India's chief football coach Wim Koevarmans said that India must play on dates designated by world body FIFA for friendlies if they want to go up in international rankings.
That's sort of an urban myth. Plenty of teams play friendlies outside of the designated FIFA dates and their matches still count for the ranking calculation. The matches Cameroon played in the Nehru Cup could have been considered "A" matches if the AIFF would have added a special clause in the contract the Cameroon FA signed. There have been other occasions when a FA fielded a "B" team, but due to the contract the match was considered an international "A" match.
However, would it have made a difference for India's ranking? India are 169th with 105 points in the September ranking.
Assuming FIFA would have included matches up to Sunday, thus adding the two matches against Cameroon (a loss and a PSO win), India would have had 111 points - tied for 168th with Indonesia. Nothing to write home about.
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Thanks for the Info mate
S-league matches in Oct don't start until 18th Oct and FIFA days are between 12th and 16th so there shouldn't be any issues there.
Anyways, I was hoping that if they did play here then I could go and watch the match. Oh well, wishful thinking I guess
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And more bad news:
Subrata Pal might quit National team duty
INDIAN National team has been included on FIFA 13.
http://www.ea.com/soccer/news/fifa-13-leagues-list-01
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> preetam said:
> And more bad news:
Subrata Pal might quit National team duty
BULLSHIT MADE UP story
Subrata Pal might quit National team duty
BULLSHIT MADE UP story
What a load of bull.no substance or logic in the article..think the author just wanted his article.to.come out
> silicon3 said:
> > somesh said:
> > > preetam said:
> > > And more bad news:
Subrata Pal might quit National team duty
BULLSHIT MADE UP story
> >
> >
> What a load of bull.no substance or logic in the article..think the author just wanted his article.to.come out
subrata should SUE him.....
epic true....
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India's chief football coach Wim Koevarmans said that India must play on dates designated by world body FIFA for friendlies if they want to go up in international rankings.
That's sort of an urban myth. Plenty of teams play friendlies outside of the designated FIFA dates and their matches still count for the ranking calculation.
The matches Cameroon played in the Nehru Cup could have been considered "A" matches if the AIFF would have added a special clause in the contract the Cameroon FA signed. There have been other occasions when a FA fielded a "B" team, but due to the contract the match was considered an international "A" match.
However, would it have made a difference for India's ranking? India are 169th with 105 points in the September ranking.
Assuming FIFA would have included matches up to Sunday, thus adding the two matches against Cameroon (a loss and a PSO win), India would have had 111 points - tied for 168th with Indonesia. Nothing to write home about.
Subrata Pal Not to Hang up His National
fuck yeah 
Team Jersey.
he confirmed to
FeverPitch.in that the news is
absolutely baseless and holds no
truth.
http://feverpitch.in/SiteWeb/Newsdesc.aspx?SID=331E9415-80E8-442D-B63E-0F3AC1928260