Das and Dhar to represent AIFF at AFC meeting

General secretary Kushal Das and I-League CEO Sunando Dhar will represent the All India Football Federation (AIFF) at the June 7 meeting of all stakeholders at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

According to IANS news report, AIFF president Praful Patel will skip the meet where all I-League and Indian Super League (ISL) clubs have been invited to discuss the next course of action as Football Sports Development Ltd (FSDL), the organisers of ISL, mulls a longer league adding at least three more franchises to the existing eight.

“Me and Sunando will attend the meeting in Kuala Lumpur,” Das told IANS on Monday.

The meeting, which will be chaired by the AFC General Secretary Dato’ Windsor John, will be attended by the appropriate AFC Directors.

Senior representatives from FIFA, as well as senior representatives from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India have also been invited.

Windsor John was recently in New Delhi at the invitation of Patel to discuss the future roadmap for Indian football. It was there that the June 7 meeting was decided.

Currently, the AIFF and FSDL are in a fix on including city giants East Bengal and Mohun Bagan in the newly planned longer league as both outfits have not submitted the bid documents, refusing to budge from their three-point demands.

The two bigwigs have refused to pay franchise fee of Rs 15 crore and have also asked for money from the central revenue pool and said they would like to play their home games in Kolkata.

In a meeting recently with state body Indian Football Association (IFA), the clubs said the venue won’t be a problem as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said an amicable solution will be reached after talking to three clubs which includes ISL champions Atletico de Kolkata.

The IFA is supposed to send a mail to the AIFF asking about the “roadmap”, which was promised to them by president Patel during the May 7 meeting in Mumbai.

SportFootball-ISLNewsLatest NewsTrending U-17 World Cup final for a mere Rs 48!

Under-17 World Cup final can be watched live in the stadium for a mere Rs 48. The under-17 World Cup director Javier Ceppi has confirmed that a 60% discount is offered on the low-price tickets. The final is slated to be played at Kolkata on October 28.

The under-17 football World Cup will be held in six cities — Kolkata, Navi Mumbai, New Delhi, Guwahati, Kochi and Panaji — from October 6 to 28.

The City of Joy will host 10 matches, including the final. Some of the tickets for all the 10 games are available at Rs 480 for all the 10 matches. The next category is priced at Rs 960 for the season, whereas watching all the 10 games from even better category three blocks will cost Rs 1920.

A limited number of ‎tickets in blocks will be available from 19:11 on Tuesday from the fifa.comwebsite, it was announced in Kolkata.

‎These tickets will be available till July 7 when the draw will be made. After the draw, team delegates will visit all six venues.

After the draw, tickets sales for individual matches will start. Initially, there will be a 25% discount on the marked price. Closer to the tournament, these tickets can also be bought from ticket windows.

‎Ceppi said these limited number of tickets available from Tuesday to July 7 will also help identify the real football fan because they won’t know which matches they are going to see. “We will give out the name of the city which buys the maximum number of tickets,” said Ceppi. “The 60% discount is available only for the first phase of ticket sales.”

‘Happy with progress in Kochi’

Ceppi also said he is happy with the progress made in Kochi where work had been behind schedule. An arrangement has been reached to have the shops that fringe the stadium closed 10 days before the first match there, he said.

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