U-13 football team departs

Published May 3, 2007

LAHORE, May 2: A 22-member Pakistan under-13 football squad left the city on Wednesday to participate in the AFC U-13 Festival of Football in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from May 4 to 8.

Karachi-born Abdul Waheed is leading the side while Rasool Bakhsh is his deputy.

The team will return home on May 10.

Squad:

Ahsanullah, Wahab Mahmood, Moaz Akbar, Adeel Khalid, Rasool Bakhsh, Awais Anwar, Mohammad Sajid, Hassan Saleem Khan, Asif Waris, Yaqoob Moosa, Mohammad Salman, Ahmad Faheem, Hafiz Ahmed Nisar, Abdul Waheed, Mohammad Akram, Irfan Younus, Mudasar Mukhtar, Naveed Sadiq, Waleed Hameed, Hassan Khan, Zain-ul-Islam, Faheem Shah.

Officials: Mohammad Arif Siddiqui, Syed Nasir Ismail, Mohammad Habib, Hafiz Anees Javed and Kamran Mehdi.—APP

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