I-League side Viva Kerala have pulled out of 114th edition of IFA Shield after failing to register their foreign players for the tournament plus with many other players being down with fever.
The club have earlier confirmed the signings of Africans Reuben Senyo and Charles Dzisah but due to some technical reasons both Ghanian's were not able to fly to India.
Meanwhile the former Mahindra United defender Bello Razaq who is in Nigeria haven't got his Indian visa to join with the Kerala club. This prompted the club to withdraw from the prestigious tournament and focus only on the upcoming I-League.
Source: Indianfootball.com
From the archive. First published on footballkerala.com on Friday 21 August 2009, restored from the site's 2012 database. Text as originally published.