FIFA Legends Kanu, Cambiasso to attend Official Draw for FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017

FIFA and a Local Organising Committee (LOC) currently announced a appearance of FIFA Legends Esteban Cambiasso and Nwankwo Kanu along with Indian sporting icons Sunil Chhetri and PV Sindhu during a Official Draw for a FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017.

Kanu and Cambiasso are no strangers to a FIFA U-17 World Cup. Kanu hold a Winner’s Trophy aloft with Nigeria’s Super Eaglets in 1993, while Argentina’s Cambiasso participated in a 1995 edition.

Kanu won Olympic bullion in 1996, was twice selected as African Player of a Year, and played for a Super Eagles during a 1998, 2002 and 2010 editions of a FIFA World Cupâ„¢.

Cambiasso, meanwhile, won a FIFA U-20 World Cup 1997 and was partial of Argentina’s group during a 2010 FIFA World Cup™.

Nwankwo Kanu said: “The FIFA U-17 World Cup 1993 unequivocally spurred my career – within years of winning a title, we won a Olympic bullion and from there, as we would like to believe, there wasn’t any looking back. This contest provides youngsters a required theatre for growth and we trust this year’s book will yield us all with well-developed talent – most like a prior tournaments.”

The dual football icons will be assimilated by internal legends Sunil Chhetri and PV Sindhu, who will take partial as pull assistants. Chhetri is India’s inhabitant football group captain and all-time tip goalscorer. Twenty-one-year-old badminton actor PV Sindhu is one of India’s excellent athletes during a impulse and done waves after winning a Olympic china award during a 2016 Rio Olympics, apropos a youngest Indian to make a lectern finish in an particular eventuality during a Olympics.

The pull on 7 Jul will also be attended by officials from a participating teams and a Host Cities. The eventuality will be promote live on FIFA.com.

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