PFF celebrates FIFA Fair Play Day today

Published September 21, 2008

LAHORE, Sept 20: The PFF will celebrate FIFA Fair Play Day in Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lahore on Sunday night.

AFC Aid-27 Coach Nasir Ismail (NBP), head coach of Pakistan Under-13 and 14 football teams, will arrange the FIFA Fair Play Day celebrations at Karachi’s T-Ground in between the finals of two ongoing events, the Six-a-side Under-18 Ramazan Floodlight Football Tournament and the Hadi Salim Tabani Memorial Football Tournament for Clubs. “We are organising a match between a Private Channel Combined XI and Ex-International XI for the occasion at 11.30pm,” said Nasir who is accompanied by another AFC Aid-27 coach, the former PIA’s striker Salim Patni.

Sajjad Mehmood (KRL) will host a special match at Rawalpindi’s Army Sports Complex between Army XI and Rawalpindi Combined at 11.00pm. The third activity, supervised by Asghar Khan Anjum, will be seen at 10.00pm in Lahore where an exhibition encounter before the second quarter-final (Mujahid FC v Gulshan Ravi) of the First Ramazanul Mubarak PEL Cup Football Tournament will carry the touch of FIFA Fair Play festivities at PEL Ground on Ferozpur Road.

FIFA has invited all of its 208 member associations to join in the celebrations by gathering around a football pitch, highlighting the values of fair play.

—Agencies

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