KARACHI: Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) has requested FIFA as financial support to help players and officials amid coronavirus pandemic.
The chairman of PFF’s Normalization Committee (NC), Hamza Khan, disclosed the news today (Sunday) while talking to journalists in Karachi.
Hamza Khan said, “PFF is not financially stable at this moment. NC has got a very limited fund even for conducting the PFF’s election, which is our actual mandate.”
In this regard, he further said, “In such financial crisis how can we think of contributing to something else.”
“We own our players, coaches, and referees who are under financial crisis due to the ongoing coronavirus situation,” Hamza Khan added.
He further revealed that the federation has already requested FIFA and Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to extend some financial support.
The NC chairman also said, “If they give us a special fund of this cause, we would definitely make sure to help those in need.”
Hamza Khan emphasized on non-financial measures which they are working on to play their part in fighting with widely-spread coronavirus.
He said, “NC is working with FIFA’s partner the World Health Organization (WHO) to launch an awareness programme,” adding that the federation has also offered our Quetta Goal project to Pakistan’s government in these testing times.
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