ANFA President Karma Tsering Sherpa and Vice Sports Minister of China DU Zhaocai (right) exchange the MoU at a programme in Kathmandu on Thursday. Photo: THT
Kathmandu, February 28
The All Nepal Football Association and Chinese Football Association reached an agreement for the development of football.
ANFA President Karma Tsering Sherpa and Vice Sports Minister of China DU Zhaocai exchanged the memorandum of understanding at a programme today.
As per the four-year agreement, the two sides will help each other in team exchange, infrastructure and technical aspects.
“Today we have reached an agreement in principal in three points for the development of football,” said ANFA President Sherpa. “We will sit together and finalise the details in due course and our first priority is infrastructure development in Nepal,” he said. ‘They are also positive in hosting national teams apart from sending their third division and state teams in invitational tournaments.”
Vice-Sports Minister of China Zhaocai, who is also the acting president of Chinese FA, said the agreement will begin with team exchange.
“We have planned to exchange teams to begin the cooperation and will come up with detailed projects later,” said Zhaocai. “We believe the agreement will strengthen the bilateral relations apart from helping in the development of football.
We also have a good football set up in Tibet and that can also be utilised.”
ANFA General Secretary Indraman Tuladhar thanked the Chinese FA for the cooperation.
“We tried a lot to get Chinese help in football and we hope the agreement will play key role in the development of Nepali football,” said Tuladhar.
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