LAHORE, Oct 1: Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) on Saturday announced the names of forty players for a training camp to select a team for AFC Youth Football championship to be played in Tajikistan in November.

“The players who include six goal-keepers, 16 defenders, 10 mid-fielders and six strikers were approved by president PFF and the camp will begin from Sunday in Punjab stadium,” said a spokesman for the PFF.

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

Pakistani team will participate in AFC Youth Championship qualifiers against Uzbekistan on Nov 23 and Tajikistan on Nov 25 in Tajikistan.

The players called for camp are: Imran, Tariq Mehmood, Shehbaz, Ghulam Mustafa, Jaffar Ali, Khalid Munir (Army); Bilal Rafiq, Shahid Nabi, Muhammad Ahmed (Wohaib FC); Abid Ali, Naqeeb Ullah, Faisal Ikram, M.Waseem (NWFP); Ghulam Nabi, Bashir, Jadeed Khan, Asmat Khan, Waqas Ali, Abbas Ali, Imran Hashmi, Asghar (Balochistan); Basit, Adil Ahmed, Adnan, Zubail Moazam, Nadeem Abbas, Waqar Ali, Ali Ehsan, Tavir (Punjab), Abdul Wahab, Akmal, Azam, Ishtiaq (Sindh), Omair Aslam (Islamabad), Sameer Ullah, Yasir Afridi, Awais Shinwari (FATA), Abdul Wahab (Sindh), Abdul Rehman (AJK), Waqar (Northern Area).—Agencies