Roma Khanna on Saturday stepped down because the event director of the FIFA U-17 Girls’s World Cup and AFC Girls’s Asian Cup, to be held in India in 2022, citing private causes. Khanna had spearheaded the bid for the U-17 World Cup again in 2019, and was later appointed because the event director for the native organising committee. She additionally efficiently led the bid for AFC Girls’s Asian Cup, which India is about to host subsequent yr in January.
“I wish to thank AIFF and FIFA for putting their belief in me,” Khanna mentioned in an announcement on Saturday.
“Main the event in India has been a privilege and honour. I’m happy with the work that has been finished by the Native Organising Committee and am additionally grateful to the crew who has shared the identical imaginative and prescient about selling girls’s soccer in India.
“2022 will probably be a giant yr for soccer and girls’s sport in India and I am unable to wait to cheer the Indian girls’s groups.”
AIFF basic secretary Kushal Das mentioned Roma contributed immensely to the expansion of Indian soccer.
“Roma has been related to AIFF for ten years now and has labored tirelessly in direction of the expansion of soccer within the nation.
“On behalf of AIFF and the entire soccer household, I wish to thank Roma for her management and her contribution in direction of Indian soccer which included quite a lot of issues ….”
Das mentioned Khanna’s contributions embody “establishing the membership licensing system within the I league, heading venue operations throughout six cities through the FIFA U-17 World Cup in 2017, efficiently bidding for 2 girls’s soccer tournaments and bringing them to India, and establishing the Nationwide Centre of Excellence.”
“…we’re saddened however wholeheartedly respect her private resolution and need her all the very best for the long run.”
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Earlier, India had been scheduled to host the 2020 version of the showpiece from November 2-21 however it was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic with FIFA asserting the nation as hosts for the following version in 2022.
The AIFF is working intently with FIFA to nominate the brand new event director.
