{"id":3108,"date":"2012-03-10T06:40:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2012-03-10T06:40:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T06:40:10","slug":"india-places-bid-for-2015-world-club-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=3108","title":{"rendered":"India places bid for 2015 World Club Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3107\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/fifa.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"India places bid for 2015 World Club Championship\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 6px;\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/fifa.jpg 200w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/fifa-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>New Delhi<\/strong>: <a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=AIFF&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=AIFF&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\">All India football Federation<\/a> (AIFF), which has earlier made its intentions clear in January to take football in the country to the next level when it bid to host 2017 U-17 World Cup, has on Friday announced that it would place its bid and try to bring 2015 World Club Championship to India as well.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came as a surprise and it was made by the President of the AIFF in a press conference in front of the President of the <a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=FIFA&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=FIFA&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\">FIFA<\/a>, Sepp Blatter. Talking to the media, Patel said \u201cAIFF on behalf of the country has placed a serious bid to host the u-17 World cup it our ambition to host the prestigious event. I am hopeful of the bid going through which will help India to earn a wild card entry into the tournament on the basis of host nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talking on AIFF\u2019s ambitious bid to bring the World Club Championship in 2015, he said, \u201cIf the World Club Championship bid goes through then it will see the top Indian to participate in the tournament, then the top club of India would get to be a part of it which be a source of motivation to the clubs in India,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Blatter who has been serving as the president of the FIFA for the last 13 years said that India would always his has his support and would the game to develop in the country. But then he remained non-committal about the hosting rights as he said that the decision cannot be taken him alone and would be decided during the FIFA executive committee meeting in Zurich later this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not me who decides everything in FIFA. We follow a democratic system in FIFA and decision would be taken by the executive committee. But for me I personally feel that India should be an ideal host for the event. It would help in developing grass root level football in India and there is a good possibility of India hosting the tournament,\u201d said Blatter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Samikshan Dutta Choudhary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian Sports News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: All India football Federation (AIFF), which has earlier made its intentions clear in January to take football in the country to the next level when it bid to host 2017 U-17 World Cup, has on Friday announced that it would place its bid and try to bring 2015 World Club Championship to India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[973,963],"class_list":["post-3108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","tag-all-india-football-federation","tag-fifa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>India places bid for 2015 World Club Championship - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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