The All India Football Federation (AIFF), on Thursday, provisionally suspended a member of the U-17 ladies’s group employees for alleged misconduct throughout a tour to Norway. In a quick assertion, the federation – at present being run by a Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) – didn’t title the person. However, they mentioned he has been requested to return to India ‘immediately’ to hitch the investigation into the difficulty.
In a joint assertion launched hours later, the state associations affiliated with the AIFF mentioned the involved particular person was a coach of the group, whereas requesting the CoA and the AIFF to ‘initiate an independent enquiry after filing an FIR.’
The U-17 group is at present in Norway as part of their publicity journey to Europe forward of the ladies’s World Cup, which will probably be hosted in India this October. It is learnt the group’s chief coach Thomas Dennerby introduced the difficulty to the discover of the AIFF’s National Teams division, who then knowledgeable the CoA.
The AIFF, in its assertion, mentioned: “An event of misconduct has been reported in the U17 women’s team currently on an exposure tour to Europe. The AIFF follows a zero-tolerance policy on indiscipline. As an initial action, the Federation has provisionally suspended the individual pending further investigation. The AIFF has asked the concerned individual to stop all contact with the team, return to India immediately, and be physically present for further investigations upon his arrival.”
The state associations expressed their ‘no confidence’ within the working of AIFF’s National Team division. “An independent enquiry should be conducted in the management and functioning of the National Team department especially the decisions and actions of the Head of National Team Department should be thoroughly probed to establish the frequent failures including the appointment of the coaches and scouts in AIFF,” they mentioned of their joint assertion.
India’s U-17 ladies’s group is scheduled to make its World Cup debut on October 11, after they tackle the USA on the event’s opening day.
