LAHORE, March 31: Preparations to select Pakistan U-14 team for the Asian Football Confederation event are under way at the training camp at the Punjab Stadium.

Sixty probables are attending the camp since March 29. The camp will remain in order till the departure of the team for Iran to take part in the AFC event to be held there from May 10 to 18.

More players are expected to join the camp as various players have been selected by holding country-wide open trials on March 14 and 15, in Lahore, Peshawar, Islamabad, Quetta and Karachi.

Probables:

Punjab (10): Mudassir Mukhtar, Ahmed Faheem, Hassan Saleem, Zain Ul Islam, Hassan Khan, Usman Mukhtar, Sohail Ahmed, Hasnain Arshad, Kashif, Wahab Mehmood

Karachi Yellows (8) : Ahsan Ullah, Asif Waris, Abdul Waheed, Faheem Shah, Irfan Younus, Muhammad Awais, Wali Khaista, Uzair.

Faisalabad Greens (7): Muhammad Sajid, Moaz Akber, Muhammad Ikram, Muhammad Waris, Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Noman, Muhammad Kashif.

Sindh (7): Fida Hussain, Saddam Hussain, Abdul Haq, Abdul Rauf, Aamir Mubarak, Aamir Ogan, Yasir Ali.

Wohaib Club (6): Hafiz Nisar Ahmed, Hafiz Ghazanfar, Muhammad Salman, Azmat, Muhammad Naveed, Fazal Muhammad.

Faisalabad Reds (4) : Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Ansar, Fazal Mehmood, Tabish Kaleem.

NWFP (4): Awais Anwar, Waleed Hameed, Moeed, Muhammad Suleman.

Balochistan (4) : Sharoz Khan, Muhammad Wasim, Fazal Muhammad, Muhammad Ahsan

PMC (3) : Adeel Khalid, Samar Iqbal, Muhammad Zaman.

Jacobabad (2) : Tahir Ali, Abrar Ali.

Northern Areas (1) : Kamil Hussain

Afghan FC (1): Muhammad Hanif

FATA (1) : Wajid Ullah. Sahiwal (1) : Abrar. Islamabad (1) : Shadman.

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