Kochi to host international women’s football tournament
Kochi will host an international women’s football tournament in December. The tournament is intended to provide much-needed exposure and practice for the Indian senior women’s team which will take part in the AFC Asian Women’s Championship to be held early next year.
Abhishek Yadav (in pic), the Deputy General Secretary of All India Football Federation (AIFF) said it will be a four-nation tournament and that the AIFF was in the process of finalising the participating nations.
“The tournament will be held in Kochi in the first week of December. We are thankful to the Kerala Government for agreeing to host the tournament. It is part of AIFF’S and the Kerala Govt’s endeavour to promote women’s football. We are trying to get a couple of strong teams from either Europe or Asia and we will finalise it as soon as the ongoing qualifiers are over,” said Abhishek Yadav.
He added that Kerala will be the host of the next junior and sub-junior national football championships for boys and girls.