Someone who has coached in India and has AFC Cup exp( India will be playing these AFC Cup nations for next 3 years, coach who has seen, faced clubs from Kuwait, Bahrain, Singapore, Indonesia etc will clearly have an advantage) .
So for me Armando Colaco and Karim Bencharifa even that Serbian coach of Churchill Brothers would be a ideal choice.
No coach, however qualified or reputed, will be able to raise Indian football. We need a system overhaul, which I don’t see coming in near future with India’s infatuation on ISL and its total neglect of its league and grassroots. In my opinion, any one of Colaco, Westwood, Sattorie or even Bruzon is capable of handling the NT (I don’t mind even Subrata Bhattacharya or Bhowmik because they really do not have much of work other than selecting the team – much less enforcing a style, that is a job should be undertaken much earlier), with the grassroots being handled by a team of foreign experts. This team should be responsible for engraving tiki taka or whatever style seems fit for us. The league MUST be given its own place. And circuses shown the doors (it is the gravest of times). FIFA dates must be utilized. Age-group teams be sent abroad. The list is familiar. Bottom line is, we need not raise the house over hunt for NT coach.
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In my opinion, any one of Colaco, Westwood, Sattorie or even Bruzon is capable of handling the NT (I don’t mind even Subrata Bhattacharya or Bhowmik because they really do not have much of work other than selecting the team – much less enforcing a style, that is a job should be undertaken much earlier), with the grassroots being handled by a team of foreign experts. This team should be responsible for engraving tiki taka or whatever style seems fit for us.
The league MUST be given its own place. And circuses shown the doors (it is the gravest of times). FIFA dates must be utilized. Age-group teams be sent abroad.
The list is familiar. Bottom line is, we need not raise the house over hunt for NT coach.