KARACHI – Former Lyari-based international players and referees hailed Pakistan Football Federation’s President Faisal Saleh Hayat for taking steps in boosting football in rural and urban areas of Pakistan.
They called Lyari Football League 2011 another milestone in Faisal’s tenure.
People’s Peace Committee Chairman Sardar Uzair Jan Baloch called the event a milestone and said that such events would play a positive role in keeping peace not only in Lyari but throughout Karachi.
“Lyari is a place of poor people who have only a few things to cheer about. Football is one of them. Indeed, it tops the list,” said Hassan Baloch, who was Pakistan’s U14 coach in Iran’s Festival of Football last year.
