well I dont blame them entirely. both never got those many chances... Namit got one game in WC may be one in mexico... dont even know What Sunny did , with Dheeraj being hero he will never get chance..
dont know if they are good players or not but atleast they should have got some decent amount of matches (by representing NT)..
Those NRI kids have to finish their High School abroad, look to college admissions and also take a decision on their citizenship when they turn 18. They will not hang around here for long.
There is no needs to find NRI kids except the kid is exceptionally talented. Rather Invest in youth in India and build indigenous player. India a continent itself by its size and the kind of diversity it has be it weather or people.
We have the potential to produce world class player if we serious about that. Success never come by short cut, you have to earn it by your hard work and dedication.
Player like Sunny Dhaliwal or Namit Deshpande will never add value to your team. This kind of players abundantly available in every corner of India. So adding these players in the world cup squad is nothing but shows the arrogancy of Abhishek Yadav. Gaffertape has already mentioned that.
And crumble is what they did, rather spectacularly in the second half against Ghana. The post-match press release that the All India Football Federation sent out called it a ‘game of two halves’. Yet the only difference between the two halves was that Ghana got what they deserved in the second — three goals. The Ghana coach would later admit that this was a deliberate tactic. He had seen past AIFF’s coat of paint — their wall might seem intimidating at first, might even withstand the first barrage of attacks, but there was no way it was going to resist over a longer period of time. For that, the foundations have to be strong. When everything was said and done, India were dead last. Games played — three, games lost — three, points — zero and a goal difference of minus eight. The only positive was the one in the goals scored section, Jeakson Singh’s futile, albeit historic effort against Colombia. North Korea were the next worst team, finishing level of points (or lack of them), but conceding fewer goals. Chile went into their final game with no points and the same goal difference as India.
A defeat would have sent them last. But they somehow held on for a draw against Mexico, making India officially the worst team of the 2017 U-17 World Cup. Worse than New Caledonia, who most people here hadn’t heard of until they came here to play the World Cup. The reaction to India’s maiden World Cup journey were immediately divided into two camps, one toeing the official, hyperbolic line of a ‘new dawn’ and the team ‘winning a billion hearts’. The other camp begged to differ, divided only by who they chose to pin the blame on. The same journalists who applauded Luis Norton de Matos into the press conference post the Colombia game chose to wag fingers at him after the Ghana one. “Three games, nine goals, what do you have to say?” someone asked him, as De Matos bristled in silent rage. Many others chose to go after the federation for adopting the wrong approach, yet others blamed former coach Nicolai Adam for some ineffectual scouting. But in a paradox that would have made Schrodinger proud, all these parties are both innocent and guilty at the same time.
Was the AIFF’s approach flawed? Yes, but what else could they have done in three years with a bunch of players who had already missed out on a valuable chunk of technical education? Were ILeague and ISL clubs to blame? Absolutely, for only three players had the name of a club against theirs in the India team sheet, all three from little-known Minerva Punjab FC. But can anyone reject outright their argument that the environment of uncertainty and short-termism, that plagues the league structure in India, offered them little incentive for youth development? Could Nicolai Adam have done better with scouting? Maybe, but would he really have found players who were technically as good as the Americans and the Ghanaians?
IT HAS TO START EARLY
De Matos himself summed up Indian football’s predicament succinctly on the day they crashed out. “It’s important to build the culture,” he said. “India needs a football culture, with four, five and six-year-olds playing football. We were not playing Mauritius or Nepal. We were playing against Ghana, USA, and Colombia in a World Cup and I would like to see how India’s senior teams perform against the senior teams of these nations. I would have loved to play New Caledonia or Chile at this moment but people shouldn’t have expected this team to play Ghana and win. New Zealand lost 0-13 in 1997 and it is now at every World Cup.”
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both never got those many chances...
Namit got one game in WC may be one in mexico...
dont even know What Sunny did , with Dheeraj being hero he will never get chance..
dont know if they are good players or not but atleast they should have got some decent amount of matches (by representing NT)..
Had that money been spent in INDIA on youth leagues , we would have more benefits in both the short & long term
We have the potential to produce world class player if we serious about that. Success never come by short cut, you have to earn it by your hard work and dedication.
Player like Sunny Dhaliwal or Namit Deshpande will never add value to your team. This kind of players abundantly available in every corner of India. So adding these players in the world cup squad is nothing but shows the arrogancy of Abhishek Yadav. Gaffertape has already mentioned that.
Welcome to reality
And crumble is what they did, rather spectacularly in the second half against Ghana. The post-match press release that the All India Football Federation sent out called it a ‘game of two halves’. Yet the only difference between the two halves was that Ghana got what they deserved in the second — three goals. The Ghana coach would later admit that this was a deliberate tactic. He had seen past AIFF’s coat of paint — their wall might seem intimidating at first, might even withstand the first barrage of attacks, but there was no way it was going to resist over a longer period of time. For that, the foundations have to be strong. When everything was said and done, India were dead last. Games played — three, games lost — three, points — zero and a goal difference of minus eight. The only positive was the one in the goals scored section, Jeakson Singh’s futile, albeit historic effort against Colombia. North Korea were the next worst team, finishing level of points (or lack of them), but conceding fewer goals. Chile went into their final game with no points and the same goal difference as India.
A defeat would have sent them last. But they somehow held on for a draw against Mexico, making India officially the worst team of the 2017 U-17 World Cup. Worse than New Caledonia, who most people here hadn’t heard of until they came here to play the World Cup. The reaction to India’s maiden World Cup journey were immediately divided into two camps, one toeing the official, hyperbolic line of a ‘new dawn’ and the team ‘winning a billion hearts’. The other camp begged to differ, divided only by who they chose to pin the blame on. The same journalists who applauded Luis Norton de Matos into the press conference post the Colombia game chose to wag fingers at him after the Ghana one. “Three games, nine goals, what do you have to say?” someone asked him, as De Matos bristled in silent rage. Many others chose to go after the federation for adopting the wrong approach, yet others blamed former coach Nicolai Adam for some ineffectual scouting. But in a paradox that would have made Schrodinger proud, all these parties are both innocent and guilty at the same time.
Was the AIFF’s approach flawed? Yes, but what else could they have done in three years with a bunch of players who had already missed out on a valuable chunk of technical education? Were ILeague and ISL clubs to blame? Absolutely, for only three players had the name of a club against theirs in the India team sheet, all three from little-known Minerva Punjab FC. But can anyone reject outright their argument that the environment of uncertainty and short-termism, that plagues the league structure in India, offered them little incentive for youth development? Could Nicolai Adam have done better with scouting? Maybe, but would he really have found players who were technically as good as the Americans and the Ghanaians?
IT HAS TO START EARLY
De Matos himself summed up Indian football’s predicament succinctly on the day they crashed out. “It’s important to build the culture,” he said. “India needs a football culture, with four, five and six-year-olds playing football. We were not playing Mauritius or Nepal. We were playing against Ghana, USA, and Colombia in a World Cup and I would like to see how India’s senior teams perform against the senior teams of these nations. I would have loved to play New Caledonia or Chile at this moment but people shouldn’t have expected this team to play Ghana and win. New Zealand lost 0-13 in 1997 and it is now at every World Cup.”