When football aficionado Akhilesh Yadav met Croatian Ambassador to India Amir Moharami the discussion hovered around football and when ambassador offered football coaches from his country to train UP players, Chief Minister lapped up the idea. “The Croatian ambassador has agreed in principle to provide international football coaches to train players from Uttar Pradesh. Chief Minister has asked officials of Sports department to expedite the process,” Government spokesman said.
The Croatian Ambassador met Chief Minister at his official residence of 5, Kalidas Marg. Speaker of State Assembly Mata Prasad Pandey and Political pension minister Rajendra Chaudhry were also present there. Government spokesman said that Chief Minister spoke to the Sports officials and asked them to get in touch with Croatian ambassador. They have been asked to submit a proposal in this regard to the embassy at the earliest.
“Croatia excels in football and if coaches from this country can train footballers from Uttar Pradesh it would improve standard of game in the state,” the spokesman said. The Ambassador has also offered technical help in setting up tram lines in different cities of the state to ease traffic congestion. Croatia has vast experience in rapid transport with trams playing an important role in commutation. He has also invited Chief Minister and Speaker Vidhan Sabha to visit Croatia in near future.