AFC appoints match commissioner

Published November 30, 2005

KARACHI, Nov 29: Asian Football Federation (AFC) appointed Lebanon’s Fouad Abdul Karim Jaroudi as match commissioner during SAFF Championship to be played at Peoples Sports Complex on Dec 7-17.

AFC also named three Pakistani FIFA referees in the 15-referee panel.

They are: Asif Kiyani, Imtiaz Ali Shah and Hidayatullah.

The referees during gala

will be:

Abdul Hannan Miron (Bangladesh), Suresh Srinivasan (India), Raja Shrestha Gyanu (Nepal), Hettikamkanamge Dilan Perera (Sri Lanka), Khodadad Afsharian (Iran) and Mukhtar Al Yarimi (Yemen AR) while Ka Yu Fung (Hong Kong), Reza Sokhandan (Iran), Raja Haja Maidin B A Peer Mohd (Singapore), Hasson Hussain Kurma (Yemen AR), Tshering Chophel (Bhutan), Ibrahim Thauffeq (Maldives). —Agencies

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