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Sri Lanka Football will be hosting the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) U17 Championship for the first time.

The tournament will take place from 5th–14th September in Colombo. This is the first time Sri Lanka is hosting a SAFF tournament since the 2012 SAFF Women’s Championship. This is another step in the development of Sri Lanka Football where Youth Football will start getting prominence among the clubs and schools.

The matches will be played at the Racecourse International Stadium. Apart from Sri Lanka – India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Maldives will take part in this year’s tournament. In the last edition (2019) hosts India defeated Nepal to become champions while Sri Lanka finished 4th.

We are so delighted to host this tournament in Sri Lanka after a very long time. This will be a key aspect in creating a future national team. This tournament will bring some additional foreign income to the country during this difficult period the country is facing. We are happy to contribute some forex revenue to the country through football,” said Jaswar Umar, President of FFSL.

The Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) has stated that with the high interest created by the U20 selection trail, they expect to see a bigger number of participants for the trails from different parts of the country. Selection trails are expected to be held in different parts of the country.

Even though Sri Lanka Football is to hosting this tournament next month, They have not prepared the team for this tournament and FFSL just announced the U17 trials for the National Team from 5th August.

ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාපන්දු සම්මේලනය SAFF U17 ශූරතාවලියට සත්කාරකත්වය සපයයි

ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාපන්දු ප්‍රථම වරට දකුණු ආසියානු පාපන්දු සම්මේලනයේ (SAFF) U17 ශූරතාවලියට සත්කාරකත්වය සපයයි.

තරගාවලිය සැප්තැම්බර් 5 සිට 14 දක්වා කොළඹදී පැවැත්වේ. 2012 SAFF කාන්තා ශූරතාවලියෙන් පසු ශ්‍රී ලංකාව SAFF තරඟාවලියකට සත්කාරකත්වය දක්වන පළමු අවස්ථාව මෙයයි. මෙය ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාපන්දු සංවර්ධනයේ තවත් එක් පියවරක් වන අතර එහිදී යොවුන් පාපන්දු ක්‍රීඩා සමාජ සහ පාසල් අතර ප්‍රමුඛත්වය ගැනීමට පටන් ගනී.

“ඉතා දීර්ඝ කාලයකට පසු මෙම තරගාවලිය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පැවැත්වීමට ලැබීම ගැන අපි සතුටු වෙනවා. අනාගත ජාතික කණ්ඩායමක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමේදී මෙය ප්‍රධාන අංගයක් වනු ඇත. රට මුහුණ දී සිටින මෙම දුෂ්කර කාල පරිච්ඡේදය තුළ මෙම තරගාවලිය මගින් රටට අමතර විදේශ ආදායමක් ලැබෙනු ඇත. පාපන්දු ක්‍රීඩාව හරහා රටට යම් විදේශ විනිමය ආදායමක් ලබා දීමට හැකි වීම ගැන අපි සතුටු වෙනවා,” FFSL හි සභාපති Jaswar Umar පැවසීය.

ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාපන්දු සම්මේලනය (FFSL) ප්‍රකාශ කර ඇත්තේ U20 ක්රීඩක තේරීම් විසින් ඇති කරන ලද ඉහළ උනන්දුව සමඟ දිවයිනේ විවිධ ප්‍රදේශවලින් විශාල සහභාගිවන්නන් දැකීමට අපේක්ෂා කරන බවයි. ක්රීඩක තේරීම් දිවයිනේ විවිධ ප්‍රදේශවල පැවැත්වීමට බලාපොරොත්තු වේ.

කෙසේවෙතත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාපන්දු සම්මේලනය ලබන මාසයේදී මෙම තරගාවලිය පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතව තිබුණද, මේ සඳහා නිල සංචිතයක් සූදානම් කර නොමැති අතර FFSL විසින් ප්‍රකාශ කර ඇත්තේ U17 ජාතික කණ්ඩායම සඳහා ක්‍රීඩක තේරීම් කටයුතු අගෝස්තු 5 වැනිදා සිට ආරම්භ වන බවයි . මෙය තරගාවලියට අවාසියක් වනු ඇත

SAFF U17 சாம்பியன்ஷிப்பை நடத்தும் இலங்கை கால்பந்து

இலங்கை கால்பந்து, தெற்காசிய கால்பந்து சம்மேளனத்தின் (SAFF) U17 சாம்பியன்ஷிப்பை முதல் முறையாக நடத்தவுள்ளது.

போட்டியானது கொழும்பில் செப்டம்பர் 5 முதல் 14 வரை நடைபெறவுள்ளது. 2012 SAFF பெண்கள் சாம்பியன்ஷிப்பிற்குப் பிறகு இலங்கை SAFF போட்டியை நடத்துவது இதுவே முதல் முறை. இது இலங்கை கால்பந்தின் வளர்ச்சியின் மற்றொரு படியாகும், அங்கு இளைஞர் கால்பந்து கிளப்புகள் மற்றும் பள்ளிகள் மத்தியில் முக்கியத்துவம் பெறத் தொடங்கும்.

போட்டிகள் ரேஸ்கோர்ஸ் சர்வதேச மைதானத்தில் நடைபெறும். இலங்கையைத் தவிர – இந்தியா, நேபாளம், பங்களாதேஷ், பூட்டான் மற்றும் மாலத்தீவுகள் இந்த ஆண்டு போட்டியில் பங்கேற்கின்றன. கடந்த பதிப்பில் (2019) இந்தியா நேபாளத்தை தோற்கடித்து சாம்பியன் ஆனது, இலங்கை 4வது இடத்தைப் பிடித்தது.

“மிக நீண்ட நாட்களுக்குப் பிறகு இந்த போட்டியை இலங்கையில் நடத்துவதில் நாங்கள் மிகவும் மகிழ்ச்சியடைகிறோம். எதிர்கால தேசிய அணியை உருவாக்குவதில் இது ஒரு முக்கிய அம்சமாக இருக்கும். நாடு எதிர்கொள்ளும் இக்கட்டான காலகட்டத்தில் இந்தப் போட்டியானது நாட்டிற்கு சில கூடுதல் வெளிநாட்டு வருமானத்தைக் கொண்டுவரும். கால்பந்து மூலம் நாட்டிற்கு சில அந்நிய செலாவணி வருவாயை பங்களிப்பதில் நாங்கள் மகிழ்ச்சியடைகிறோம், ”என்று FFSL இன் தலைவர் ஜஸ்வர் உமர் கூறினார்.

ஸ்ரீ லங்கா கால்பந்து கூட்டமைப்பு (FFSL) பிரகடனமாக உள்ளது U20 தேர்வுகள் மாண்பேட மூலம் வெளியிடப்பட்ட உயர் ஆர்வத்தில், நாட்டின் பல்வேறு துறைகளில் பட்டத்திற்காக அதிக அளவில் கலந்து கொள்ள விரும்புவதாக உள்ளது. தேர்வு மான்பெத் நாட்டில் பல்வேறு வாய்ப்புகள் உள்ளன.

இலங்கை கால்பந்து அடுத்த மாதம் இந்தப் போட்டியை நடத்த உள்ள போதிலும், அவர்கள் இந்தப் போட்டிக்கான அணியைத் தயார் செய்யவில்லை மற்றும் FFSL ஆகஸ்ட் 5 முதல் தேசிய அணிக்கான U17 சோதனைகளை அறிவித்தது. சொந்த மண்ணில் நடக்கும் போட்டிக்கு இது பின்னடைவாக இருக்கும்

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