LAHORE, Aug 17: Fifty-five probables will attend the national Under-16 football training camp, starting from Saturday to select the Pakistan team which will take part in the 13th AFC Under-16 championship to be held in Qatar from Oct 17 to 28.

Pakistan are in pool ‘A’ with strong Arab nations Syria, Yemen, Oman, Qatar and Central Asian Kyrgyzstan. Players born on or after January 1, 1992 were picked up for the camp. The event is a qualifier for the FIFA U-17 World Cup-2009.

The probables are to report to Lahore’s FIFA Football House on Saturday with an original Nadra Form-B, three recent photographs, a soccer playing kit and proper clothing.

Probables:

Sindh Reds: Aamir Khan, Mohammad Ali, Sameer Hussain, Obaid Ullah, Ejaz Khan, Junaid Qadir, Habib Ullah, Mohammad Bakhsh, Imran Abdullah, Mohammad Usman, Bilal Afridi and Samir Mohammad.

Balochistan Reds: Ghulam Raza, Mohammad Yusuf, Goram Khan, Wali Muhammad, Ehsan Ullah, Bilawal Ali, Jaleel Khan, Zareef Ahmed, Sabir Ali and Riaz Ahmed.

Punjab Greens: Muzammil Hussain, Haider Ali, Muhammad Sumair, Muhammad Sufain, Muhammad Tanveer, Shahid Zameer, Usman Manzoor, Nasir Dar and Ghazafar Ali

Punjab Reds: Zaid Arif, Farooq Ahmed, Adil Ahmed, Muhammad Bilal, Faisal Iqbal and Usama Bilal.

Wohaib FC: Hikmat Ullah, Ali Basher, Adnan Nawaz and Muhammad Owais.

NWFP Greens: Saqib Hanif, Aamir Siddique, Waheed Hameed and Obaid Ullah.

Afghan FC: Kaleem Ahmed, Medmood Raza, Ameer Hamza.

Islamabad: Adil Mahmood and Bilal Tariq Crown FC, Khanewal: Ali Raza and Shah Nawaz.

NWFP Reds: Arslan Khan and Asad Ullah.

Northern Areas: Kamil Khan.

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