Photo courtesy: Western India Football Association (WIFA)
The Western India Football Association (WIFA) have re-elected Praful Patel as President of the governing body of football in Maharashtra during the 66th WIFA Ordinary General Meeting at The Cooperage Stadium on Saturday. Souter Vaz retained his positions as WIFA Honorary Secretary as Patel and Vaz were elected unopposed.
MLA Sameer Meghe and Haresh K. Vora, both from Nagpur, were among the five elected as Vice-Presidents of WIFA besides sitting Vice-Presidents, Viswajeet Kadam (Pune), Maloje Raje Chhatrapati (Kolhapur) and Syed Liaquat Hussain (Aurangabad), all retained their posts as they were re-elected.
Pyarelal Choudhary (Pune) will continue as Treasurer, while Kiran Chougule (Solhapur), Salim Parkote (Latur) and Sushil Kumar Surve (Amravati) were elected Assistant Secretaries.
The newly elected WIFA Committee
President
Praful Patel (Bhandara)
Vice-Presidents
Viswajeet Kadam (Pune), Maloje Raje Chhatrapati (Kolhapur), Syed Liaquat Hussain (Aurangabad), Haresh K. Vora (Nagpur), Sameer Meghe (Nagpur)
Hon. Secretary
Souter Vaz (Mumbai)
Hon. Treasurer
Pyarelal Choudhary (Pune)
Assistant Secretary
Kiran Chougule (Solhapur), Salim Parkote (Latur), Sushil Kumar Surve (Amravati)
Committee Members
Sunil Dhande (Beed), Deepak Dixit (Chandrapur), Ahmed Lalani (Gondia), Azgar Husain Patel (Hingoli), Sardar Momin (Kolhapur), Khaja (Sajid) Raziuddin Ansari (Nanded), Vasant Gulzarilal Agarwal (Sangli), Ravindra Darekar (Gadchiroli), Godwin S. Dick (Ahmednagar), Anand Kalokar (Wardha), P.V. Ahale (Yavatmal), U. Banerjee (Mumbai), Abdul Rauf (Amravati)