Pakistan’s national football team is to tour the Maldives in February ahead of attempts to qualify for the 2014 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Challenge Cup, according to media reports.
The Express Tribune news service has reported that the Pakistan squad will play matches both in Nepal and the Maldives as part of back-to-back tours later next month. Pakistan will start its campaign to qualify for the 2014 Challenge Cup begin in Kyrgyzstan in March.
Dates for the Maldives tour are yet to be announced by the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF).
In addressing the proposed tours, PFF secretary Ahmed Yar Khan Lodhi claimed that both the Maldives and Nepal would present competitive training for the upcoming AFC tournament qualifiers.
“We are expecting a good result in these international tours as the team has polished their scoring abilities,” he told the Express Tribune.
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