AIFF Hints At Extension For Head Coach Thomas Dennerby, Eyes Role For U-17 Players In Future Senior Team | Football News

Head coach Thomas Dennerby might proceed, however the journey of a number of of his Indian gamers has ended even earlier than they might hit the street to fame, courtesy the cancellation of subsequent 12 months’s FIFA Women’s U-17 World Cup. Having labored so exhausting and for therefore lengthy, they’re now going to overlook the mega-event for no fault of theirs. The All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Wednesday assured them that they’d be thought-about for choice to the senior workforce within the close to future. 

“I believe that some players, who are 2005 born in this team, may qualify to play in the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2022. FIFA (has) not yet (given age cut-offs) but we believe it will be 2005-2007 born,” AIFF basic secretary Kushal Das advised PTI. 

“All these players are part of an overall plan to develop women’s football. They will continue to be part of the national camp.” 

“This team will be the core team to play in round one of AFC U-20 Women’s Asian Cup qualifiers in March 2021 in view of their training and exposure so far.” 

He stated many of those gamers (who will miss out on the 2022 Women’s U-17 World Cup) “will make it” to the senior nationwide workforce for the AFC Asian Women’s Cup in 2022, which the nation is internet hosting. 

The match in India, which was postponed to 2021 as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, was on Tuesday cancelled by the world governing physique FIFA and the nation was handed the internet hosting rights of the 2022 version. 

More than half of the gamers who had been known as for nationwide camp final 12 months to arrange for the now-scrapped 2020 version of the match shall be over the age of 19 by 2022. The AIFF intends to kind an Indian Arrows ladies’s workforce (like the boys’s facet that has been participating within the I-League) to play within the Hero Indian Women’s League. 

Das indicated that head coach Dennerby shall be in command of the Indian workforce within the 2022 version following a contract extension. 

“We believe Thomas is the right coach for the U-17 World Cup team. He has now gained experience of India and has a good track record and a very good rapport with the support staff.” 

“We will certainly be discussing with the AIFF Technical Committee to extend his contract,” he stated. 

Asked if these international locations which have certified for the 2020 match like Japan, Spain, England and Germany will stay for the 2022 version, he stated, “While no clarity as yet but it seems logical that since the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2020 is cancelled and there is likely to be a new age group, the qualifiers will be played again.” 

He stated there shall be no monetary loss on the a part of the AIFF resulting from cancellation and the nationwide federation will talk about with FIFA about persevering with with the present Local Organising Committee until 2022. 

Das stated the FIFA had taken the “best decision” to cancel the 2020 match as “we are not still not certain about 2021” so far as the pandemic is worried. 

“There is no point scheduling a world cup in an uncertain situation and playing in a stadium without spectators.” 

“Hopefully, a vaccine will be developed and be available by mid-2021 and life will be back to normal thereafter.” 

He stated internet hosting each the FIFA Women’s U-17 World Cup and the AFC Women’s Asian Cup in 2022 will give an excellent fillip to ladies’s soccer in India and assist in getting ready groups for qualification for the Women’s Asian Cup 2026 and the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2027. 

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The determination was taken by the Bureau of the FIFA Council which took inventory of the scenario arising out of the pandemic and its persevering with affect on soccer. 

The FIFA cancelled each the ladies’s U-17 World Cup and U-20 World Cup which had been scheduled to be held in India and Costa Rica respectively, however handed each the international locations the internet hosting rights of the 2022 editions.