{"id":75488,"date":"2019-08-13T00:30:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T19:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=75488"},"modified":"2019-08-13T00:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T19:00:56","slug":"khandu-becomes-acting-apfa-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/08\/13\/khandu-becomes-acting-apfa-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Khandu becomes acting APFA president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Aug 12:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh Football Association (APFA) in a special general body meeting on Monday declared Chief Minister Pema Khandu as the asso-ciation&#8217;s acting president.<br \/>\nAssuming the role of the APFA president, Khandu promised to work at all levels to spread the popularity of football in the state.<br \/>\n&#8220;Football being a poor man&#8217;s sport, people from any background can dream big, though lack of proper coaching facilities, infrastructure and a good football academy in the state are concerns that need to be addressed,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe chief minister said the immediate next step for the association would be to organise the 25th National Senior Women&#8217;s Football Championship, scheduled to be held in East Siang HQ Pasighat in the coming month, in a befitting manner.<br \/>\n&#8220;The best efforts will be made to make the event a grand success, since it&#8217;s a matter of pride for Arunachal to host a national level event,&#8221; Khandu said.<br \/>\nHe said Arunachal has got a great fillip in developing sports infrastructure through the prime minister&#8217;s &#8216;Khelo India&#8217; campaign.<br \/>\n&#8220;A majority of the upcoming stadiums in Arunachal are for football, and this should alleviate infrastructure issues to a great extent,&#8221; the CM said.<br \/>\nOutgoing APFA president Takam Sanjoy also spoke.<br \/>\nPresent at the meeting were representatives from district football associations and members of the APFA. (CMO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Aug 12: The Arunachal Pradesh Football Association (APFA) in a special general body meeting on Monday declared Chief Minister Pema Khandu as the asso-ciation&#8217;s acting president. Assuming the role of the APFA president, Khandu promised to work at all levels to spread the popularity of football in the state. &#8220;Football being a poor man&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}