{"id":9029,"date":"2013-05-06T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/prince-al-husein-launches-afdp-magic\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T16:53:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:53:25","slug":"prince-al-husein-launches-afdp-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/prince-al-husein-launches-afdp-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Al Husein launches AFDP-Magic Bus partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FIFA Vice-President HRH Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein launched Asian Football Development Project\u2019s (AFDP) partnership with Magic Bus India Foundation at the Vinay Marg Sports Complex in New Delhi on Monday (April 7, 2013). All India Football Federation General Secretary Mr. Kushal Das, former India Captain Mr. Bhaichung Bhutia and Mr. Mathew Spacie, CEO, Magic Bus Foundation India, were also present on the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Prince Al Hussein makes a point as Mr. Kushal Das and Mr. Bhaichung Bhutia look on
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\nThe AFDP, an independent organisation, headed by HRH Prince Al Bin Al Hussein, aims to provide effective, needs-based assistance to all Asian Football Associations in a fair and transparent manner.<\/div>\n
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Speaking on the occasion, Prince Al Hussein said: \u201cThis is the beginning for all of us as we intend to take the sport to the next level. I\u2019m confident we\u2019ll find enough elite players through the initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing football talent from some marginalised areas of the World is a truly worthy venture and we are proud to be associated with this initiative. The girls who are part of this will create a change in their own lives and become role models for other girls in the neighbourhood.\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll India Football Federation is glad to be associated with Magic Bus Foundation India for such a venture. Grassroots stays on the top of AIFF\u2019s priority list and we want to broadbase it,\u201d AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das said. \u201cUsing football to pursue social and development goals like gender equality is something we fully support. This is a wonderful new initiative leveraging the world\u2019s most popular sport and I am excited about such creative possibilities,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe the beautiful game can play an important role in creating a significant impact on the society,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Bhaichung Bhutia stressed on the importance of the fairer sex playing the sport. \u201cObviously we want kids to play but we need girls to play football as well,\u201d he maintained. \u201cAs a member of the AIFF\u2019s Technical Committee, Grassroots stay very close to my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spacie, CEO, Magic Bus Foundation India reflected on football \u201ccutting all barriers in the society.\u201d \u201cWe need more and more kids to play the sport. Magic Bus works to move children out of poverty using sport as a development tool and football is a very important tool in our community development initiative,\u201d he opined.<\/p>\n

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FIFA Vice-President HRH Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein launched Asian Football Development Project\u2019s (AFDP) partnership with Magic Bus India Foundation at the Vinay Marg Sports Complex in New Delhi on Monday (April 7, 2013). All India Football Federation General Secretary Mr. Kushal Das, former India Captain Mr. Bhaichung Bhutia and Mr. Mathew Spacie, CEO, Magic Bus Foundation India, were also present on the occasion. Prince Al Hussein makes a point as Mr. Kushal Das and Mr. Bhaichung Bhutia look on during the launch of AFDP’s partnership with Magic Bus The AFDP, an independent organisation, headed by HRH Prince Al Bin <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[571,169,166],"class_list":["post-9029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","tag-aiff","tag-football","tag-sports","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029","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=9029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38629,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions\/38629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}