National Team for the 2018 AFC Women’s Asian Cup Qualifiers, slated to kick-off from April 03, 2017 in DPR Korea, after a Preparatory Camp took place in Goa from March 01, 2017 and is scheduled to conclude on …
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YANGON: Has Indian Football changed in the last four years? How much? Five stays the magic number! The present Indian squad in Yangon has just five players who were here last time when India went down to Myanmar by a solitary goal in the 2013 AFC Challenge Cup (Qualifiers) decider …
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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 …
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NEW DELHI: All India Football Federation Scouting Director Abhishek Yadav, also the COO of the U-17 National Team said that the process of recruiting players for 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India is presently “still on” under U-17 Coach Luis Norton de Matos in Goa. “The Coach wants to …
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has revamped the definition of Grassroots Football characterising it as; All Football which is Non-Professional/Non-Elite is part of Grassroots Football including Children’s Football, School Football, Futsal, Beach football, Women’s Football, Veterans Football, Community Football, Amateur Football and Football for the disabled. Keeping in mind the …
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