This is news thread. So please delete all these irrelevant posts. Everybody has an opinion and so does arsenalfan. Even I do not agree with many things he says but I do not support how Proj attacked him personally.
<br><div style="font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; ">+1</div><div style="font-style: normal; "><br></div><div>Agree that we should delete all these posts. All we need is a user who did not log in for the last 2 days come on here and think that he just missed a football <i>Battle Royal.</i> </div><div><br></div><div>Also I dont want there to be personal issues between me, Rudra and Proj. I like the insight you both bring in and Rudra I love your photos.</div>
<h1 id="hd" class="articleheader" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Jamshid on the ball</h1><div><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td class="articleauthor" style="font-size: 8pt; ">Jamshid Nassiri on the game he loves, his lost friend Majid Bashkar and his goal for Indian football</td></tr><tr><td class="story" align="left" style="font-size: 9pt; "><p align="left" class="story" style="font-size: 9pt; ">Even at 53, Maidan legend Jamshid Nassiri eats, sleeps and dreams football. A <b>t2 </b>chat at Calcutta Parsee Club with one of the nicest men you’ll ever meet.</p><p align="left" class="story" style="font-size: 9pt; ">Studies brought you to India and you stayed back for the love of football. After spending almost 30 years, do you ever regret the move?</p><p align="left" class="story" style="font-size: 9pt; ">Basically, I came to study in India (Aligarh Muslim University) in those days and at the same time, I was a member of the Iran senior national team that came to India at that moment. Before that, of course, I was in the junior team. At the same time, since I was playing, I came to know that the clubs in Calcutta are very famous and they are very competitive in this state. So, that’s why, I preferred to come to Calcutta to play.</p><p align="left" class="story" style="font-size: 9pt; ">That was the time that East Bengal approached me and my friend Majid Bashkar. They had lost seven of their regular players to Mohammedan Sporting Club. We played for East Bengal and that year, thank God, we did not lose any match to any Indian or foreign team. That was 1980. We won all the trophies we took part in. That’s how I started playing in India.</p><p align="left" class="story" style="font-size: 9pt; ">Since I was playing at the top level, I preferred to stay on. Later on I got married. By that time, a lot of my friends who were there during my school days were no more in Iran. They had gone to different parts of the world for studies. My parents also keep coming to India every year or every alternate year. So, I preferred to remain in India. Besides, food habits, culture, traditions are more or less similar among the Iranians and the Indians.</p><p align="left" class="story" style="font-size: 9pt; ">And I preferred Calcutta to anywhere else in India. I don’t miss Iran much. My parents are the main reason for my going there. They still stay in Iran. They travel back and forth. A sister of mine lives in Bombay. So, they also come to Bombay. I don’t get the time to go to Iran. If I go there, I have to stay there for at least a week or two weeks. Here, I am very busy with the games and the children and home and office. So, I prefer to be here.</p><p align="left" class="story" style="font-size: 9pt; "><hr>This is just a snippet of the article. It was way to long.</p><p align="left" class="story" style="font-size: 9pt; ">Here is the full thing... http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120529/jsp/entertainment/story_15542141.jsp#.T8Q5D5lYvGA</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div>;
Sounds good. Are they affiliated with Churchill Brothers in anyway because of Beto. As in BFA is a supply line for Churchill to bring there products into I-League.
Sounds good. Are they affiliated with Churchill Brothers in anyway because of Beto. As in BFA is a supply line for Churchill to bring there products into I-League.
</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 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">NO they are not BFA affiliated to Vasco Football club </font></div>
<br><div><br></div><div>Meh, still good I guess. At least the players at BFA have a place to go and many players join I-League clubs from Vasco all the time (notable being Joy Ferrao and Koko Sakibo to Dempo) so again... very good job.</div>
<font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">GFA course concludes</font><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><div>MARGAO: The 7-day D-license football coaching course conducted by Goa Football Association concluded, Saturday at PJN Stadium, Fatorda. </div><div><br></div><div>Twenty-nine aspiring coaches participated in the with Savio Medeira being the chief instructor. Brahmanand Shankwalker was the chief with Gavin Araujo assisting in the conduct of the course. </div><div><br></div><div>Jovito Lopes and Anthony John D’Costa instructed the participants on nutrition for footballers and first aid and the laws of the game respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>GFA committee member Anthony Pango was the chief guest at the concluding function and distributed the certificates. Welvin Menezes was the guest of honour.</div><div><hr>Sweet. Not happy that Savio was chief instructor but amazing none the less.</div><div><br>Source: http://www.heraldgoa.in/News/Sports/GFA-course-concludes/60019.html</div></font></div>;
Mumbai FC has been a major disappointment. I personally wanted Mumbaikars to back football (since Delhiites are least interested in football ) but what I get to hear all the time is another of these north eastern clubs forcing their way into the top by influencing officials with voodoo magic..........SUCKS !!
