Why the dislikes for a comment that is true? The guy has nine years of experience in Asia in Japan, Iraq, and Qatar. Reid had 2 years with Thailand. Trevor Morgan has what? India, lower Australia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Herbert has New Zealand.
Not saying I would pick Zico but that he does probably have more knowledge of Asian football than the other three.
I understand AIFF's policy of not considering high profile coaches. Unless we install a system (and ISL in not a part of it) for football to grow, no high profile coach can propel India forward. Save that money.
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On second thoughts, that money will lie unused like a long term fixed deposit. So ...
Save money for salary of high profile coach. Get Derrick Pereira or Pradyum Reddy. We do not have much time left. Our World Cup qualifiers start from June 2015. After ISL, we have Fed Cup and I-League which will just finish by June. In new format, we do not have just one off game. We will have 4 Home and 4 away games in Second Round and I think that we will be seeded directly in Second Round for world Cup qualifiers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(AFC)#Schedule
Pradyum is probably the Indian football equal to Josh McDaniels (American football assistant coach). Will be rubbish as a head coach but have him as your assistant and you will do pretty well.
Not sure if this link had been provided here before. It talks about who all applied for the post including former Argentine player Miguel Angel Brindisi.
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BTW he was sacked in 4 months at olmp. Not impressed with him at Fc goa also.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(AFC)#Schedule
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/Top-coaches-in-race-to-succeed-Wim-Koevermans/articleshow/45293526.cms