Football News: Mohun Bagan write to AFC on football road-map

Former I-League champions Mohun Bagan have written to the Asian Football Confederation requesting the game's continental governing body to pressurise the All India Football Federation to come up with a roadmap for Indian football. "We would like to draw your attention to meetings held on June 7, 2017 in Kuala Lumpur with representatives of all Indian football stakeholders and the subsequent meeting on September 14, 2017 with delegates of FIFA and AFC in our club. At these meetings it was discussed that the FIFA and the AFC will help develop a road map for Indian football," Mohun Bagan director Debashis Dutta said in the letter to AFC general secretary Dato Windsor John.GFX OUT Pointing out that the AIFF is yet to take any action on decisions taken at these meetings, Dutta said Mohun Bagan's communication with AIFF chief Praful Patel has also failed to yield any results. The Kolkata club's letter to the AFC comes in the backdrop of uncertainty over the future of the I-League. Although the AIFF has announced that the I-League is the principal league, restricted television coverage and step-motherly treatment by the federation has thrown the tournament's future into doubt.