July 01, 2008	Tuesday	Jamadi-us-Sani 26, 1429

KARACHI, June 30: The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) is organising a two-day conference of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) AID-27 coaches at the FIFA Football House in Lahore starting on Tuesday.

The quarterly meeting, involving the 27 coaches working under AFC’s financial assistance scheme in Pakistan, besides reviewing the coaches’ last three months’ work in promoting football at the grassroots level here, would also look into assigning them more responsibility in view of PFF’s Vision 2020 plan, unveiled and approved at its congress and executive committee meeting on June 21.

The PFF, under its Vision 2020 programme, is to set up various Football Youth Development Centres (FYDC) at Karachi, Hyderabad, Lahore, Faisalabad, Peshawar, D.I. Khan, FATA, Northern Areas and Islamabad in order to further popularise the sport among the youth while striving to build a team that will be considered among the top 15 soccer teams of Asia to qualify for the World Cup, Olympics as well as other FIFA age-limit competitions.

The 27 coaches to attend the meeting are: Bilal Ahmed Butt, Nauman Ibrahim, Rana Zahir Ahmed, Tanveer Ahmed, Mohammad Habib, Shahzad Anwar, Sajjad Mahmood Khan, Mohammad Rashid, Hassan Baloch, Nasir Ismail, Salim Patni, Zafar Iqbal, Niaz Ahmed Abro, Abdul Karim, Najibullah Najmi, Haji Abdul Sattar, Gohar Zaman, Qazi Wajid Ali, Fazl-e-Ghaffar, Saeedullah, Faisal Amir Ahmed Khan, Mohammad Saleem, Haji Mohammad Aslam, Mohammad Asghar, Iftikhar Ahmed Ghani, Mohammad Asghar and Mohammad Siddique.