<br><div><br></div><div>Considering Mumbai FC have not played in Mumbai for the last 3 years it is no surprise. Wait a bit.</div><div><br></div><div>As for Delhi, you obviously have not seen the India internationals at Ambedkar.</div><div><br>Also what is this voodoo magic you speak of. The NE Clubs are at the top because they deserve it. USFC and SLFC want to change Indian football so let them. Hopefully Aizawl FC and another NE club come up and help out.</div><div><br></div><div>Now then if we should blame anyone it is the Pune people. They have the most professional club in India which markets the team best and has the interest of the public at mind all the time and yet there fan base is outright shit. The turn-out for the Blackburn game should have been enough. If Pune FC were in America then they would be 4th Division in terms of off the field. They are great but the fan base is just awful. I feel sorry for Pune FC sometimes because the people just dont seem interested.</div>
<br><br>Dud i completely disagree to your views.<br><br>PFC has a decent fan following ..every game around 2000 spectators turn up.. the biggest porblem of PFC is the Shit public transport ...only a sinlge bus plies between the pune rly station and the stadium which hosts pfc matches. <br>i would agree that IPL matches are hosted on a stadium near the expressway..and still it draws 40000 spectatotrs.<br><br>The spirit is there ,but the quantity isnt .the club is just 4 years old. need to give some time to them.. After 10 years surely we would be having better attendence... and PFC needs the football culture to grow .. They are taking the necessary steps. a steeel sheet cant be called a ship unless it is built. and for building it takes years...<br>dont lose hope my friend... and yes am too a big time arsenal fan and had the honour of watching one PFC game with an official arsenal Chef...donwt know why he had came to pune.....<br><br><br>
I don't have much time right now but I will be brief, just one point about north easterners. North Easterners became famous by playing in Calcutta, not in the north east, so we have seen the north easterners much longer than the north easterners have seen them playing in shillong or gangtok. <br><br>There is serious disappointment with the north easterners quality of play over the years in Calcutta and most clubs are trying to reduce north easterners in the team. In fact, this season, East Bengal's failures, the bit they had were mostly concluded due to their over reliance on north easterners, so much so a left back like Robert was not even starting in the first eleven, forget Paite, he was not even starting with CB. And Sanju is a product of EB youth development, not sure if you are aware but Sanju's serious limitations and his failing to fulfill the promise he showed early on is everyone's knowledge here. So it's a very different perspective, and I don't see anything wrong in having a different perspective, I strongly believe, reliance on north easterners can be seriously detrimental to a team's success given their vast limitations in many areas.<br><br>India is more a conglomerate of vastly different cultures as opposed to being a uniformly cultured nation. And don't talk of regionalism in Calcutta, first lecture the guys down south and even the north easterners on it, groupism is omnipresent in India and is very necessary to succeed in the framework India is, no wonder folks in Calcutta are at last waking up to it and doing something about it. I hope they seriously continue with this, maintain strong unity amongst themselves to counter groupism of the other states, especially folks down south and the north east<br><br>Lastly about me not having watched chung bhutia enough, all I can say you haven't seen the others and some of his predecessors enough. And about his achievement, nothing to envy, the administrative side is all fake.
<br><br>i dont know why you are blaspheming all the way in an football forumm.<br>seriouls u need to get a beer or too mate..<br>chill man man has evolved in groupism and fight in group right from the neanderthal man .<br><br>Just to judge by religion : Best Hindu player I dont know <br>Best muslim player: I dont know<br>Best Christian/jew/punjabi player: i dont know .<br><br>Ya hell but i know that once you enter the filed ,it hardly matters if you are a n anwar ali or sunil chettri or clifford miranda or ravinder singh...... <br><br>India is evolving ,you need to be patient and not a patient....<br><br><br><br><br><br>
Mumbai FC has been a major disappointment. I personally wanted Mumbaikars to back football (since Delhiites are least interested in football ) but what I get to hear all the time is another of these north eastern clubs forcing their way into the top by influencing officials with voodoo magic..........SUCKS !!
