A participant of the Pakistan ladies’s soccer group throughout a apply session on this undated photograph. — Fb/@PakistanFootballOfficial
KARACHI: The participation of the Pakistan ladies’s soccer group on this month’s South Asian Soccer Federation (SAFF) Girls’s Championship is in doldrums because the Pakistan Sports activities Board (PSB) refused to situation a no-objection certificates (NOC).
The match is scheduled to be held from October 17 to 30 in Nepal.
In a letter despatched to the Pakistan Soccer Federation (PFF), the PSB cited delays in submitting the request and the absence of the required signature from the chairman of the Normalisation Committee (NC). These points led the PSB to say no the NOC request.
The PSB had beforehand reminded the PFF on September 12 in regards to the needed protocols for acquiring the NOC.
Nevertheless, the soccer federation’s submission was not solely delayed but in addition lacked the signature of the NC chairman. The PSB said that such omissions made it inconceivable to course of the appliance.
Within the letter, the sports activities board famous: “Since the instructions issued by the PSB have not been followed, we regret to inform you that, due to time constraints and non-compliance with our procedural requirements, the PSB is unable to process the NOC request for participation in this event.”
Sources inside the PFF confirmed that the NOC request for the SAFF Girls’s Championship was submitted on September 16. Nevertheless, the request was signed by NC member Shahid Khokhar as a substitute of chairman Haroon Malik.
The Pakistan ladies’s soccer group is presently holding a coaching camp in Islamabad, with plans to depart for Nepal on October 12.
The absence of the NOC, nonetheless, raises uncertainty in regards to the group’s participation within the match.
Pakistan soccer groups have confronted related challenges with NOC points prior to now, resulting in tensions between the PFF and PSB.
Whereas last-minute resolutions have been achieved in earlier situations, this time, the matter stays unresolved.
