Praful Patel Biography

With the results of 2018 World Cup coming out, it is a matter of discussion whether Indian team is going for an action this year. The upcoming match dates have been fixed which will start from India and Oman facing the biggest clash on the 11th of June and India hosting Turkmenistan on 29th March, 2015, as India will play eight matches as part of Round Two of the 2018 World Cup Pre-Qualifiers.

Indian Team has been clubbed into Group D of the Round Two of the Pre-Qualifiers for the World Cup 2018 along with Asian tycoons like Iran as well as Oman, Turkmenistan and Guam. There will be 40 teams who will be fighting for the top place in Asia, have been divided into eight groups of five teams each. The eight group winners and four best runners up will have a conjoined incentive due to which the 12 teams will not qualify for the final qualification round of the 2018 World Cup. They will be automatically inducted as the qualifying teams, partaking in the AFC Asian Cup, hosted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in 2019.

Praful Patel profile as the President of All India Football Federation (AIFF) has propelled the standards of Indian Football to a positive channels and a rightful direction. Rising from the stagnant phase, Indian Football today is getting much exposure from the sponsors and the audience, after the much hyped Indian Super League (ISL). The next 16 highest ranked teams will advance to the third round of the Asian Cup qualification which comprises of 24 teams, with all of them completing for the 12 remaining slots in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. For the remaining 8 places in the third round of qualification, the 12 bottom placed teams will be involved in a play-off.

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