PFF yet to confirm AFC decision

Sunday, November 01, 2009
By our correspondent

KARACHI: Pakistan football authorities are yet to confirm about the Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) decision to move the Under-19 Championship Group D Qualifiers from Lahore to any other country due to security reasons.

“I came to know through a message on the AFC website and tried to contact the secretary of the continental football governing body but he was busy in a meeting,” the secretary of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Col Ahmad Yar Khan Lodhi told ‘The News’ on Saturday.

“It will be confirmed in the next two days,” he said. AFC has invited other participating member associations to host the five-team tournament, penciled in for December 8 to 16, it said. Pakistan was going all out to host the five-nation event in which apart from Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Lebanon were to feature.

“It is yet to be confirmed, but if it has really happened then it is unfortunate as we were preparing with full force,” the PFF Director Operations Pervez Saeed Mir told.