Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: November 01, 2023, 15:02 IST
Football House, All India Football Federation Headquarters (AIFF)
The All India Football Federation’s Technical Committee steered longer preparation time and publicity friendlies for the Indian girls’s soccer workforce.
The All India Football Federation’s Technical Committee met just about on Wednesday, November 1, 2023, to guage the performances of the lads’s and girls’s nationwide groups throughout all age teams.
The assembly was chaired by former India captain IM Vijayan and attended by AIFF Secretary General Dr. Shaji Prabhakaran, Deputy Secretary General Satyanarayan M, Technical Director Syed Sabir Pasha, and members Pinky Bompal Magar, Harjinder Singh, Arun Malhotra, Climax Lawrence and Eugeneson Lyngdoh.
The Secretary General knowledgeable the Technical Committee concerning the Memorandum of Understanding that the AIFF signed with the Central Asian Football Association (CAFA). As per the MoU, the Indian nationwide groups throughout all age teams can be invited to take part in CAFA tournaments. The Technical Committee members appreciated the truth that CAFA member nations are mainly robust soccer-taking part in nations, and it’ll assist the Indian footballers play towards more durable opponents.
Dr. Prabhakaran mentioned, “The tournaments where we will compete against the Central Asian teams will greatly help our footballers compete and perform at a higher level. Having the opportunity to play such tournaments will help us aim higher, and our target is to start challenging the top Asian teams by 2026.”
The Committee appreciated the efforts put in by the lads’s and girls’s workforce gamers on the Asian Games earlier this yr, regardless of dealing with greater-ranked opponents and troublesome circumstances. The members additionally advisable that the matter of gamers being launched by golf equipment for tournaments just like the Asian Games be mentioned on the subsequent Executive Committee assembly.
Members of the Committee agreed that the Indian girls’s soccer workforce carried out admirably towards powerful opponents like Thailand and the Chinese Taipei within the Asian Games however advisable that the Indian girls’s soccer workforce be given longer preparation time and publicity friendlies to organize for such occasions.
The Committee steered to the members that the U-23 nationwide workforce must be constructed up, with present senior nationwide workforce assistant coach and former India defender Mahesh Gawali on the helm. Suggestions have been additionally made for Gawali to guide the undertaking for the event of the opposite junior groups, in an effort to streamline the development of the gamers.
The efficiency of the India U-17 girls’s workforce within the AFC U-17 Women’s Asian Cup Qualifiers was properly obtained by the members, particularly as they competed properly towards greater-ranked sides just like the Korea Republic, and Thailand.
The AIFF, for the primary time in three years, has organised the sub-junior and junior girls’s nationwide soccer championships. While the members felt that India are lagging in junior soccer on the home degree, the graduation of such nationwide championships, together with the junior elite leagues and Khelo India, will assist bridge that hole.
The Committee additionally steered the Federation create a database for the U-19 gamers in an effort to higher monitor and monitor their progress.
