Another blow: No Pakistan during AFC Solidarity Cup

A record print of Pakistan football group in action. PHOTO: AFP

A record print of Pakistan football group in action. PHOTO: AFP

KARACHI: Pakistan football players are in for another hitch of despondency as a nation is set to skip nonetheless another eventuality to contest internationally with a Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Solidarity Cup usually over a month away.

The tournament, starting from Nov 2 in Malaysia, is featuring a Asian teams that crashed out of a FIFA 2018 World Cup qualifiers and a AFC Asian Cup’s rough gift rounds.

Pakistan withdrew their appearance in another part of football’s loitering both in a domestic and general arenas due to infighting among Pakistan Football Federation’s (PFF) dual opposition factions and a successive impasse of a Lahore High Court (LHC).

Nepal will be a tip group in a eventuality with a universe ranking of 186, with Mongolia down on a 202nd spot.

Withdrawal from a eventuality will serve pull Pakistan down from their 194th rank.

“It’s embarrassing, humiliating and astray to a players,” midfielder Saadullah, who recently returned to Pakistan after a debate of Europe for rough trials during Hungarian bar Somos Sport Egyesu KFT, told The Express Tribune.

“A year and a half has already been squandered given of a federation’s energy struggle. It’s us, a players, who are being tortured. We are in a primary now, though they caring conjunction for us nor for a destiny of a game.”

Meanwhile, a FIFA-backed coterie of Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat explained that they did not have a resources or a time to ready a group as there are reduction than dual months left for a eventuality to start.

On a other hand, a LHC-backed PFF administration pronounced they have requested a AFC to recur Pakistan’s appearance as their coterie will try to ready a group for a Solidarity Cup in time.

“We can usually ask them to authorize us to send a team, though given they recognize Hayat, we unequivocally can’t do much,” pronounced PFF central Rauf Bari.

Published in The Express Tribune, Sep 21st, 2016.

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