Khadka to Malaysia?
27 October 2002: Holger Oberman is in Nepal to receive the Praballa Gorkha Dakshin Bahuan award and in an interview he stated the he was going to invite Upendra Man Singh to Malaysia to give him training at the Oliver Khan Goalkeeping Institute. He also said that he was trying to get Hari Khadka to join a Malaysian club team.

Thapa continues FIFA post
26 October 2002: Ganesh Thapa has been re-elected to the FIFA Disciplinary Committee. He will also serve as Assistant Coordinator of the AFC Development Fund. The committee is responsible for financial and technical support to member nations to improve quality of the game  (source: KOL).

Club tournaments on the horizon
13 October 2002: Ganesh Thapa stated that after the SAFF Championships his organization would hold a national level and invitational cup tournament. He said that ANFA was consulting "experts" about running these tournaments. For those optimists out there, could it be that the foundations of a national league are being laid?

Training for SAFF Championships to begin
13 October 2002: A closed camp for the South Asian Football Federation Championships, to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh is to commence soon according to the Thapa led ANFA.

Players to be paid
13 October 2002: ANFA (Thapa) announced that 23 national team players would be paid a salary of 2,000 Rupees a month. The players will receive a lump-sum of 10,000 Rupees for the next 5 months. The players being paid are: Upendra Man Singh, Sanjiv Joshi, Ramesh Lama, Rakesh Shrestha, Anil Kumar Subba, Anil Kumar Adhikary, Narottam Gautam, Dev Narayan Chaudhary, Narayan Manandhar, Ananta Raj Thapa, Deepak Lama, Prakash Ranamagar, Kumar Thapa, Bal Gopal Maharjan, Sunil Tuladhar, Ramesh Gyawali, Basanta Kumar Thapa, Nirajan Rayamajhi, Rajan Rayamajhi, Hari Khadka, Ramesh Budathoki, Sukraman Tamang and Dilli Ram Shrestha (source: Kathmandu Post).

Athletes disgrace their nation once again
5 October 2002: Nearly a dozen Nepali athletes have gone missing at the Asian Games in Busan, South Korea. It is believed that all of them are in hiding with hopes to secure employment in Korea. This is just the latest in a string of disappearances by Nepali athletes recently and unfortunately there is general apathy among the sports officials regarding this embarrassing problem. Some teenage girl footballers went missing just a few weeks back at a youth tournament in Norway and four members of the senior national team went missing in Japan during the 1998 World Cup Qualifiers.

Dharan kids win youth tournament
5 October 2002: Depot "Red" of Dharan defeated Gyanodaya "Red" 2 - 0 to win the ANFA Inter-Academy Running Shield. Shishir Adhikari and Bikash Chettri scored the goals for Depot.

MPC get revenge over Eastern boys
2 October 2002: Nepal's cops won the Birthday Cup 4 - 1 and got revenge on the Eastern Region side that had upset them at last year's 25th National Championship. Dev Narayan Chaudhary led the way with two goals, while Hari Khadka and Ramesh Budathoki added one each. Nagendra Limbu hit won back for the Eastern Region while teammate Surendra Tamang was voted "Man of the Tournament."