Youth training camp from Sunday

Published September 2, 2005

LAHORE, Sept 1: The national Youth football training camp will start at the Punjab Stadium from Sunday. The camp is being set up to select and prepare a team which will compete in the AFC Youth championship qualifying round to be held in Tajikistan from Nov 23 to 25.

Pakistan meet Uzbekistan on Nov 23 and the hosts on Nov 25.

Siddiq Sheikh, Muhammad Rasheed and Zafar Iqbal will train the youth.

PFF president Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat has approved 40 players for the camp including six goal-keepers, 16 defenders, ten midfielders and eight strikers.

Probables: Imran, Bilal Rafiq, Abid Ali, Ghulam Nabi ,Tariq Mehmood, Basit, Akmal, M.Waseem, Omair Aslam, Adil Ahmed, Bashir (Balochistan) Naqeeb Ullah, Shehbaz , Khalid Zaman, Sameer Ullah, Azam, Adnan, Zubair Moazam, Shahid Nabi, Muhammad Ahmed, Ghulam Mustafa,Yasir Afridi, Jaffar Ali, Nadeem Abbas, Awais Shinwari, Jadeed Khan, Asmat Khan, Khalid Munir, Waqar Ali (Punjab), Waqas Ali, Asghar, Faisal Ikram, Abbas Ali, Abdul Wahab, Ali Ehsan, Abdul Rehman, Waqar,Muhammad Ishtiaq, Tanvir and Imran Hashmi.

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