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Goal for the future http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article1483339.ece
Goal for the future http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article1483339.ece
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Shame...reminds of the Brunei players statement...will be ever improve???
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AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam, on a two-day visit to India, will chair the meeting. The All India Football Federation (AIFF) chief Praful Patel is the deputy chairman of the body.
Along with AFC Vice-President Manilal Fernando, who is also the FIFA Development Officer, prominent Indian club owners and officials are members of the committee, whose aim is to professionalise football in the country.
Several issues of importance will be taken up for discussion and decision during the meeting, which starts at 1700 hours local time.
The committee in its last meeting in September 2010 saw the members expressing their views and aspirations for Indian football, discussing the way forward for the game to reclaim its past glory.
Following the meeting, an AFC team had carried out a wide-randing and thorough inspection of all I-League clubs, starting October 23 and ending November 1 last year.
On November 2, a workshop for I-League clubs, including the second division outfits, will be conducted by AFC before the third meeting of the committee on November 21.
Then the AIFF President Patel had reiterated the deadline of December 31, 2010, for all I-League clubs to adopt the AFC Champions League criteria.
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NEW DELHI: The almost ancient Cooperage stadium in Mumbai has been given a grant of $2 million for upgrading to the extent needed to fit the Asian Football Confederation criteria for professional football teams, Manilal Fernando, AFC Vice President and FIFA Development Officer today revealed.
Giving details of all the expenses cleared and funds released for use for upgrading infrastructure to various Member Associations (MAs) of the South Asian Football Federation, the FIFA official said that in many instances these are not spent.
“Don’t blame us for that… if you do not spend the money, you will not be given further money,” he warned, adding that development funds released for a particular year will not be carried over to the next year, and if the money for one fiscal is not spent, then there will be no money for the next fiscal.
He revealed also that FIFA has added another $80,000 to the annual grant for these countries, which already stands at $120,000.
Answering a question from the Pakistan delegation on how the additional $80,000 would be spent, Fernando clarified that there were six heads under which such monies could be spent.
“Barring spending the amounts for the development of the adult national teams, you can spend the grants under any one head if you like, or spread it out as per your necessities, but don’t blame us if you have not spent it at all,” he stressed.
“So now you have $200,000 annually but you have to spend the money, otherwise it will be wasted,” he insisted at the Seminar of the Member Associations of South Asian Football Federation, hosted by SAFF, AIFF and India’s largest industry body, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
“So, now you have got $200,00 from FIFA and another $200,000 from AFC, but I find that most countries take inordinately long to implement the projects. In that case, you have only yourselves to blame if funding is stopped,” Fernando repeated.
Giving an example, he said that Bangladesh had been allocated funds in 2005 under a FIFA Tsunami Project, but it took six years to find the land for implementing the project.
He gave similar examples of the FIFA development funds remaining unutilized during the fiscal that it was granted for, like the Tsunami Project Fund allocated for India for development in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, which has taken ages to be implemented.
The MA of Maldives, however, came in for some fulsome praise by Fernando, who said that soccer in that country under its MA was managed highly professionally.
Finally, he added that FIFA could even double the grants for the countries, the condition being that the monies were actually spent.
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