Starting them young: APFA Elite Academies to be inaugurated in three cities [Express Tribune]

Starting them young: APFA Elite Academies to be inaugurated in three cities [Express Tribune]

The APFA Elite Academies project aims to serve as a development ground for children and budding youngsters to improve their technical skills while also being trained to understand the importance of diet plans and exercise routines.

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Majid steps down as K-Electric coach [Express Tribune]

Majid steps down as K-Electric coach [Express Tribune]

Reigning Pakistan Premier Football League (PPFL) champions K-Electric (KE) will have to do without their head coach Majid Shafiq after the latter decided to part ways with the team.

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Pakistan’s Hayat keeps AFC legal posts despite breaking the law at home [IWF]

Pakistan’s Hayat keeps AFC legal posts despite breaking the law at home [IWF]

With little fanfare and hardly any publicity, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) recently proudly announced the makeup of its new standing committees for the next four years. One of those re-elected as chairman of its legal committee - was Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat, the controversial Pakistani who has been at the centre of a bitter domestic dispute.

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Back from Germany: Hajra content with her stint in Europe [Express Tribune]

Back from Germany: Hajra content with her stint in Europe [Express Tribune]

Pakistan’s top female striker Hajra Khan says her month-long trials in Germany have taught her a lot about professionalism in football — an aspect largely missing in Pakistan.

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PFF ‘acquired suitable land’ for Dr Chung-AFC project, letter reveals [Dawn]

PFF ‘acquired suitable land’ for Dr Chung-AFC project, letter reveals [Dawn]

The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) claimed it had indeed acquired land for the controversial Dr Chung/AFC project in Jhang, a letter received by Dawn on Monday reveals.

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Professionals should be appointed in PFF, says Mujahid [Dawn]

Professionals should be appointed in PFF, says Mujahid [Dawn]

Former national team captain Col Mujahidullah Tareen has asked the incumbent Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) administrator Justice Asad Munir to appoint technically-qualified people in the country’s football governing body to put the game on the right track in the country.

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AFC picks Shehzad for coaches education panel [The News]

AFC picks Shehzad for coaches education panel [The News]

Pakistan’s most qualified football coach Shehzad Anwar has been included by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in a panel which will make strategies for development of coaches’ education in Asia.

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