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11 countries confirmed for new ACL
KUALA LUMPUR: Signaling a new dawn for professionalism in Asian football, the AFC Pro-League Ad-Hoc Committee met today under the chairmanship of Captain Saburo Kawabuchi and recommended to the AFC Executive Committee the first list of eleven (11) countries who will be eligible to field their teams in the new AFC Champions League next year.
Japan, Korea Republic, Australia, China, Indonesia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Iran and India have been confirmed as participants, after a thorough assessment of their eligibility, in the 2009 AFC Champions League to be relaunched on completely professional lines.
Captain Kawabuchi opened the meeting by saying: 揟he recommendations of this committee are based on inspections and long, fruitful discussions and our goal is to create an attractive competition which will take Asian football to new heights. |
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