Kalyan Chaubey and Udhayanidhi Stalin throughout the assembly.
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All India Soccer Federation (AIFF) president Kalyan Chaubey met Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Tuesday to debate the roadmap for ladies’s soccer improvement within the State.
“I’ve spoken with the Dy. CM, who can be the Sports activities Minister, and we mentioned on to take over three districts — Erode and Dindigul are two of them. These districts have over 100 girls gamers aged between 13 and 16. In Chennai alone, there are 20 (girls) gamers above 19 years of age,” Chaubey instructed The Hindu.
Tamil Nadu gained the Senior Girls’s Nationwide Championship in 2023 and bagged silver on the Khelo India Youth Video games this month.
“The AIFF needs to supply technical help to Tamil Nadu girls footballers, and likewise establish almost 20 former footballers who’ve performed for a big variety of years and provides them teaching schooling, ideally by an elected member affiliation, and in collaboration with the sports activities division of the Authorities of Tamil Nadu,” Chaubey stated.
Chaubey was right here with AIFF vice-president N.A. Haris. He hoped the elections of the Tamil Nadu Soccer Affiliation (TNFA) — scheduled on Saturday – would end shortly.
The TNFA has not had an election since 2018, with its final Annual Common Assembly in Salem in 2014, jeopardising males’s and ladies’s leagues right here.
“The AIFF, in collaboration with the Sports activities Authority of India, performed 87 leagues in 2023-24 and 63 leagues in 2024-25 beneath the identify ‘Asmita’ throughout three age teams, U-15, U-17, U-30,” Chaubey stated.
“Nevertheless, none of those leagues happened in Tamil Nadu,” he added.
Printed – Might 27, 2025 10:17 pm IST