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| Kathmandu, Thursday January 02, 2003 Paush 18, 2059. |
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I preferred football to NSC
member-secretary: Thapa
POKHARA, Jan 1 (PR)- The president of All Nepal
Football Association (ANFA) Ganesh Thapa revealed on Wednesday that he had turned down an
offer to be the member-secretary of National Sports Council to concentrate solely on
football.
Speaking at a programme organised by Sahara Club
in Pokhara, Thapa said: "I was offered the position of member-sectary at NSC. But I
can’t leave football. Football is my life."
As the tenure of present member-secretary Binod
Shankar Palikhe nears its end, guessing games are abound over the possible candidates to
take over the charge of country’s apex sports ruling body.
Thapa also hinted about the possible unification
of district football associations . "ANFA will unite all football associations at
district level as soon as possible.
"We don’t have any prejudice and are
trying our best to unite all who are not satisfied," he added.
Revealing ANFA’s target of equipping each
of the 30 district football associations with football academy, he announced that ANFA
would allocated Rs. 400,000 to each district association for the purpose. He also said
that scholarships would be provided to some 1000 talented young players across the
country.
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