AFC President chairs Executive Committee meeting

TDT | Manama                                          

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com   

President of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, chaired the first meeting of the newly elected AFC Executive Committee.

Members of the Committee approved the appointment of Zaw Zaw from Myanmar as the Senior Vice President of the AFC Executive Committee.

The AFC Executive Committee unanimously approved the establishment of a dedicated AFC Professional Football Task Force to oversee the transformation of Continental club football, set in motion by the AFC Competitions Committee last year, AFC said on its website.

“The new AFC Executive Committee has today underlined its intention to further accelerate our positive football journey through these two important decisions,” said Shaikh Salman.

“We want to ensure that the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023 is organised to the highest possible standards and remembered as the best ever, and the activation of the Organising Committee for AFC Asian Cup is testimony to our sincere efforts and belief.

“We have already signalled our ambitions to elevate Asian club football to new heights and the setting-up of the AFC Professional Football Task Force is a timely step in the right direction following the approval of strategic reforms to the AFC’s club competitions late last year.”

Several game-changing initiatives - including the introduction of new competition formats, lifting the foreign player quota and increasing the financial distribution model - aimed at ushering a new era of progress were approved by the AFC Competitions Committee and consequently endorsed by the AFC Executive Committee in December 2022.