As there is few months remaining to kick off the SAFF
Championship 2013, newly appointed chairman of Sri Lanka Football Association
and his team appointed emerging Brazilian Claudio Roberto as the new coach of
the national team, and set him the initial target of guiding Sri
Lanka to SAFF Championship glory in September that is going to be held in
kathmandu. The Sri Lankans finished runners-up and winners in the tournament’s
first two editions, in 1993 and 1995 respectively, but have since struggled to
hang with south Asia’s elite.
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| Claudio Roberto |
Rodrigo also wants to see the senior national team compete
with the continent’s best, and establish beach soccer
and futsal in Sri Lanka.“We are a beautiful island,” he said.
“We can start beach football. Now we are starting some centres for beach
football and futsal.
“With the national team we have a talent hunting programme
in the north-eastern area and the southern region. We are improving, starting
with the U-17, U-19, U-21 and U-23 teams. We have to work on these feeder
teams.“We also want to improve the national team. At my council we didn’t
discuss a short-term plan but a long-term one, and in ten years I’d like to
see Sri Lanka participating in the AFC Asian Cup. I hope this can
come true.”
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