Recruiting foreign legs is “under the ground” for local Nepalese Clubs but recruiting such is now the compulsory agenda of those clubs in the Martyrs’ Memorial “A” Division League Football Tournament here in Kathmandu.

With more than three months to start the league, handling the number of foreigners is an important issue for the football governing body and the club itself. Football experts and former football journalists Biplav Gautam poured their feelings the issue.

ANFA is to have some standards on international players. What happened last year with BUC bringing in players for 2 or 3 matches and MMC bringing players in for the last week of the season was a total joke, the experts said.

The experts said club presidents need to agree on rules for foreigners – like maybe 3 per team (that includes Indians like Dewan) and they all have to be registered before the season starts. No foreigners should be allowed to be registered after the season starts. There would be good support for this because the Army, Police and APF teams will want strict regulations on foreigners.

Three Star Club was really burned by MMC bringing in foreigners last year. Clubs like NTSC, NRT and others might be instrumental in getting ANFA to adopt rules on this as it cost those teams dearly.

The experts were worried that foreign players are getting out of hand. Sulaiman (MFC African recruit) said there are 15 Nigerians in Nepal at the moment.