I hope it becomes a beacon fot middle average players and not the other way round. Because I do remember very well the late 80s and 90s before national league. It took time for players to become professional, just don't want to again run on parallel boats. Adequate measures should be taken to ensure that players first try professionally and then go to these institutes., otherwise for me the cons are much more than pros.
in other thread i posted about job scenes of players like Anas Edathodika, Rino Anto etc. Such players should get to play in these type of leagues. This league should cater to the players who were good enough but past their prime and of the likes of Alan Deory which was recently days discussed in other thread . I went through the names of the team names in the article such as Air India, HAL, JCT which gave me a pre 2010 vibes which many on the forum hated to see.
Yes I hope that is the case and instead young players do not buy easy way out
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