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KRL drawn with Taiwan Power, Al Amma’ri

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KARACHI: Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) have been drawn in Group B with the defending champions Taiwan Power Company of Chinese Taipei and debutants Shabab Al Amma’ri Club of Palestine.

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced on Tuesday the draws for the final round of the AFC President’s Cup which will be hosted by Tajikistan in Dushanbe from September 24 to 30.

KRL coach Tariq Lutfi has termed his team’s group a good one. “I think we are not in a tough group as we played a goalless draw against the defending champions Taiwan Power Company in Lahore in the qualifying round recently,” Tariq told ‘The News’ here on Tuesday.

“As both our rivals will be playing the first match we will get an opportunity to judge them and plan accordingly,” said Lutfi, also a former coach of Pakistan football team.

“Although in our first round match against Taiwan Power Company in Lahore we played with a packed defence, our overall approach was balanced and that was why we eventually held them,” he said.

“As there are no semifinals and one team from each group will qualify for the final so every match will be a do or die battle and there will be no chance of getting relaxed,” he said.

KRL are currently training in Rawalpindi under floodlights. They failed to reach the semifinals of the continental third-tier club competitions in Myanmar in 2010 in their first appearance, but are now a completely different side, capable of pulling off a surprise.

As many as 11 of KRL players have also been invited by the national team coach Zavisa Milosavljevic for the camp of the senior team for preparation of the AFC Challenge Cup Qualifiers.

Lutfi sees a good chance for his team on the vital tour. “We have a good side and we will go to Tajikistan with full preparation and I am confident that the team will play according to its potential,” said Lutfi.

Lutfi has also been appointed head coach of the women football team that will take part in the SAFF Women Championship starting in Colombo in the first week of September.

He will have to choose one from the two options and there is a strong indication that he will prefer KRL whom he joined last year after retiring from Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).

The Group B opener will be played between Taiwan Power Company and Al Amma’ri on September 24.

The last year’s runners-up Phnom Penh Crown of Cambodia have been placed in Group A with Tajikistan’s Istiklol and the six-time finalists Dordoi Dynamo of Kyrgyzstan.

Dordoi had been the winners in 2006 and 2007 and runners-up in 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

The News

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Tajikistan Istiqlol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cambodia Phnom Penh Crown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kyrgyzstan Dordoi Bishkek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Palestinian territories Markaz Shabab Al-Am’ari 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pakistan KRL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese Taipei Taiwan Power Company 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

 

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  • Mubashar Rehman

    Tariq lutfi is the best coach of Pakistan. He lead Pakistan Women NT to a glorious debut in SAFF 2011 and his coaching of Pak U-22 against Malaysia was also well. Go KRL bring us pride and show to those teams Paki are not underdogs to others

    • shah

      have u been following the same pakistan team as everybody else? we played so poor against malaysia and lost a winnable tie..we failed horribly in the world cup qualifers…hes done well with women team but lets see how he does this time. KRL well they have been consistent for few years now so no surprises…if he can win president cup then great.

      • Mubashar Rehman

        World Cup qualifier was horrible, but second leg against Malaysia was not. We fought in the match we had more chances. defeat was due to poor finishing form. I dont think NT Coach is responsible for poor finishing abilities of players, it lies on clubs and players. How many field goals Zavisa’s Men scored in SAFF??

      • Mubashar Rehman

        And why we finished 4th in group in Saudi Arabia despite long training camps and foreign training tours too?? I still dont courage to say tha Tariq Lutfi is better than Zavisa but he is best of Pakistan. Lutfi Sb has passed first round, lets pray for second round.

  • Zziqbal

    KRL the team that could not score a single goal in there home in the two games recently..What is there to praise about Mr. Lutfi…Pakistan was pathetic under him same goes for KRL in international competition.

  • Ali afridi

    Even if krl takes it down I won’t give credit to lutfi as u all knows 11 of krl players have been coached and trained by zavisa and have Max exposure lately , so mr. Lutfi u shouldn’t get excited it was zavisa who brought them up here beside as we know the players are still working on same equation which was given to them by zavisa I know it takes time and am sure this much time would b more then Enuf to produce result.. Not fan of krl but good luck