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After several postponements,the 13th edition of the South Asian Federation Football Championship will kick off in Male,Maldives on 1st October,2021. The tournament was moved to Maldives,following Bangladesh's refusal to host the biennial tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic and lack of sponsors. This is the second time Maldives is hosting the championship.In 2008 Maldives and Sri Lanka had  jointly hosted the tournament. Unlike previous editions,the championship will be conducted in a round-robin format with the top two finishers contesting the final Understandably,the tournament has been hit hard and reduced to five teams- Nepal, India,Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Maldives. Bhutan was  denied permission to participate in the championship by its government because of COVID.While Pakistan was forced to sit out the competition.Keep in mind,FIFA has suspended the Pakistan Football Federation because of third -party interference for an indefinite period. India has had a stranglehold ...

Mr. Kiran Chemjong, or Kiran Kumar Limbu,is  one of the few players who has carved out a niche for himself in the national football team of Nepal. The 31 -year- old originally from Rajarani,Dhankuta, has worked his way to being the number one goalkeeper in the country. His  outstanding goalkeeping ability,techniques and approach has earned  him glowing praise and recognition from all quarters.   His career is studded with  several milestones.With 74 matches in his kitty to date,he is now the most capped player on the national team.  The added responsibility of captaincy is a feather in his cap.Also he is the first Nepali footballer to  be nominated and win the AFC Player of the Week beating out  nine nominees. Football experts and sports journalists across South Asia have recognized Chemjong as one of the finest goalkeepers in the region. The All Nepal Football Association(ANFA) Academy product has transformed himself into an elite shot-stopper ov...

Mr. Paras Khadka, former skipper of the National Cricket Team will go down as Nepal's greatest, most celebrated, acclaimed, recognized , popular and successful cricketer. Khadka,a true legend of the game, hung up his bat recently.The news of his retirement came as a complete surprise to the sporting fraternity. Undoubtedly,the skipper in his early thirties had a few years of international cricket left in him.In other words,he could have easily prolonged his career. However,he stuck to his decision and called it a day much to the disappointment of his legion of fans and admirers across the globe. His contribution to Nepal cricket stands invaluable and goes well beyond numbers when it comes to making headway in international cricket.  There is no arguing the fact that his outstanding leadership skills and contribution to the team as a player made a big difference.He played a vital role in shaping and building the future of Nepal cricket. He was and will continue to be the standard be...

Born and brought up in England, nineteen year old Asmita Ale has carved a niche for herself in English women’s football. She is the first ever Nepali origin  fully fledged professional footballer playing top flight football in the United Kingdom. Without a shadow of a doubt,Asmita  possesses qualities of a star in the making. A peek at her progress chart provides lots of evidence of her talent as a footballer. In  her young career to date she has already made more than 20 appearances  for England’s  national youth teams.  She represented Under-17 thirteen times in 2017-18,Under-18  five times in 2018 and Under-19 four times in 2019. She was in the Under-19 squad for the 2019 UEFA Women’s Under-19 Championship held in Scotland as well. The highly skilled footballer made headlines after she inked a  two -year contract with Tottenham Hotspur Club women’s team  for the 2021-2022 Women’s Super League Season recently. Asmita’s potential and...

Poor  leadership,failed governance,petty politics,corruption, mismanagement, nepotism, fiefdom,factionalism,lack of transparency and accountability,remain hallmarks of  All Nepal Football Association (ANFA),the  apex football body, Despite changing of the guard a few years ago, the face of ANFA remains unchanged to this day,unfortunately. As a result,Nepal  football is in a sorry state of affairs and lagging far behind in development and international football. The so called executives who run the football body are largely responsible for the plights of football in the country. Besides,there always has been a clear lack of responsibility,professionalism and honesty on their part.They are  shamelessly engaged in politics of petty personal self-interests and ruining football. To further compound matters,the government  has remained a mute spectator all along.They just don't give a damn. The end of over two decades of Ganesh  Thapa’s presidency and ANFA’s...