The Sports Ministry has requested world soccer governing physique FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to permit Indian golf equipment Sri Gokulam Kerala FC and ATK Mohun Bagan to compete within the scheduled event regardless of the ban on AIFF.
With FIFA suspending the All India Football Federation (AIFF) late on Monday night time, there was chaos because the Gokulam Kerala girls’s crew arrived in Uzbekistan to take part of their second AFC Women’s Club Championship. The girls’s crew is scheduled to compete in opposition to a crew from Iran on 23 August and a crew from the host nation in Qarshi on 26 August, whereas ATK Mohun Bagan is ready to play the AFC Cup 2022 (inter-zone semi-final) in Bahrain on 7 September . ,
The ministry wrote an electronic 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. The ministry stated that it has reached out to the Indian embassy in Uzbekistan to supply all attainable assist to the crew. The ministry can also be in fixed contact with the administration of the Gokulam crew.”
Following the information of the ban, Gokulam Kerala girls’s crew president VC Praveen referred to as up the Sports Ministry and the gamers stood by him. The ministry then took up the matter with the AFC, which provided the crew an extension of 48 hours to Tashkent.
On Monday, FIFA suspended India for “undue influence from third parties” and stated that the U-17 Women’s World Cup “cannot be held as planned in India at present”.
This is the primary time the AIFF has been banned by FIFA in its 85-year historical past, with the apex physique saying there was a “violation of FIFA law”.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
