Fifty invited for Under-20 camp

Published September 3, 2003

LAHORE, Sept 2: Fifty probables have been called to attend the national Under-20 football training camp to be held at the Jinnah Stadium from Friday.

The probables were selected after holding two-day trials held at the same venue on Aug 25 and 26.

The camp is being set up to finalise Pakistan team for the participation in the AFC Under-20 Championship qualifying round to be held either in Bangladesh or Nepal from Oct 18 this year. The decision to select the host country, will be taken in the next AFC meeting to be held in Kuala Lumpur on Sept 12.

The probables will report to the chief coach Tariq Lutfi and the coach Siddique Sheikh.

To reduce the probables to 30, another session of trials will be held on Sept 8. The list of 30 will be communicated to the AFC as the deadline for it is Sept 10. Later, the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) will convey the names of the final team from those 30 probables.

Probables:

Zubair, Mohammad Ilyas, Mehmood Ahmed, Ejaz Ahmed, Maqbool Maseih, Mubashir, Yasir, Imran Hussain, Kashif, Tanveer (Army), Sajjad, Qamar Zaman, Imran Niazi, Luqman, Kamran Khan (Wapda), Zahid Gill, Yasir Sabir, Abdul Ghani, Abdul Haq, Muhammad Shahbaz, Saleem Butt, Naimat Gul, Sibghatullah, Zahid Hameed, Omar Akbar (PTCL), Yasir Kiani, Abdul Waseem, Abdul Razzaq (Punjab), Naseer Khan, Attaullah, Mansoor Ahmed, Naveed Akhtar, Mohammad Irfan, Sultan Hussain, Imran Khan, Majid Ali, Shakoor (NWFP), Ejaz Ahmed, Muhammad Arif (Baluchistan), Etazaz Ahsan, Babar Ali, Faisal (Sindh), Sardar Ali (Mardan), Mujahid,Zahid (Sialkot), Mubashir Rafique, Tauqeer Hussain (Islamabad), Waseem Abbas, Jehanzaib Rana, Kaleemullah (Railways).

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