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AFC urges professional clubs
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-05-29 09:43 Top officials of Asian
Football Confederation urged their member countries to build professional
football clubs, whose importance has been largely overlooked compared with their
national teams.
AFC president Mohamed Hammam said football can't be developed without
professional clubs flourishing, but the average level of Asian football clubs is
not high.
Peter Velappan, general secretary of AFC, said most of the Asian football
clubs currently are "amateur" and that made most Asian countries difficult to
find football telants. "National teams can't make players; National association
can't make players," he said. "Only clubs make talents."
Speaking before launching a community-based city league in eastern China's
Qingdao city, Mohamed said China only had 12 professional clubs currently, but
by running the AFC-designed cityleague, he hoped the number will rise to 10,000
to 20,000 in the near future.
According to Velappan, in the past seven months, AFC had trained club
managers, media personnel, coaches, referees, and medical teams for the league
clubs to ensure a professional operation.
They also required these clubs to play at least 40 matches for a season, and
they should have fixed match schedule, fixed home stadium, as well as their own
identities, including titles, flags,mascots, and even
nicknames.
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