If IMG is sucessful in it's marketing through TV and ISL is huge huge sucess I feel lot will change
Specially Indians with 6 foreigners in team would start playing fast pace football and we will stop seeing random Aamateur Africans footballers dominating our league
Fan base would be huge May be we will have a league like Chinese league
But IMG has to be sucessful
When I see marquees I really think if sme FB group guys who used to say retired 40 year old players with bellies will will come and play.but that's not the case
what will happen when IMG r contract will get over who will run isl will it get scraped and I a sure aiff idiots will not be able to run it only a football loving organization can run it properly like IFN.
@mohammed_87hassan That is so easy to say but lets be realistic here. ISL will ride the hype train until the beginning of the season, people in India will take notice, marquees will attract eyeballs, and the good quality from STAR Sports will also keep people interested and excited but once the league begins we will see a dramatic drop in popularity. We will still have a core group who are interested which will still outnumber the amount of I-League fans but we will not have the millions of EPL, La Liga fans.
Why? Because, these are teams which will be under coaches who do not know a single player. The teams will also barely have any practice time together as an actual team so the time to develop an understanding and style of play will not happen... this will thus make the play we see on the field look bad. Also remember, these are EPL and La Liga fans we are targeting here and they are used to the world-class standard of teams like Chelsea and Real Madrid so watching this will be a massive drop.
Also, the organizers made a massive blunder by having a game everyday like in the IPL. IPL has enough interest to sustain that but ISL will not. People will soon get tired of watching a game every day and ratings and potentially crowds will begin to decrease.
That is why I believe what happens post-ISL Season 1 will define the future of the league and Indian football.... what will IMG-Reliance learn and take from season one? What will change? How will we improve?
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Specially Indians with 6 foreigners in team would start playing fast pace football and we will stop seeing random Aamateur Africans footballers dominating our league
Fan base would be huge
May be we will have a league like Chinese league
But IMG has to be sucessful
When I see marquees I really think if sme FB group guys who used to say retired 40 year old players with bellies will will come and play.but that's not the case
But I think I-league would be over
U know they can buy Aiff
I would love ISL to be year long and Bfc buying Bengaluru franchise and Chennai Hydrabad having teams
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