Even Indian origin players I am cut on. I am 100% no non-Indians but 50/50 on Indian-origin.<div><br></div><div>As an American who has seen his national team make the World Cup through using many German-born players or Mexican developed players I am reluctant to fully celebrate the achievement.</div><div><br></div><div>I am happy we made it but I would have rather we used players created through our system than through Germany's. I feel like we are taking a shortcut here. Now what would it say about India? Sure, we can add all these players like Harmeet Singh, Michael Chopra, Odafa etc but that would just give us a fake view of where Indian football is. We would not be forced to realize that we are in reality crap and that we need to develop.</div><div><br></div><div>I would rather lose to Afghanistan 2-0 all day using our players (minus Arata) than beat them 5-0 with Chopra scoring a hat-trick, Odafa scoring a brace and Harmeet providing the assists. It makes us think and look at where we are and know that we need to improve. And, if we do think and try to improve, then in the long run it will pay off.</div>
Its a twofold thing.. u gotta keep developing at home and get them to compete.. winning and having high profile players bring marketing ops and that could provide much needed money for development.
However i do understand ur point but as usa continues to improve at home..their NT makes headlines n good wins against major sides add ls to that.
Look at iran.. one of the best in asia..always developing players at home who go play abroad but still open to overseas..even gave passport to a nigerian few years ago however i guess he wasnt good enough to earn a place.
<br><br>Well no. Just living 5 years in India do not give any foreigner right to Indian passport. Any foreigner can easily live and work in India entire life but getting passport is difficult unless they have Indian origin or spouse. <br>I have seen two sportsperson who got Indian passport - Robin Singh(cricketer) who gave away his trinidad and tobago passport but his parents and wife were from India. and Izumi Arata whose father was Indian and he gave away his Japan passport.<br>Not sure about Chima Okerie but I heard his wife is Indian.<br> :P
I don't really believe the marketing from these guys will actually help us though. How much more marketable will Odafa become if I go on wikipedia and I change the flag next to his name on the Mohun Bagan page from a Nigerian one to an Indian one. Same with Harmeet and Chopra. They would probably make headlines and do well with us but we will still be where we are. We would still need good homegrown guys but we are far away from creating them.
<em>Even Indian origin players I am cut on. I am 100% no non-Indians but 50/50 on Indian-origin.</em><div><br></div><div><em>As an American who has seen his national team make the World Cup through using many German-born players or Mexican developed players I am reluctant to fully celebrate the achievement.</em></div><div><em><br></em></div><div><em>I am happy we made it but I would have rather we used players created through our system than through Germany's. I feel like we are taking a shortcut here. Now what would it say about India? Sure, we can add all these playe</em><em>rs like Harmeet Singh, Michael Chopra, Odafa etc but that would just give us a fake view of where Indian football is. We would not be forced to realize that we are in reality crap and that we need to develop.</em></div><div><em><br></em></div><div><em>I would rather lose to Afghanistan 2-0 all day using our players (minus Arata) than beat them 5-0 with Chopra scoring a hat-trick, Odafa scoring a brace and Harmeet providing the assists. It makes us think and look at where we are and know that we need to improve. And, if we do think and try to improve, then in the long run it will pay off.</em></div><div><em></em> </div><div><em></em> </div><div>EK Dum sahi kaha boss..agree with you. We need home grown players!</div>
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However i do understand ur point but as usa continues to improve at home..their NT makes headlines n good wins against major sides add ls to that.
Look at iran.. one of the best in asia..always developing players at home who go play abroad but still open to overseas..even gave passport to a nigerian few years ago however i guess he wasnt good enough to earn a place.
<br><br>Well no. Just living 5 years in India do not give any foreigner right to Indian passport. Any foreigner can easily live and work in India entire life but getting passport is difficult unless they have Indian origin or spouse. <br>I have seen two sportsperson who got Indian passport - Robin Singh(cricketer) who gave away his trinidad and tobago passport but his parents and wife were from India. and Izumi Arata whose father was Indian and he gave away his Japan passport.<br>Not sure about Chima Okerie but I heard his wife is Indian.<br> :P