LAHORE,Sept 21 (APP)- Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) short listed 35 players for attending a training camp to prepare National U-23 team to appear in soccer event of Asian Games being held from November 12-27 at Chinese city Guangzhou.The camp is in progress here at Punjab Stadium and MTFA ground under the supervision of experienced experts of the game.In all 13 players were axed from the camp due to lack of performance.
The eight-day conditioning camp had been held at Model Town Football Academy Ground during Ramzan Ul Mubarak and PFF Youth Development Director Muhammad Siddiq Sheikh, coach Akhtar Mohiuddin, Assistant Coaches Hassan Baloch, Asghar Khan Anjum and GK Coach Noman Ibrahim were in attendance. The Camp will be comprised 4 goal keepers, 11 defenders, 12 midfielders and 8 strikers.
Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) President Faisal Saleh Hayat had earlier approved 48 probables in the provisional squad submitted for participation in the coming Asian Games 2010 of which Saqib Hanif , Ghazanfar Abbas , Amjad Iqbal , Abdul Jabbar, Bilal Butt, Saad Ullah, Zubair Ahmed, Asif Bakhsh, Steven Collins, Muhammad Essa Khan, Arif Mehmood, Muhammad Qasim, Muhammad Rasool were axed.
The final 20-man squad is to be announced by coach Mohiuddin after the four-week foreign Training Camp, expected to be held at South Korea.
It will be eighth trip to Asian Games for Pakistan who appeared in seven editions out of 15 so far in Manila 1954, Tokyo 1958, Tehran 1974, Seoul 1986, Beijing 1990, Busan 2002, Doha 2006. They missed the soccer event of quadrennial Games eight times at New Delhi 1951,1982 Jakarta 1962, Bangkok 1966,1970, 1978, 1998, Hiroshima 1994.
“ We have picked the best available players for the Asian Games,” said Mohiuddin. Following will attend the camp,
Goal Keepers (4): Amir Gul (NBP), Muzammil Hussain (WAPDA), Jaffar Khan (Army), Jehangir Khan (Afghan FC).
Defenders (11): Haider Ali (WAPDA), Manzoor Ahmed (WAPDA), Umer Farooq (KESC), Samar Ishaq (KRL), Shabir Khan (Worchester City), Atif Bashir (Barry Town), Ahsan Ullah (PEL), Aurangzaib (HBL), Ali Ehsan (PIA), Muhammad Ahmed (WAPDA), Faraz Ahmed (Foreign).
Midfielders (12): Reis Ashraf (Buckingham Town), Jadeed Khan (WAPDA), Mehmood Khan Jr (KRL), Adnan Farooq (Ferencvárosi Torna Club), Muhammad Adil (KRL), Muhammad Tauseef (Islamabad), Abbas Ali (NBP), Faisal Iqbal (NBP), Muhammad Riaz (KESC), Muhammad Rashid (PEL), Yasir Afridi (KRL), Irfan Khan (Bradford).
Strikers (8): Kalim Ullah Khan (KRL), Asif Mehmood (Pak Navy), Rizwan Asif (KRL), Saddam Hussain (PIA), Asim Mansoor (Young Blood), Zain Ullah, (WAPDA), Shah Noor Abbasi (Osset Town), Aneel Azeem (Ash United).
go pakistan go, win all the matches!!!! try to bring in more foriegn players and make sure we vhoose the foreign players as they have more experience and skills.
Shabbir Khan is unfit but PFF is including his name. Is PFF not coordinating players before including their names in Squad
The only problem with pakistan team is the proper game planning and less of match exposure
This time our football team is not as strong as it was in 2006. Only few good players are in our team jaffer khan and Samar Ishaq, and foriegn origin Pakistanis. I do not expect any thing big from this team. Even if they gave tough fight to other team, it would be good performance. The best performance would to come come up with draw in some match. Rest depends what type of group we will get in Asian Games. With this pakistani coach who failed to deliver, will again give disappointment. It was better to have Salman Sharida as our coach. Due lathergic attitude of our PFF we lost such a great such coach. Pakistan should taken spanish, italian or argentenian coach instead of tried Mohiudin. If our team really has to come up with improved performance, they need to improve thier fitness, team coordination, better playing style, better formation and better handling of match strategy.
y their is no steve collins and wat about bilal butt….he is amazing…..some new faces are included but they shud had added amjad, bilal and collins….this is awful selection to me
what kind of selection is this no rasool and essa the two match winning players.
No essa no rasool its going to be very tough though i have beleif that inshallah our team will succeed
inshallah this team does well but to me they have left some top players out. I went to the match against woking and they had good players billal butt steve collins ayaz uddin but where are they in selection? This team wil do it but could have been stronger aswell.
Why is the big talentet keeper Yousuf Butt not short listed ??
i would think this kid would be the star of the team after looking at woking game. He was the only player that was any good !!
The kid is only 20 and he plays like he is 30 years old, and have been in the game forever !!
the PFF should get a hold of him !!
The impression I got of Yousuf Butt based on the Woking match was that he is not really better than domestic keepers such as Bilal Rafiq, Abdul Aziz, or Jaffer Khan. He was responsible for a few of the goals scored by Woking.
GGGOOOOOoOODDDDD luck PAK team ,play for your country not for your self, consen trate on yuor game, play with HEART n MIND first then with feet. LOVE u MY PAK players.
Agreed. Hope this idea gets in mind of our players.
nantional team ka coach change kar k saqib omer ko team k sath lagana chahea …he is a oneof best coach in world …………..saqib bhai plz app b pff ki ya offer accept kar lean plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
what team does he coach?
Karachi United FC have two coaches who have done and are doing their coaching licenses in England, Imran Ali and Adeel Rizki. They both also have extensive experience with youth coaching. The PFF should use these guys for the national youth teams.
i am also interested to get my licence from uk please advice me
I’ve played some football with Ahsanullah & Abbas Hussain. :) They will become legend Inshallah