<br><div><br></div><div>Considering Mumbai FC have not played in Mumbai for the last 3 years it is no surprise. Wait a bit.</div><div><br></div><div>As for Delhi, you obviously have not seen the India internationals at Ambedkar.</div><div><br>Also what is this voodoo magic you speak of. The NE Clubs are at the top because they deserve it. USFC and SLFC want to change Indian football so let them. Hopefully Aizawl FC and another NE club come up and help out.</div><div><br></div><div>Now then if we should blame anyone it is the Pune people. They have the most professional club in India which markets the team best and has the interest of the public at mind all the time and yet there fan base is outright shit. The turn-out for the Blackburn game should have been enough. If Pune FC were in America then they would be 4th Division in terms of off the field. They are great but the fan base is just awful. I feel sorry for Pune FC sometimes because the people just dont seem interested.</div>
<br><br>Dud i completely disagree to your views.<br><br>PFC has a decent fan following ..every game around 2000 spectators turn up.. the biggest porblem of PFC is the Shit public transport ...only a sinlge bus plies between the pune rly station and the stadium which hosts pfc matches. <br>i would agree that IPL matches are hosted on a stadium near the expressway..and still it draws 40000 spectatotrs.<br><br>The spirit is there ,but the quantity isnt .the club is just 4 years old. need to give some time to them.. After 10 years surely we would be having better attendence... and PFC needs the football culture to grow .. They are taking the necessary steps. a steeel sheet cant be called a ship unless it is built. and for building it takes years...<br>dont lose hope my friend... and yes am too a big time arsenal fan and had the honour of watching one PFC game with an official arsenal Chef...donwt know why he had came to pune.....<br><br><br>
<br><div><br></div><div>Agreeable. I did not know about this problem till after I posted this so ya I can tell I am wrong here. The support is there. I am sure that as the I-League gets better the attendance will get better. </div><div><br></div><div>I agree that I was rushing here and should have remembered that both Mumbai and Pune are only 4 years old.</div>
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<br><div style="font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; ">+1</div><div style="font-style: normal; "><br></div><div>Agree that we should delete all these posts. All we need is a user who did not log in for the last 2 days come on here and think that he just missed a football <i>Battle Royal.</i> </div><div><br></div><div>Also I dont want there to be personal issues between me, Rudra and Proj. I like the insight you both bring in and Rudra I love your photos.</div>
<br><div><br></div><div>Meh, still good I guess. At least the players at BFA have a place to go and many players join I-League clubs from Vasco all the time (notable being Joy Ferrao and Koko Sakibo to Dempo) so again... very good job.</div>
<br><div><br></div><div>so was he too with sahil???or any other achievement??</div>
<br><br>Dud i completely disagree to your views.<br><br>PFC has a decent fan following ..every game around 2000 spectators turn up.. the biggest porblem of PFC is the Shit public transport ...only a sinlge bus plies between the pune rly station and the stadium which hosts pfc matches. <br>i would agree that IPL matches are hosted on a stadium near the expressway..and still it draws 40000 spectatotrs.<br><br>The spirit is there ,but the quantity isnt .the club is just 4 years old. need to give some time to them.. After 10 years surely we would be having better attendence... and PFC needs the football culture to grow .. They are taking the necessary steps. a steeel sheet cant be called a ship unless it is built. and for building it takes years...<br>dont lose hope my friend... and yes am too a big time arsenal fan and had the honour of watching one PFC game with an official arsenal Chef...donwt know why he had came to pune.....<br><br><br>
<br><br>i dont know why you are blaspheming all the way in an football forumm.<br>seriouls u need to get a beer or too mate..<br>chill man man has evolved in groupism and fight in group right from the neanderthal man .<br><br>Just to judge by religion : Best Hindu player I dont know <br>Best muslim player: I dont know<br>Best Christian/jew/punjabi player: i dont know .<br><br>Ya hell but i know that once you enter the filed ,it hardly matters if you are a n anwar ali or sunil chettri or clifford miranda or ravinder singh...... <br><br>India is evolving ,you need to be patient and not a patient....<br><br><br><br><br><br>
<br><div><br></div><div>Agreeable. I did not know about this problem till after I posted this so ya I can tell I am wrong here. The support is there. I am sure that as the I-League gets better the attendance will get better. </div><div><br></div><div>I agree that I was rushing here and should have remembered that both Mumbai and Pune are only 4 years old.</div>