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© AIFF president Praful Patel Kiren Rijiju attended an occasion in New Delhi.
India on Wednesday joined a five-nation race to host the 2027 Asian Cup, the continent’s greatest soccer event, because it steps up efforts to safe worldwide sporting recognition. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have already formally entered the fray and an All India Football Federation (AIFF) spokesman stated the nation’s paperwork could be despatched to the Asian Football Confederation this week.
Iran and Uzbekistan have additionally stated they’ll bid.
India, as soon as known as a “sleeping giant” of soccer by former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, has stepped up its curiosity in internet hosting worldwide occasions in recent times.
It placed on the 2017 under-17 males’s World Cup and can host the 2022 girls’s Asian Cup and the 2021 under-17 girls’s World Cup. India can be contemplating a bid for the 2032 Olympics.
AIFF president Praful Patel stated the Asian Cup bid would additional the nation’s popularity as an rising soccer nation.
“We look at it positively, we look at it aggressively. I have no doubt in my mind that India as a footballing nation by 2027 should be ready to not only host it but to participate in it meaningfully,” Patel informed reporters.
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Sports minister Kiren Rijiju stated internet hosting the Asian Cup could be “a huge milestone” for the cricket-mad nation of 1.three billion individuals.
India’s males are presently ranked 104th in FIFA’s world rankings however the launch of the Indian Super League (ISL) has introduced elevated worldwide consideration to the nation.
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