Afghanistan has made a very poor excuse. They cannot bring any Foreign based players for SAG Games and another defeat will hint at job loss for their coach and football federation heads. Thats why they made this poor excuse. Poor sportsmanship from a country which served decades of isolation. Other athletes in events like Athletics, Volleyball have no problem, only Football is problem?
@Ronny Jeje, Rowlin Borges and Arnab Mondal are included as a seniors. 3 senior players are allowed
@munna219777 Mandar and Romeo are born in 1992. Players born in or after 1993 are eligible for SAF GAMES
South Asian Games and SAFF are different. Earlier South Asian Games were known as SAF Games, SAG, SA games or South Asian Federation Games. The earlier name SAF is creating the confusion with SAFF.
The name SAF games was fine. What was the need to keep on changing the names? It took us 6 years to host it after Bangladesh hosted it in 2010. Keep it once in 4 years. Our National Games schedule is also in disarray. Half of the countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Maldives, Bhutan) cannot host it due to political or infrastructural problems. Only 4 countries can host it now.
The Asian powerhouse ( ) Nepal seems to have got their next superstar in Nawayug Shrestha: guy did a hat-trick in demolishing the Maldives 4-1 in the semi-finals of the Bangabandhu Cup in Bangladesh a few days ago. In the finals also, he scored 1 against Bahrain U23 in their 3-0 win. Wonder-kid BGM and Bishal Rai and Shrestha all have scored 4 goals each in the tourney. Shrestha is from Nepal Army.
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Other athletes in events like Athletics, Volleyball have no problem, only Football is problem?
Earlier South Asian Games were known as SAF Games, SAG, SA games or South Asian Federation Games. The earlier name SAF is creating the confusion with SAFF.
It took us 6 years to host it after Bangladesh hosted it in 2010. Keep it once in 4 years. Our National Games schedule is also in disarray. Half of the countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Maldives, Bhutan) cannot host it due to political or infrastructural problems. Only 4 countries can host it now.