@Hassan and others, I dont get the idea that ISL would uplift the standard of indian football at all. Lets disect the facts shall we?
- If having 8 Indian players on the pitch for I-league, Having even fewer doesnt give you a bigger base to choose for the NT
- Playing with top yesteryears stars wouldnt make the indians playing in the tournament any better, Football training is all year activity and suddenly 3-4 months wouldnt make you better
- They are making things worse in indian football by having shorter contracts for much higher base rate. If we are blasting clubs paying 60-70 lakhs a year to Ranti in I-league, You are actually paying same amounts to Nirmal chettri, franco & Frickin renedy singh!!
- My biggest LOL moment each time youngsters say there "Friends" havent heard about I-League how will they even know about the ISL given its only 2 months and very little is transparent on what exactly is happening. Best your "friend" can be better watching European football cos the quality wont be a massive difference on what we would have actually seen.
Erwin Spitzner (centre-back), Gustavo Marmentini dos Santos and Bruno de Lima (attacking midfielder), Guilherme Felipe de Castro (defensive midfielder) and Pedro Adriano Veloso Gusmao (striker) will be part of the ISL’s international players’ draft and are product of Atletico PR’s youth team.
Apart from the above mentioned players, there are three French centre-backs in Sylvain Monsoreau (former Lyon and AS Monaco), Cedric Hengbart (former Auxxerre) and Youness Bengelloun (former PSG ‘B’) in the elite roster.
Four Colombian and a Serbian player have also been roped in for the international players draft.
@Dx, with all the questions you are asking, you are running the risk of getting yourself branded as anti-ISL or anti-development.
But I think ISL is good in one front. It will allow guys like @Ashlesh devote more time to studies (I wish him for his studies), after ISL is over. If not studying, people can always follow EPL, or Saas Bahu series, or whatever.
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Apart from the above mentioned players, there are three French centre-backs in Sylvain Monsoreau (former Lyon and AS Monaco), Cedric Hengbart (former Auxxerre) and Youness Bengelloun (former PSG ‘B’) in the elite roster.
Four Colombian and a Serbian player have also been roped in for the international players draft.