@Leedsonperez Many Oman people are Blacks. Infact many Arabs are black who are there in Arabian peninsula for hundreds of years. Also historically, Zanzibar was a part of Oman till 1960s and Zanzibar is on East coast of Africa. Those Black Oman people have now no connection to Africa other then their looks and colour. We have community of Siddi people in Karnataka, Gujarat who are now in India for hundreds of years. Anyone remember former Salgaocar player Juje Siddi???
Siddi people really look like africans....danm..... india should have find some siddi kids back in 90's and send them to any football academies....then we would have been one of top footballing nation in asia and challenge all west asian sides......just like oman and qutar doing now....
Hope SC/Venky goes through comments in this forum in addition to their strategies for WC qualifiers. Definitely it would add to his existing wisdom while applying it to WC qualifiers.
@munna Where is Juje sidhi now ?? I remember him .. He played for India in olympic qualifier matches. Those days GKeepers wore pants . Now only EB goal keeper wear that : )
@Leedsonperez Well we did that in 1980s. Rajiv Gandhi was very enthusiastic about Sports and after 1982 Asian Games, modern infrastructure was introduced in India. Sports Authority of India did Special Area Games Project. like they selected Siddi kids for Athletics. same way Haryana Jat kids for Boxing, Rajasthan Tribal kids for Archery, Punjab for Hockey, Manipur for Football and so on. But that scheme fizzled out in 1990s for various reasons. This is a good article: http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/hFhflj1k0kGRXGr9YAiIGP/Genetics--The-race-to-a-better-life.html
@shibier I got no news on Juje Siddi. Somebody from Goa can tell if he is still involved in Coaching or something like that.
Hmmm its not racism...siddis olso indians...i just dont want it based on race but i want to spread football all over india....india is multi race country....in football physic is most imporant and we are nothing in international football becuse of our weak physic and fitness but africans ruling world football becuse of their physic and stamina....so we should find and send siddi indians to football academies...we also start academy in andaman nicobar and lakshadweeb then scout players from andaman,lakshaweep etc and bangalore futbal assosian and bengalaru fc should show interest to find siddi indians and give them education+futbal traing+this is wat qatar and oman doing now....even edgar davids and seedorf both are not dutch they are surinam orgins...most netherlands players are from their academies but india dont need to do that as siddis are indian nationals....so we can nourish our players in our country
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We have community of Siddi people in Karnataka, Gujarat who are now in India for hundreds of years. Anyone remember former Salgaocar player Juje Siddi???
http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/hFhflj1k0kGRXGr9YAiIGP/Genetics--The-race-to-a-better-life.html
@shibier I got no news on Juje Siddi. Somebody from Goa can tell if he is still involved in Coaching or something like that.
They will compete in the 2nd Division next season