{"id":7926,"date":"2013-11-14T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/india-officially-submits-bid-to-hos\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T22:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:58:44","slug":"india-officially-submits-bid-to-hos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/india-officially-submits-bid-to-hos\/","title":{"rendered":"India officially submits bid to host FIFA U-17 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AIFF Media Team <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The All India Football Federation (AIFF) can confirm that India has submitted its bid to host the prestigious 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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FIFA Deputy Director and Head of Event Management Competitions Division Mr. Inaki
Alvarez, Airtel I-League CEO Sunando Dhar and FIFA Director of Competitions Division
 Mustapha Fahmy pose with the bid<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\n\u201cWe are happy that we could submit all the necessary bid documents before the deadline,\u201d AIFF General Secretary Mr. Kushal Das told www.the-aiff.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am grateful to our President Mr. (Praful) Patel for the initiative taken in following up with the Government in terms of the guarantees required, and ensuring the all the guarantees were ready and could be submitted in time,\u201d added Mr. Das.<\/p>\n

Airtel I-League CEO Mr.Sunando Dhar submitted the bid documents to FIFA\u2019s Director of Competitions Division Mr. Mustapha Fahmy at the FIFA Headquarters in Zurich on Tuesday (November 12, 2013).<\/p>\n

\u201cI was at Zurich to submit our bid documents for hosting the FIFA U-17 World Cup in 2017. The bid will be taken up in the FIFA Executive Committee meeting on December 3,\u201d Mr. Dhar confirmed.<\/p>\n

\u201cFIFA was very happy to receive the guarantees from the Government and the official bid from AIFF. We are eagerly waiting for the final verdict now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Other nations competing for the bid include Uzbekistan, Ireland and the 2010 World Cup host South Africa.<\/p>\n

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AIFF Media Team  The All India Football Federation (AIFF) can confirm that India has submitted its bid to host the prestigious 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup. FIFA Deputy Director and Head of Event Management Competitions Division Mr. Inaki Alvarez, Airtel I-League CEO Sunando Dhar and FIFA Director of Competitions Division Mustapha Fahmy pose with the bid \u201cWe are happy that we could submit all the necessary bid documents before the deadline,\u201d AIFF General Secretary Mr. Kushal Das told www.the-aiff.com. \u201cI am grateful to our President Mr. (Praful) Patel for the initiative taken in following up with the Government in terms of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[571,169,166,1879],"class_list":["post-7926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","tag-aiff","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-update","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71933,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions\/71933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}