SAFF Thread

Maldives U-23 team has been invited to play a 4-team friendly tournament in Indonesia, to be held from 20-24th of this month. FAM say they are 90% certain that they are going to accept the invitation (whatever the hell that means). Practice sessions in preparation for the tournament have already begun. The other 3 teams that are participating are U-23 teams of Indonesia, Myanmar and Papua New Guinea.

 

KRL has been drawing a fair few times this season

 

How the hell do you get this info? I'm in England and can't find nothing about Pakistani league expect for the website

 

thanks

 

Yesterday was the election for the president and vice president positions for SAFF. Does someone know the results?

Also, one agenda point was the launch of SAFF Club championship, is it agreed?

 

Kazi Salahuddin re-elected SAFF president [DAWN]

For the next term — from 2014 to 2018 — Shah will be joined by Ugeyen Dorgi of Bhuthan and Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) chief Ranjith Rodrigo as vice-presidents of South Asia’s football governing body.
In the elections for the post, Rodrigo received six out of seven votes in the eight-member SAFF with Afghanistan not being present for the Congress.

http://www.footballpakistan.com/2014/03/kazi-salahuddin-re-elected-saff-president-dawn/

 

What if this means Afghanistan will leave saff

 

Actually, there are discussions about Afghanistan leaving SAFF. In an event hosted by Tajikistan Football Federation last week, the representatives from 4 Central Asian Countries, Afghanistan and Iran did discuss formation of the Central Asian Football Federation.

 

That would be a huge step in the right direction for Afghanistan I hope it happens.

 

I think both Saff and Caff should combine..
There is no point having 13 nations into 2 federations

 

I pretty much agree

 

I think there is talk that CAFF will be re-organised and will include Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan and Turkmenistan. Reason Iran wants to be apart of it is that it wants to move away from the "west Asian teams and further develop neighboring counties. Afghanistan is counted as central asian which is why they are potentially included (and will move away from SAFF)

 

I think this would help develop the smaller Central Asian teams allot since they would play allot more matches every year.

 

It doers make sense developing CAFF as at the moment its only 4 nations and they do not have any regional tournaments (besides CIS Cup with other ex soviet nations), plus Iran is in central asia (Not west) as is Afghanistan.

 

There is but there isnt.. if that makes sense..

 

So what's the latest news regarding Afghanistan's switch to CAFF? I think the AFC Challenge Cup proved that CAFF nations need more match practice at international level. And by that I mean against national teams, not Russian regional 3rd division clubs. Such an allegiance might prove useful for those nations, although with the proposed qualifying format by AFC, the regional competitions look set to be vital stepping stones for junior age groups rather than being the Holy Grail for the emerging/developing nations.

Speaking of which, the 2014 Mahinda Rajapaksa International Football Trophy is scheduled to be held in Addu City later this year. It will act mainly as a preparatory tournament for Under-23 teams of Maldives, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka ahead of the Asian Games in Incheon.

 

No merger, but Afghanistan are Iran are planning to join CAFF.

 

So Afghanistan are all but out of SAFF region.