The interesting part is that last group is North Korea, Japan & Cambodia. What if Korea withdraw? Just 2 in the group. How will 2nd placed teams be classified.
U23 team has been the worst because they have never been together. Even now, everyone is in different ISL clubs (With Stimac as coach, I don't expect any IL players) and even a month long camp will not be enough. U19 & U16 (U20 & U17 now) stay together for a large part of the year.
With Dheeraj , Apuia , suresh , akash mishra being part of national squad and fringe players narender , sumit , rahul kp,jeakson and amarjit . I am sure we can put up a decent line up ,only downside is we don't have attackers who play for their clubs and impressed . Last time out in qualifiers we failed to score and finished last , repeat of that performance again will hurt most because these are the players that have most exposure with u17 world cup and european trips.
If AIFF can try Khalid Jamil as coach for this qualifiers and if he is successful we can say good bye to stimac . If Stimac is give charge he wil make sure we finish last.
Well Said. Deccan name was popular in colonial times 1930s 1940s
Deccan Chronicle Newspaper, Deccan Express / Deccan Queen Express, Deccan Club, Gymkhana etc. across many cities of present day Telangana, Andhra maharashtra Karnataka
But nowadays nobody identifies with Deccan.
Even the new firms like Deccan Airways or Deccan Chargers IPL team flopped.
Name of club should be something which people can identify with. Something which Telangana / Andhra region people and especially younger generation could connect with.
All 3 opponents dont have more than 1-2 players in their current NT who are u-23 whereas we have plenty. Hopefully this time we can have Rahul KP, Vikram Pratap etc giving a good account of themselves
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U23 team has been the worst because they have never been together. Even now, everyone is in different ISL clubs (With Stimac as coach, I don't expect any IL players) and even a month long camp will not be enough. U19 & U16 (U20 & U17 now) stay together for a large part of the year.
Last time out in qualifiers we failed to score and finished last , repeat of that performance again will hurt most because these are the players that have most exposure with u17 world cup and european trips.