The All India Soccer Federation (AIFF) will host the knock-out levels of the Santosh Trophy in both Jeddah or Riyadh in Saudi Arabia for 3 years, AIFF president Kalyan Chaubey stated on Saturday.
AIFF on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with their Saudi Arabian counterparts to “examine the chance to stage the ultimate levels of the Santosh Trophy within the West Asian nation in February 2023.”
“The MoU that we signed with the Saudi Soccer Federation, one was for internet hosting Santosh Trophy in Jeddah and Riyadh,” Chaubey instructed PTI throughout an interplay.
“Jeddah has extra Indian inhabitants there, however Riyadh is the capital. And so the federal government there can membership it along with artwork and tradition. So these are the areas we are going to focus on and perhaps by January we’ll take a last name,” stated BJP chief Chaubey.
The MoU was signed in Dammam. “We’ll make it for 3 years. See it,will not be that straightforward. One 12 months, it is probably not profitable, as a result of a number of surprising challenges will come however that doesn’t imply you cease this match,” he stated.
“So it is a three years factor and I am positive year-wise we are going to do effectively. We positively must see what’s the tempo of enchancment, the place are we enhancing, and whether or not it’s 10% development price or a development of fifty%. So now we have to watch it correctly.”
Chaubey desires “equal pay” for women and men gamers
Chaubey stated AIFF is planning to implement equal pay for males’s and ladies’s footballers within the nation.
“I’ve realised as a former participant until you’re paid a good remuneration, you possibly can’t really feel motivated so I really feel you will need to honour the ladies footballers.
“We’ll converse to numerous stakeholders in order that we will take away the disparity of males’s and ladies’s soccer. We’ll make sure that.”
The 45-year-old from Kolkata stated AIFF will provide you with an everyday calendar for girls’s soccer.
“As a part of MoU, we are going to create publicity matches by organising three-nation tournaments twice in a 12 months, so that you get six matches to play,”
“As soon as it may be in Northeast or Bangalore in India when it’s sizzling within the center east and in winter time we will have it within the Gulf. It will likely be for u-17 and u-19, initially, it is going to be for boys and regularly it is going to be for girls.” “We’ll provide you with a calendar the place the ladies can play within the ladies’s league… the way in which they’re doing, we are going to quickly be ready to be Asian champions.
“This U-17 World Cup crew is at a nascent stage. As soon as they get the boldness and if we will nurture this crew, it could play the U-23 world cup and 6 years down the road, a few of them will probably be recognized face in ladies’s soccer on the planet,” he concluded.