Coaches, players hail Kabaddi League

Pakistan to hold event for first time in March next year

KARACHI: Pakistan will be holding its first Kabaddi League next year and the players along with the coaches hailed the move.

The league is expected to take place in March next year with six teams, featuring players from all over the country, set to compete for the crown and Pakistan team manager is looking forward to the start of the league.



“It is a very good step as the players will earn money from it,” Muhammad Ramzan Ghumman told The Express Tribune. “The league will have more than 50 players and that would give us a good pool too to pick players for the national side, while many players who don’t get selected for the national team but are very good can benefit from it.”

Ghumman also hoped that the league would help generate interest in the sport. “When people will see them [in the league], maybe more sportsmen will choose kabaddi as a sport.”





Meanwhile, national team captain Shafiq Ahmed Chishti, who has competed at the World Kabaddi League and was named the best raider in 2014, seconds Ghumman’s opinion and feels the league would create more competition which would benefit the national side.

“We needed this league mainly because the level of competition in the sport will increase,” said Chishti.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 24^th, 2016.

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