Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Asadullah Faiz presided over an important meeting with presidents and secretaries of all sports associations of the province at National Hockey Stadium on Friday.
Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi, Irfanullah Khan (table tennis), Maudood Jafery, Salman Butt (athletics), M Naeem (bodybuilding), Rashid Malik (tennis) and presidents and secretaries of other sports associations of the province also attended the meeting. The presidents and secretaries of all sports associations of the province were also introduced with both Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Asadullah Faiz and Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi on this occasion.
The top sports office-bearers of the province congratulated Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Asadullah Faiz and Director General Sports Punjab Tariq Qureshi on assuming the charge of their respective offices.
Addressing the meeting, Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Asadullah Faiz urged the sports associations of the province to groom nursery of U-13 and U-10 talented players in all games. “It is the only way to prepare a pool of talented male and female players and earn a respectable place in international sports in future”.
Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Asadullah Faiz said that 15 sports associations should conduct U-13 and U-10 training camps in the first phase while the remaining 15 sports associations should hold their camps in the second phase. “Grooming players at a younger age is a routine practice at international level and that is the reason the foreign teams always excelled in international sports events”.
In his address, Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi said the actual mandate of Sports Board Punjab is to train and nurture male and female players at young age and it is essential for all sports associations and departments as well for the true revival of sports in the country. “Sports Board Punjab will provide every possible assistance for the organization of these training camps”.