new delhi the all india football federation aiff president praful patel on tuesday took a veiled dig at goan clubs for not having the required bandwidth to continue in revamped top tier league as they are not investing in football while providing excusesall the three goan club owners shivanand salgaocar shrinivas dempo and peter vaz sporting clube de goa had taken united stand onto oppose the proposed restructuring that makes isl a toptier league and relegates ileague to the second divisionthe clubs which have pulled out were not investing in football they blame other reasons but the real reason is that they dont have bandwidth now to continue the aiff president did not take names but it was clear to everyone about the clubs he was referring toindias club football system was thrown into turmoil last year when former champions salgaocar and fellow goan side sporting clube de goa withdrew from the current edition of the ileague opposing aiff and imgreliances proposed structure for the new domestic season as the reasonlate last year another goan club dempo also pulled out of the national leaguepraful said that ileague is still countrys premier national league and it remains aiffs top prioritytalking about the much talked about proposed merger between ileague and indian super league the president said that as and when it happens it will be isl that will merge into ileague and not the other way roundthere merger between ileague and isl wont happen this year in future if there is a merger it has to happen in the reverse way isl will have to merge with ileague not the other way round patel told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of inaugural indian womens leagueileague remains our priority because there can only be one nationl league the name can be whatever name is not important he saidmeanwhile with india hosting the fifa under17 world cup in little over eight months time patel said the national federation will continue to extend all support to the host nation team to produce a decent performance in the megaeventwhatever they under17 team want to do the aiff will support we have given them free hand under17 is one team where we havent held back anything we are not interfering at all the aiff chief saidi only hope they make us proud the countrys performance should be recognised