EB, Bagan likely to attend June 7 AFC meeting

In what would be a sharp U-turn from their previous stance, city football giants East Bengal and Mohun Bagan are likely to attend the June 7 meeting at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) headquarters in Kuala Lumpur involving all stakeholders to discuss the future roadmap of Indian football.

Both the clubs had joined hands in their tirade against Football Sports Development Limited (FSDL), organisers of the Indian Super League (ISL), and threatened to disrupt the cash-rich league if their demands of franchise fee waiver and money from the central pool were not met. The traditional football heavyweights of the country had also threatened to boycott the June 7 meeting, if All India Football Federation (AIFF) president Praful Patel turned down their proposal.

But on Wednesday, after getting no reply from Patel regarding another round of deliberations, both the outfits looked to budge from their hard stance. Agencies