Sudeva Delhi FC’s move to appoint tainted Alex Ambrose as coach riles AIFF top brass

Sudeva Delhi FC needs to nominate Alex Ambrose, who was charged with sexual misconduct involving a minor woman, as its coach and has utilized for clearance from the All India Football Federation, a improvement that has left the highest brass of the nationwide governing physique miffed.

Ambrose was sacked as assistant coach of Indian ladies’s U-17 crew for alleged sexual misconduct throughout a coaching and publicity tour of Europe final yr.

A Delhi courtroom had in February issued a warrant of arrest in opposition to him after an FIR was registered at a police station in Dwarka underneath Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Ambrose has denied the allegations.

Sudeva Delhi FC proprietor Anuj Gupta confirmed that his membership had utilized to the AIFF for clearance of Ambrose. He additionally defended the transfer, saying an individual is harmless till confirmed responsible and he can’t be disadvantaged of incomes his livelihood by his occupation.

“He (Ambrose) has not been proven guilty. He is currently on bail and he cannot be barred from earning his livelihood. So, we have not done anything wrong (by appointing Ambrose as coach),” Gupta advised PTI on Monday.

“We cannot do anything if the AIFF decides not to clear him (as coach) because all the players and staff need to be registered under the Centralised Registration System (CRS),” stated Gupta who can also be the president of Football Delhi.

It is learnt that the AIFF prime brass considers Sudeva Delhi FC’s transfer as “unacceptable”.

“Not only the AIFF is going to shoot down the application of Sudeva Delhi FC to clear Ambrose as coach, but also the top brass considers the move as unacceptable,” a supply stated on the situation of anonymity.

“How can a club appoint a person against whom an FIR has been filed under POCSO Act as coach? He was sacked by the AIFF as coach of the U-17 women’s team on sexual misconduct charges and Sudeva wants the national federation to clear him as coach. How can this be even possible?”

Sudeva Delhi FC completed twelfth and final within the I-League final season and have been relegated to the second division.