If we qualify he must go, we can get a better coach. If we dont, then he must go, we get an Indian coach while our youth team players come up the ranks.
Constantine won matches in SAFF Cup. Also the First Round victory 2-0 over Nepal brought us into Second Round of WCQ. Under Koevarmans, we would not have even achieved this.
Koverman and AIFF didnt take SAFF seriously. The aim was to change the football philosophy and to qualify for the Asian cup via the challenge cup. Both failed miserably but this squad in the name of "freshness" has disrupted the entire foundation.
You under SC dont have any style of play. Pace is not used properly. Tackling is absolute shocking and no tactical nuance at all. I mean bringing fresh players is good but you have to blood them into a system before putting them in the pitch. Rather you put them raw and let them fend for themselves.
We won the Nehru Cup with Wim and made the final of the SAFF Cup. We did fail to qualify for the AFC Challenge Cup but that was from a 1-0 loss to the qualification hosts, Myanmar.
Still feel we played better under Wim than Constantine.
Yes true.. But i wouldnt really say we played well. It was a great philosophy but with a wrong set of players.
You had favouritism too thanks to Mr. Savio you had your usual francis...Lenny's..alwyn's irrespective of the fact they had poor domestic football performances.
Added to that Wim had little time spent in India to look at fresh players.
But one thing you had to give it to him...Wim had better tactical knowlege and more of a potential good coach look than SC had, If only he had taken things more seriously we could have been better.
Wim gave us a string of non stop poor results. We lost to Singapore, Palestine twice, Tajikistan in Friendlies. We lost to Myanmar in AFC Challenge Qualifiers. SAFF Cup even though we reached Finals was plagued by poor results. Draw with Bangladesh and Loss to Nepal and Afghanistan in SAFF Cup. Then we had Draw with Bangladesh and loss to Pakistan with U-23 team at Bangalore. that time it looked like we will be unable to even face SAFF countries. Atleast Constantine managed 2-0 victory against Nepal to bring us to Second Round and also won SAFF Cup. Slight improvement in the Results.
Nah, from what I remember on here, the idea while Wim was here was that we could only beat SAFF team and that maybe we should send some sort of youth/future squad to the SAFF Cup or something... then Stephen comes in and we feel we can't even beat Bhutan.
Possible. Our expectations were high at the starting of Rob Bann and Wim days. There was a document "Lakshya 2022". AIFF wanted to play Tiki-Taka style which is pleasing to eyes. We used to make fun of Long Ball British Style. Place in AFC Asia Cup was taken for granted and we wanted to send only juniors to SAFF Cup.
And then Pp asked the most important question" show me my money"....anyways lakshya 2022 was the correct way forward...rob baan is the sort of person who should be the TD for India...but we have scot odonell which says a lot about the NT as a priority within Aiff
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Koverman and AIFF didnt take SAFF seriously. The aim was to change the football philosophy and to qualify for the Asian cup via the challenge cup. Both failed miserably but this squad in the name of "freshness" has disrupted the entire foundation.
You under SC dont have any style of play. Pace is not used properly. Tackling is absolute shocking and no tactical nuance at all.
I mean bringing fresh players is good but you have to blood them into a system before putting them in the pitch. Rather you put them raw and let them fend for themselves.
No wonder we are a laughing stock.
Still feel we played better under Wim than Constantine.
You had favouritism too thanks to Mr. Savio you had your usual francis...Lenny's..alwyn's irrespective of the fact they had poor domestic football performances.
Added to that Wim had little time spent in India to look at fresh players.
But one thing you had to give it to him...Wim had better tactical knowlege and more of a potential good coach look than SC had, If only he had taken things more seriously we could have been better.
Atleast Constantine managed 2-0 victory against Nepal to bring us to Second Round and also won SAFF Cup. Slight improvement in the Results.