Football Absence, Indonesia Lost the Chance of Gold Medal in 2018 Asian Para Games

DBasia.news – The 2018 Asian Para Games perhaps would be empty for football lovers because there won’t be any football match when Indonesia become the host. The Asia Paralympic Committee (APC) decided to exclude the Cerebral Palsy (CP) Football because it won’t be conducted in the 2020 Paralympic Tokyo.

APC wanted to make the 2018 Asian Para Games as the athlete qualification place ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic. The absence of Cerebral Palsy Football made Indonesia as the host couldn’t list the sport in the 2018 Asian Para Games.

In fact, Indonesia have the opportunity to steal the gold medal of CP Football, considering the result in 2017 ASEAN Para Games in Malaysia, where the Garuda team became the champion after defeating Thailand in the final round.

“All sports matches in Asian Para Games are according to the Paralympic Games. So the Asian Para Games is also the qualification period ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games,” said Waluyo from NPC Indonesia.

Waluyo admitted Indonesia have the chance to get the gold medal from CP Football. The Garuda team could compete Iran’s performance as the defending champion of 2014 Incheon Asian Para Games.

The 2018 Asian Para Games will conduct 18 sports on 6 to 13 of October. There would be 2,888 athletes from 41 countries enliven the four-year sports event.

The number broke the record of 2014 Incheon Asian Para Games. In the previous event, the participants are 2,458.