</font><h6 class="uiStreamMessage uiStreamHeadline" data-ft="{"tn":":"}" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; "><div class="actorDescription actorName" data-ft="{"type":2,"tn":":"}" style="padding-bottom: 3px; "><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal;"><font size="3">Newly promoted club ONGC will play their home matches in Ambedkar Stadium,Delhi...</font></span></div></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; "><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal;"><font size="3">This decision was taken so as to spread the I league all over the country...<br>Last time ONGC were a Mumbai based club in the I league during 2010/11 season.</font></span></h6><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">
</font><br><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">Very Good decision by ONGC. They are showing interest in increasing the fan base. Only if they could fulfill the AFC licensing criteria.</font></div>
</font><h6 class="uiStreamMessage uiStreamHeadline" data-ft="{"tn":":"}" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; "><div class="actorDescription actorName" data-ft="{"type":2,"tn":":"}" style="padding-bottom: 3px; "><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal;"><font size="3">Newly promoted club ONGC will play their home matches in Ambedkar Stadium,Delhi...</font></span></div></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; "><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal;"><font size="3">This decision was taken so as to spread the I league all over the country...<br>Last time ONGC were a Mumbai based club in the I league during 2010/11 season.</font></span></h6><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">
</font><br><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">Very Good decision by ONGC. They are showing interest in increasing the fan base. Only if they could fulfill the AFC licensing criteria.</font></div>
<br><div><br></div><div>I am not 100% sure but this is said by a guy in fb who got good contacts....still lets just hope it happens</div>
Prayag will shift base to Siliguri next year to increase the fan base.AIFF is planning to have a match between la Liga club and I League all star 11 during August.Kushal Das confirmed that salary cap for players clause will be added next year in club licensing norms.<br>
Prayag will shift base to Siliguri next year to increase the fan base.AIFF is planning to have a match between la Liga club and I League all star 11 during August.Kushal Das confirmed that salary cap for players clause will be added next year in club licensing norms.</font><br><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">
</font><br><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">IF true its good</div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">i was proposing this all kind of all star game for quite some time</font></div>
<br><div><br></div><div>If they are willing to change then I have no problem with them playing at the Ambedkar or Cooperage (for one year). Man I hope they do what Dempo do. I mean, who in the right mind would support a team named "ONGC FC" in Delhi or Mumbai. In Mumbai you have Mumbai FC and in Delhi they have no one but ONGC just does not sound right.</div>
<img src="http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/01064/03MP_SABIRPASHA_jp_1064099f.jpg"; alt="Coach Syed Sabir Pasha. Photo: K. Pichumani"><div><div class="articleLead" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic; position: relative; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; ">Syed Sabir Pasha for whom scoring goals was effortless during his heyday. But as coach of the Tamil Nadu team, what's his goal for the State in the forthcoming Santosh Trophy?</p></div><p class="body" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Drop a football at his feet and Syed Sabir Pasha would ensure he scored a goal in a jiffy. So sure was he with his left foot, so confident with his swift movements and so assured when the moment to strike arrived. These qualities made him one of the best strikers in the game in the Nineties. It is a different matter that coaches of that era did not utilise him the way they should have because, in their eyes, he did not belong to any ‘popular club'!</p><p class="body" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Such things mattered in Indian football, but it did not stop him from becoming a hero on that wonderful December evening at the Nehru Stadium in Chennai when, in front of his home crowd, he slotted the only goal for India's football gold in the SAF Games in 1995. “That goal is still fresh in my mind. I cherish it for that has been the happiest moment in my football career, till date,” says the suave footballer, a manager with Indian Bank and now a qualified coach, ready for other responsibilities.</p><p class="body" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">For someone to whom football is dear to his heart, it's no wonder he continues to remain motivated and nurse hopes of better times for the sport. After leaving his playing days behind in 2006, Pasha decided on coaching and it did not take long for him to complete the AFC ‘C' ‘B' and ‘A' licence courses, something that qualified him to take up duties as a national level coach. The AIFF teamed him with the foreign Technical Director Colm Toal for junior level coaching programmes. He had been an assistant to Toal in the national U-19 training and with Sukhvinder Singh in taking care of the U-23 set of players. More such responsibilities are in store but, for the moment, he had been given a different task — coaching the Tamil Nadu team for the Santosh Trophy national championship, scheduled to take place shortly in Odisha.</p><p class="body" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">History has never been kind to Tamil Nadu as the State is still to win the coveted Santosh Trophy, though it did reach the final once in the Seventies. In recent times, Tamil Nadu has progressed to the semi-final stage. “It used to be my dream to win the Santosh Trophy at least once for Tamil Nadu,” he says. “As a player, I was associated twice with the team in its progress to the semi-final. I hope, as a coach, I will be able to do better and fulfil the players' big dream,” says Pasha, aware of the daunting task ahead.</p><p class="body" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">“Actually, we have good players but we need to think big,” he says, lamenting the fact that big time football is not on the city's football calendar. “The advantage the leading states have is that the I-league is regularly held there. This enables many up-and-coming footballers watch talented foreign players and our own stars,” says Pasha. In Tamil Nadu, the problem is most players are satisfied if they get an opportunity to play for a club in the Chennai league and maybe the State thereafter. “We have to look beyond that. For today football brings bigger opportunities and money for the best talent,” he says.</p><p class="body" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Can Pasha turn things around in his own persuasive way? Only time will tell. But the advantage he enjoys as an ex-international is he is well-known and players will look up to him for advice. “If I am able to make them think my way, I feel half my job will be done. Yes, I look forward to wonderful times ahead,” he says about his second innings.</p></div>
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</font><br><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">Very Good decision by ONGC. They are showing interest in increasing the fan base. Only if they could fulfill the AFC licensing criteria.</font></div>
<br><div><br></div><div>I am not 100% sure but this is said by a guy in fb who got good contacts....still lets just hope it happens</div>
</font><br><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">IF true its good</div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">i was proposing this all kind of all star game for quite some time</font></div>
<br><div><br></div><div>If they are willing to change then I have no problem with them playing at the Ambedkar or Cooperage (for one year). Man I hope they do what Dempo do. I mean, who in the right mind would support a team named "ONGC FC" in Delhi or Mumbai. In Mumbai you have Mumbai FC and in Delhi they have no one but ONGC just does not sound right.</div>