chennai top football players from south east asia may have to travel to chennai for rehabilitation pretty soon sri ramachandra university sru which hosts an icc rehabilitation centre is in talks with fifa to open a centre for excellence where football players from this zone will come to recuperate from injuries according to sources sri ramachandra arthroscopy and sports sciences centre srasc a wing of sru has already signed an mou with sports authority of india sai pertaining to sportsinjury management and rehabilitation programme and they now want to take it one step forward and become a part of the fifa family srasc has a football ground of its own where chennaiyin fc the indian super league team for the city practiced last year its a worldclass facility but we dont want to comment on the fifa deal yet said an official fifa on its part was more forthcoming we have such centres in japan if it happens this would be our first in southeast asia going purely by the body of their work we can safely say that the institute has one of the best chances to make the cut a fifa official said adding that st marianna university of medicine was the first to be accredited by fifa in asia way back in 2007 to become a fifa centre of excellence the institute needs to have a separate football ground which has to be approved by fifa curators it also needs to have successful involvement in research on player treatment rehabilitation and injury prevention the fifa official added srassc meets most of the criteria and there will be an evaluation by a fifa team before a final decision is taken the evaluation process usually takes between 36 months the entire program is carried out by our medical team said the fifa official