Telangana Football Association suspends former India captain Shabbir Ali

File photo: Former India captain and president of Abbas Union FC Shabbir Ali has been suspended for one year. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Photo Library

The Telangana Football Association (TFA) has suspended former India captain and Dhyan Chand Awardee Shabbir Ali, president of Abbas Union FC, for one year, citing repeated acts against the state body.

Approved by its Executive Committee, Technical Committee and General Body, the penalty followed his attendance at an unauthorised October 7 Olympic Bhavan meeting that TFA had told affiliates to avoid.

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TFA also alleges he bypassed its channels to approach officials and the AIFF, prompted a coaches’ committee chairman to write against it, and falsely claimed an AFC B licence, leading AIFF to bar him from coaching at the Santosh Trophy. 

SBI’s ES Shyam was also suspended for one year for attending the same meeting.