Nationwide News
PFF Normalisation Committee offers Goal project to Balochistan govt for relief work [Express Tribune]
Quetta Goal Project offered as quarantine facility.
FIFA Goal Project
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FIFA
‘PFF chief asked FIFA president for mandate extension in meeting’ [Dawn]
Faisal Saleh Hayat requested 3 year extension to his mandate (which expired in Sep 2017) as he feels threatened by the new government.
Nationwide News
FIFA sets strict compliance standards for development projects
FIFA announces that each Federation can get up to $5 million over a 4 year period but must meet strict criteria about their spending.
Nationwide News
PFF responsible for non-functional Goal projects, indicates FIFA [Dawn]
FIFA says incomplete Goal Projects in Pakistan are sole responsibility of the crisis-ridden PFF, writes Umaid Wasim
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FIFA increases development aid but PFF presents classic case for concern [Dawn]
Umaid Wasim writes on how FIFA's increased funding may not be good for a PFF already facing controversies over incomplete projects, election disputes, court…
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Pitchless stadium: Incomplete Goal Project finally sees some action [Express Tribune]
Incomplete FIFA Goal Project at Hawkes Bay, Karachi used as venue for AFC Grassroots Football Day 2016 by Sindh FA and DFA West
National Competitions
Of corruption, despotism and power-struggles: into the murky world of football in Pakistan [Catch News]
by Bhargab Sarmah (Catch News, 30 December 2015) “Pakistan has promising bunch of players. But people here prefer personalities before sport. Lack of merit,…
Nationwide News
Pakistan Soccer in Turmoil, Both Off the Field and On [NYT]
John Duerden writes for the New York Times about abysmal state of affairs in Pakistani football in whole of 2015
2015/16 PPL Season
2015: Politics, corruption beat Pakistan football yet again [Dawn]
It was a year that promised so much for Pakistan football, yet it ended with little to show for on the playing field.
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Jerome Champagne proposes greater checks on Goal Projects [Dawn]
Dawn's Umaid Wasim interviewed FIFA Presidential candidate about his promise to overhaul FIFA's Goal Projects with more assistance to developing countries but with greater…