We have SAFF 5 matches +WC qualifiers 2 matches+Round 2 WC qualifiers 6 matches 13 matches AIFF should be samrt if we win 6-7 we will have a boost in ranking
Disregarding the FIFA rankings, the AIFF should be aiming for the national team to win the SAFF Cup and win the preliminary round of the qualifiers. Those should be achieved at least while the result in the group stage of qualifiers can be decided once the draw is made.
As for the U22 side, the goal should be to qualify for the AFC U-23 Asian Cup. We can beat Bangladesh and we should ideally beat Syria while not humiliating ourselves against Uzbekistan.
An increase in the FIFA rankings will come with these results.
India need better system, not big names as coaches: Baichung Bhutia
Even an Alex Ferguson or Zico will 'struggle' to change the fortunes of the game in India if a proper youth development system will not be in place, football icon Baichung Bhutia said on Thursday.
"Good coaches will deliver good results with good players. In India we need to start developing our players. But if we don't give good players, and if you bring in Alex Ferguson as well, they would also struggle," he said reacting to rumours that Brazilian great Zico maybe approached to succeed Wim Koevermans as India's next football coach.
"Zico is a great coach no doubt. But if you don't give him the 20 good players, he's also going to struggle. Let's invest in the U-17 team and tournaments, selection and then hopefully the quality of the game when they start playing in seniors will be much better than our standards! That time we can invest in a good foreign coach. It's important to change the quality. That is the format I'm looking at."
On the technical committee to pick India's next coach, Bhutia said the focus is not to go for a high profile coach for the seniors and instead to invest on a good U-17 coach.
"My personal view is not to spend much money as we did on Bob Houghton or Wim Kovermans. You want to see that salary is good but want to ensure that we don't spend much.
"We are also looking at U-17 coach. We also want to spend a decent amount on this. We want to bring somebody with a good background that is also going to cost money. We also want somebody who's attached with Indian football."
Asked whether they would go for an Indian or foreign name, he said:
"It could be Indian or foreign. But they should have knowledge or done something for the Indian football."
"It's important to have Indian coaching staff as well. He's going to help out and it will make a difference. We've not discussed anybody's name," he said about the meeting which is scheduled on December 21.
On the criteria of selecting the youth coach, he said: "We have to see his record, his experience and record with youth teams across the world. Not a bad idea to have somebody with the experience of coaching a senior team as well?"
The Zico formula had done the trick for Japan but Bhutia said the Brazilian was part of their rise as Asian powerhouse.
"He (Zico) has not changed all alone. Changes come with the system. It's not one single person. They have done a lot of grass roots level. They have really spent on the youth development."
Lamenting India's latest low in the FIFA rankings (171), Bhutia said
it's high time to have a youth development system.
"The ranking is a major concern. Right now with ISL and the U-17 World Cup (in 2017) the attention is on the Indian football. We have to really focus on developing youth.
"In reality we do nothing for youth development. I've not come through a good system. And a lot of players have not come through the system. We got to create that system.
"World is going to watch you. When you are forced to do it, you do it. We just have been left with one option -- to develop the youth system."
For once, Bhutia is actually right. The idea right now from the AIFF should be to get in a coach who can get the results I said above and a U17 coach who they feel can make India U17s look good for the U17 World Cup.
The hope should be that at the end we will have a stable national team to build a base off of. A decent U17 side that can assure India a good future and with it some money from companies that look at India and the market for football in the country.
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13 matches AIFF should be samrt if we win 6-7 we will have a boost in ranking
http://zeenews.india.com/sports/football/india-need-better-system-not-big-names-as-coaches-baichung-bhutia_1517015.html
source TOI article today by Marcus
expect India to be n 190 By june then
Isn't he blocking the path for some young striker like a Manas Sarkar at KEB !!
Hope someine 2 foots the Sikkimese Crook....his impending divorce is what is forcing these stupid decisions