FIFA bans AIFF: Gokulam Kerala asks PM Modi to intervene after disqualification at AFC Women’s Club Championship

Gokulam Kerala sent a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking to intervene in AIFF’s ban case, in which FIFA, the sport’s global governing body suspended the All India Football Federation on Wednesday. Two.

The Kerala-based club won both the I-League and the Indian Women’s Championship this year and won automatic entry to the AFC Women’s Club Championship which will start from 23rd May. August 2022 in Qarshi, Uzbekistan.

But after the ban, it will no longer be able to participate in the competition.

“Our team arrived in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from Kozhikode in the early hours of August 16, 2022. Upon arrival we heard through various media that FIFA had banned AIFF (the Football Federation). all India),” wrote Ashok Kumar, CEO of Gokulam Kerala.

Gokulam Kerala is supposed to open the AFC WCC campaign against home team Sogdiana-W in Qarshi, Uzbekistan on August 23, and according to the letter, the team trained for sixty days from June 18 to May 16. 8 as well.

But after the ban, the 23-member team was said to be ‘disappointed coupled with suffering’.

The Asian Football Confederation sent a letter to the All India Football Confederation on 16 August 2022 stating that our club is no longer eligible to participate in the Women’s Club Competition. AFC 2022. However, AIFF has not sent any letters or letters to our club predicting that the ban will be lifted by FIFA within the next few days.

“Because of the above, we ask the good officers of the PMO to intervene in this matter and make every effort to revoke the FIFA ban and return us to the AFC Women’s Club Championship with as India’s champion club,” he added.

Gokulam Kerala is the first Indian team to qualify for the AFC Women’s Club Championship and has competed in the tournament before last year, finishing third in the four-team event.