The All India Football Federation will organise a medicine regional course for the central and south regions in the capital beginning from January 14. The four-day seminar is a joint effort by the Indian body, Fifa and the Asian Football Confederation.
The AIFF has taken note of the increasing importance of sports medicine in modern day football without which it is virtually impossible for a player to maintain peak fitness through a full season.
The seminar will have doctors from Japan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and hosts India taking part.
Fifa chief medical officer, professor Jiri Frantisek Dvorak, will be one of the five lecturers to attend the occasion. Dvorak will be speaking on a range of topics from football for health to head injuries, concussion and on field management.
Dato Gurcharan Singh of Malaysia (chairman, medical department, AFC), Autsralia’s Professor Brun Shane Perry, Dr Patrick Yung of Hong Kong, and Dr Jaspal Singh Sandhu of India (all associated with AFC) are the others who will speak on the occasion.