So at last we are ending up with this Dutch man Wim Koevermans for a 2 year contract.<br>what do you guys think about him?<br>managed various Netherland division 2 clubs.<br>managed Dutch senior youth team for 6 years.<br>currently in charge of Ireland U23 team.<br><br>He is more like youth coach.so can he get success from managing senior team?<br>fingers crossed lets wait.
Dutch youth team coach is more than good for our NT. In fact that is what we need. A guy who will give importance to youth, has an eye for talent and has the latest knowhow of football strategies and techniques.<div><br></div><div>These are the times when I feel AIFF is sincerely doing its best. There are people who would not leave a chance to tharsh AIFF. I saw this guy on EBRP facebook page saying "Why the hell East Bengal matches are scheduled this way that so many matches are left while others have played more". This one got some 6 likes before I stepped in and reminded them that it happens everywhere if you have international commitments". And the likes stalled.</div><div><br></div><div>Ok, that was offitopic. But think about it. We have the luxury of having coaches for U16 U19 U23 senior and Pailan Arrows! And then we have a high-profile Technical director!! Crooscheck with Maldives, its the same old Istvan Urbanyi running the affairs at Maldives camp for AFC U22 Championship.</div>
I agree wid Somesh..we dont need too high profile coach since we already hav Rob Baan..atleast we hv dis dutch coach who has experience wid u19 and dis way he will knw who to bring into da NT from U23 or U19..he will b gud for us i believe..kudos to AIFF for atleast thinking in da right direction M sure in da near future thy will take more such measure and hopefully we will b in da right track to bcum a better footballing nation!!<br>
<br><div><br></div><div>Ok, that was offitopic. But think about it. We have the luxury of having coaches for U16 U19 U23 senior and Pailan Arrows! And then we have a high-profile Technical director!! Crooscheck with Maldives, its the same old Istvan Urbanyi running the affairs at Maldives camp for AFC U22 Championship.</div>
<br><div><br></div><div>U14, u16 has Indian coach.</div><div><br></div><div>U19 mainly taken by Toal, but he works closely with u16 also i think</div><div><br></div><div>u22 and Arrows likely to have same coach</div><div><br></div><div>National coach will be different</div><div><br></div><div>and then we got TD....</div><div><br></div><div>yeah do have lot of them, but then I am sure we have bigger ambitions than Maldives... Again AIFF does need to be credited for this kind of initiative...yes we are not getting results, but i think in few more years we will be able to see the fruits (thats a hope of course)</div>
@Somesh is 100% spot-on! He is right. We look at the teams we mainly play (and will play with for a few more years until are level gets to a higher level of 130s) like Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, etc they dont have what we do... a good chance of getting a high profile senior coach. They also dont have respective professional coaches for u16, u19 and u23 levels of the game, we do. Yes the u14s and on occasion the u16s are coached by an Indian but those Indians are professional coaches at least.<div><br>As for Wim, I agree that this is what we need. Like Somesh said this man will give the younger players a chance and I hope at the Nehru Cup that we see a younger squad with maybe a few over 25 players like Sunil Chhetri.</div><div><br></div><div>As for his assistant I dont mind Savio staying, Wim needs an Indian to show him Indian football.</div><div><br></div><div>Overall, good job AIFF.</div>
assistant coach's job is not just to show indian football!!..we can use that post to develop a good Indian coach...do we have any such high profile indian coach?..one can learn a lot from the head coach..appointing savio as assistant for long term is just useless...he wont improve further. instead we shud go for potential guys like kashyap etc...
assistant coach's job is just not to show indian football!!..we can use that post to develop a good Indian coach...do we have any such high profile indian coach...one can learn a lot from the head coach..appointing savio as assistant for long term is just useless...he wont improve further. instead we shud go for potential guys like kashyap etc...
<br><div><br></div><div>why not that post be given to current caretaker of arrows name i guess is narayanan menon(not sure about first name)</div>
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<br><div><br></div><div>U14, u16 has Indian coach.</div><div><br></div><div>U19 mainly taken by Toal, but he works closely with u16 also i think</div><div><br></div><div>u22 and Arrows likely to have same coach</div><div><br></div><div>National coach will be different</div><div><br></div><div>and then we got TD....</div><div><br></div><div>yeah do have lot of them, but then I am sure we have bigger ambitions than Maldives... Again AIFF does need to be credited for this kind of initiative...yes we are not getting results, but i think in few more years we will be able to see the fruits (thats a hope of course)</div>
</div><div><span style="color: rgb(57, 57, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 28px; line-height: 30px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">NEW DELHI: Former Dutch international </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Wim-Koevermans"; style="color: rgb(51, 103, 151); text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Wim Koevermans</a><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> is all set to take over as the chief coach of the </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Indian-football"; style="color: rgb(51, 103, 151); text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Indian football</a><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> team for a two-year term, ending a more than a year's search for a full-fledged occupant for the top job.</span><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Following All India Football Federation's sacking of Englishman </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bob-Houghton"; style="color: rgb(51, 103, 151); text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Bob Houghton</a><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> early last year, Armando Colaco and Savio Medeira -- whose contract expires on May 31 -- were given short stints, but they failed to yield much success.</span><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Another Dutchman Rob Baan, who was appointed Technical Director in October last year, was given the responsibility to search for the chief coach and he has handpicked compatriot Koevermans for the job</span><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/AIFF"; style="color: rgb(51, 103, 151); text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">AIFF</a><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> vice-president A R Khaleel said that Koevermans' appointment will be approved by the Executive Committee early next month and the Dutchman will take charge soon after that.</span><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"The appointment of Koevermans is more or less certain now. The president ( </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Praful-Patel"; style="color: rgb(51, 103, 151); text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Praful Patel</a><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">) has given the go-ahead and he (Koevermans) has accepted the terms and conditions of the contract. The Executive Committee is meeting on June 7 or 8 and it will give the final approval," he said.</span><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"Initially, he will be given a two-year contract and if the performance of the national team under him is satisfactory his contract will be extended," he added.</span><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">If appointed, Koevermans' first job at the helm will be the </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nehru-Cup"; style="color: rgb(51, 103, 151); text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Nehru Cup</a><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> expected to be held in August and he will have an enormous task of rebuilding a national team which is in a transition phase after the exit of some stalwarts and whose </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/FIFA"; style="color: rgb(51, 103, 151); text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">FIFA</a><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> rankings have been dipping for some time.</span><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">51-year-old Koevermans, who was in the Netherlands 1988 Euro Championships-winning squad but had not played in the tournament, possesses an impressive credential though he played only one international match.</span><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">As the Dutch youth team coach between 2002 and 2008, he oversaw the development of some of the superstars like Wesley Sneijder, Robin van Persie and Dirk Kuyt.</span><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">He is currently the International High Performance Director of the Football Association of Ireland as well as the Irish under-21 team coach. He turned to coaching almost immediately after his retirement as a professional in 1990, and went on to coach Dutch club sides FC Groningen, RBC Roosendaal, NEC Nijmegen and MVV Maastricht between 1990 and 2000.</span><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Meanwhile, another Dutchman Raymond Libregts has declined to become coach of the under-22 national squad as well as that of AIFF developmental side Pailan Arrows.</span>
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<br><div><br></div><div>why not that post be given to current caretaker of arrows name i guess is narayanan menon(not sure about first name)</div>