The Sports Ministry has requested the world soccer governing physique FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to permit Indian golf equipment Sree Gokulam Kerala FC and ATK Mohun Bagan — compete within the tournaments as scheduled regardless of the ban on AIFF.
With FIFA suspending the All India Football Federation (AIFF) late on Monday, there was chaos as Gokulam Kerala girls’s staff had already reached Uzbekistan to take part of their second AFC Women’s Club Championship. The girls’s staff is scheduled to compete towards a staff from Iran on August 23 and one from the host nation on August 26 in Qarshi, whereas ATK Mohun Bagan is slated to play the AFC Cup 2022 (Inter-Zone semifinals) on September 7 in Bahrain.
The ministry wrote an e mail to FIFA and AFC, apprising them of the truth that Gokulam Kerala was already in Uzbekistan when FIFA’s suspension of AIFF was introduced.
“It has requested FIFA and AFC to therefore consider allowing the team to play in the AFC Women’s Club Championship (West region) in the interest of the young players,” Ministry stated in a launch. The ministry stated that it has additionally “reached out to the Indian embassy in Uzbekistan to extend assistance to the team in all possible ways. The ministry is also in constant touch with Gokulam team’s management.”
Following the information of the ban, Gokulam Kerala girls’s staff president VC Praveen had known as up the sports activities ministry with the gamers standing by his facet. The ministry had then promptly taken up the matter with the AFC, which supplied the staff an extension of 48 hours in Tashkent.
On Monday, FIFA had suspended India for “undue influence from third parties” and stated the U-17 Women’s World Cup “cannot currently be held in India as planned”
This is the primary time AIFF has been banned by FIFA in its 85-year historical past, with the apex physique saying there have been “flagrant violations of the FIFA Statutes”.
