The Sports Ministry on Saturday knowledgeable Gokulam Kerala FC to return from Uzbekistan as they won’t be able to take part within the AFC Women’s Club Championship as a result of suspension of AIFF.
The membership is exploring flight choices to go as we speak.
World soccer governing physique FIFA suspended India for “undue influence from third parties” and stated that the Under-17 Women’s World Cup “cannot be held as planned in India at present”.
Gokulam Kerala FC’s 23 ladies’s crew gamers at the moment are caught in Tashkent, it isn’t our fault. We request speedy intervention by @PMOIndia @ianuragthakur @anurag_office @narendramodi For us to take part within the AFC. pic.twitter.com/ltiM81XE5q
— Gokulam Kerala FC (@GokulamKeralaFC) 17 August 2022
The ladies’s crew was to tackle a crew from Iran on 23 August and a crew from the host nation in Qarshi on 26 August, whereas ATK Mohun Bagan will play the AFC Cup 2022 (inter-zone semi-final) in Bahrain on 7 September. ,
Desperate for an answer, the Gokulam Kerala crew administration reached out to the Sports Ministry on Wednesday afternoon, looking for their intervention.
The ministry on Friday wrote an e-mail to FIFA and the AFC, informing them of the truth that Gokulam Kerala was already in Uzbekistan when FIFA’s suspension of the AIFF was introduced.
“It has requested FIFA and the AFC to consider allowing the team to play in the AFC Women’s Club Championship (West Zone) in the interest of young players,” the ministry stated in a launch.
Gokulam Kerala stranded in Uzbekistan had appealed to the Prime Minister for assist. Gokulam Kerala had issued an announcement on Twitter in a letter addressed to the Prime Minister.
“… the dream of our Prime Minister is to make India a brilliant energy and turn into No. 1 on the planet. In a small approach our membership is main the trouble to carry ladies’s soccer to India… so we humbly once more Request your sort places of work to intervene.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
