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‘Working To Choose Earliest Possible Timeline’ For FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup: Praful Patel

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All India Football Federation (AIFF) president Praful Patel stated that the AIFF is working in “close collaboration” with FIFA to choose the “earliest possible timeline” for hosting the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup. The AIFF President’s tweeted from his official Twitter account: “I am happy to share that we are working with #FIFA to choose a new and earliest possible timeline to host the U-17 Women’s World Cup. The LOC and FIFA are working in close collaboration to finalise new dates keeping health and safety a priority.”

The FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2020 was scheduled to take place between November 2-21, 2020 across five cities in India — Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata, Guwahati, Ahmedabad and Navi Mumbai. However, earlier this month, the tournament was postponed following a decision by the FIFA-Confederations working group in light of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe. India had earlier in 2017 successfully hosted the FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 which stays the highest-ever attended FIFA youth tournament. Courtesy : AIFF Media Team
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