@Ashlesh Very True. We neglect basic sports culture in Schools. Most schools have Playground for nothing. How many school tournaments we organise? Few states have youth academies for Football and the standard of coaching, nutrition, physical training is also a big question mark. In Cricket, our young players now struggle against quality Spin Bowling and we hardly produce world class spinners. Forget about producing or playing against quality Fast Bowling. Unless we sort out our training facilities and culture right from sub-junior level and train coaches in modern methodology, our fall will continue in all sports, not only in Football.
@AKB you are speaking as if before the ISL started(more or less a year back)Indian Football was almost going to beat teams like Iran ,China ,Japan and suddenly ISL came and spoiled Indian football to sink in deep shit!!!!Do realise that Indian football is being in deep shit for a long period of time..There is no point of blaming a tournament for the shit results of our team..All the International players play multiple tournaments -club football along with international matches...where our players are incompatible to do the same
@7negi-and the ISL is to blame!!You are proving why Indian football is still in such a mess..every one is trying to find the most soft target to blame....You are blaming ISL..AIFF blaming coaches and changing them randomly..Footballers are blaming officials...no one is trying to solve the real problem..so the blame game goes on and on and we sink deeper and deeper
Our team believed we can defeat Guam with our usual style, long balls with no midfield play, no build ups.This wont work against all teams..I will suggest better state leagues a semi professional one in which players can work as well as play on sundays
Thats it Then, GUAM vs India done and dusted. We should start a new Thread about future plans. we can you use that lovely word of Best Federation in the Universe says>>>> LAKSHYA!
@Sunbha123, in 1982 Nehru Cup, India had these results:
against China 1-1, against South Korea 2-2, against Italy Olympic Team 0-1, against Uruguay 1-3, against Yugoslavia B 2-1, overall finishing 5th after Uruguay (Winner), China (Runners up), South Korea, Italy.
Can you dream any of these results today? Also, Uruguay had Enzo Francescoli, Amoro Nadal and Sergio Ramos in their team. These were pre-NFL days, though the rot in the system had set in half a decade earlier. But don't say Indian football was in downswing even in the eighties. If they could have nurtured it further, we could have maintained the same level.
@Deb_Ban,Crores of Gallons of water has passed through Ganges after that and every thing has changed.In my previous post "For a long time" ,meant what I have seen about Indian Football in my life time and 27-28 years in really long time.We cant hold on to our glorious past.Now we need to act.Or else Indian Football will become like Royal Bengal Tiger in Sundarban..Endangered species surviving extinction....
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Unless we sort out our training facilities and culture right from sub-junior level and train coaches in modern methodology, our fall will continue in all sports, not only in Football.
Before ISL - INDIA 4-0 GUAM
AFter ISL India 1-2 GUAM 8-}
@Sunbha123, in 1982 Nehru Cup, India had these results:
against China 1-1, against South Korea 2-2, against Italy Olympic Team 0-1, against Uruguay 1-3, against Yugoslavia B 2-1, overall finishing 5th after Uruguay (Winner), China (Runners up), South Korea, Italy.
Can you dream any of these results today? Also, Uruguay had Enzo Francescoli, Amoro Nadal and Sergio Ramos in their team. These were pre-NFL days, though the rot in the system had set in half a decade earlier. But don't say Indian football was in downswing even in the eighties. If they could have nurtured it further, we could have maintained the same level.
1983 onwards, we became a cricket nation ...