As All India Football Federation (AIFF) is gearing up its operation and refinement of infrastructure for hosting the U-17 World Cup in India, FIFA on the other hand has allocated 38 million dollar for the entire tournament. This lucrative fund has been set in order to help India organize the 2017 U – 17 World Cup. The FIFA Congress meeting had been attended by AIFF Vice President Subhas Chopra in Sao Paolo just two days before the start of the World Cup 2014. The announcement of the fund allocation has been made for the organizational purpose only.
Chopra was also accompanied to Brazil by AIFF treasurer Hardev Jadeja and executive committee member Ankur Dutta as a part of the AIFF delegation. The team is thrilled to visit the FIFA office as they found FIFA President Sepp Blatter to be very positive and committed in helping India host this successful tournament. AIFF is also gaining major support from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in this regard. The role of AIFF President Praful Patel has been highly appreciated by these international bodies in driving the governing body to take up major initiatives in professionalizing the sport in the country.
Recently a two – member FIFA delegated team visited India in order to supervise the eight stadiums where the tournament will be hosted. The team also visited Goa who had expressed in hosting the final match of the tournament. With Praful Patel contributions, AIFF has reformulated its strategies in making the sport even more attractive. AIFF is maintaining a stringent method in selecting the players for the U-17 World Cup and is also taking care of retaining the integrity of the game. To serve this purpose, an integrity officer has been appointed who is going to monitor all the pros and cons of the team so that no corruption or malpractices like match fixing takes place.
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