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ANFA Inter-academy football from today
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Sept 23 - The All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) is organising
ANFA Cup Inter-academy football tournament from today, at the Jawalakhel Football Ground.
The tournament, which will run for five days will feature about 77
footballers, who are under care of ANFA junior football project.
Among 77, the Depot School of Dharan has 25 trainees, while Elite Co-ed and
Gyanodaya School of Kathmandu share 26 each. All the three schools will send two teams for
the tournament.
The tournament provides the stage for the youngsters to be selected for
upcoming Asian Youth Under-14 Football Festival, which will be held in Bangladesh from
October 25 to November 1. A total of eight teams will compete in the tournament, which is
being organised by Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the first time.
The selected footballers from the Academy team will play another phase of
selection tournament with the players selected in open selection last week. More than 40
players have been selected form the inter-school tournament and open selection.
Altogether 20 players will be selected for the final squad for Bangladesh
tour, informed Ganesh Thapa the president of FIFA affiliated ANFA at a press conference on
Sunday.
"Our intention is to pick up the strongest and genuine players for the
tour of Bangladesh as we have chances of winning the tournament," adds Ganesh Thapa .
Eight teams from Asia including Bangladesh, India, Kazakastan, Nepal,
Maldives , Laos, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan will take part in the tournament.
Gyanodaya Academy team ‘A’ will meet Laboratory Academy team
‘B’ in the tournament’s first match, while Laboratory ‘A’ will
take on Gyanodaya ‘B’ in the second match today. |
