Yeah but this season team is full of rejects with no potential to improve further,Also U-19 players aren't getting chance like the last batch did.
Believe me we have some good talent in Prabir Das,Passi and few U-19 players who are given very less playing time.
Right that is the precise point, when you have a team free from relegation, then why not play a time based on talent even though they are young, this will help them to grow mentally and have match experience for future. This team is for future not of present. Give the young U -19 players playing time now for help their growth.
i still wonder why is aiff not implementing the rule to play minimum of 2 u-21 players in their line up for a minimum of say 60 mins in each i-league match,if they are able to get this rule implemented then i dont see any reason why we need this arrows as these club would get the best u-21 some playing time and i am sure these players would gain much playing with any current national team player than what they get with the current arrows team
i still wonder why is aiff not implementing the rule to play minimum of 2 u-21 players in their line up for a minimum of say 60 mins in each i-league match,if they are able to get this rule implemented then i dont see any reason why we need this arrows as these club would get the best u-21 some playing time and i am sure these players would gain much playing with any current national team player than what they get with the current arrows team
If you look at the line-ups of all the games lately you would see that around 10 clubs in I-League do that constantly (not all the time but most of the time) Problem is that these youngsters are Defenders or goalkeepers. We need more forwards and I dont think a rule about that would help. The teams are already screaming for more independence (even though that would do more damage than good) and this would make it worse.
I think we just need a better youth league. Call it the Junior I-League and have it be at to levels. U19 and U16.
Have the U19 league be in the same format as I-League, in which you have a single table but this season would be 18 games, not 26. The 18 games your team play will be based on location. So say you are Pune FC Academy (U19). You would have 14 of your 18 games against teams in Goa, Kerala, and Maharashtra because those areas are more closer. The other 4 games they play will be against 2 teams from Kolkata and 2 teams from NE. (NOTE: This is based on what the league could look like next year with HAL and Chirag relegated and USFC and RWFC promoted) Also all these games should be on Mondays. So your senior team will play on either Saturday or Sunday and then the youth will play that Monday. That way the senior coach can go and watch all the youth games.
The U19 teams will play the same team the seniors play (u19 level ones) as well. (Example: If Dempo SC Seniors play against Mumbai FC Seniors on a Saturday or Sunday then that very next Monday the Dempo U19 and Mumbai U19 play each other in the same state. Basically the u19 team will always travel with the seniors except for when the u19s dont have a game. Also all these games should be played on practice turfs of the I-League teams. So East Bengal U19 will have home games at the EB Ground or Pune FC Academy will play there home games at Pune FC Training ground.
Next year the, if the predictions go right, we should have 3 NE teams, 4 WB teams, 4 Goa teams, 3 Maha teams.
So for the u16 league you will have 4 group tables and each group will play at a neutral venue (In order to lower costs of travel drastically because I doubt most teams would want to pay to take an u16 team back and fourth to college grounds (which is where the u16 games will take place). Each group will play 6 games. The NE group will play each other 3 times. The Goa group will play each other 2 times. The WB will be the same as Goa, 2 times. Maha is the same as NE. After each team plays 6 games the top club from each team get to join the Final Championship Round (FCR) and the other 10 teams will play in a 10-team single table group so every team plays after the group stage. Not just the FCR teams.
The Final Round Teams (4 teams) will play 12 games (play each other 4 times) so at the end these 4 teams have 18 games through the season. Then in the 10-team Normal Group they play 9 games (once against each other) so these 10 teams would have 15 games through the season. That is basically it. And this is better than what we have now where the most u19 games you play are 6 and the lowest is 2!!! How can young players grow through 2 games. This can also make Colim Toals job easier as he would now have 2 good league systems (1 for u19 and for u17) in place and thus making selection easier for him instead of having to go the various states to search talent.
Looks like Sujit Chakravarty will come in as caretaker for Pailan Arrows for the rest of the season according to the hard tackle. Lets hope he can bring the best out of the good players
All India Football Federation and IMG-Reliance met the I-League Club representatives on Tuesday (February 21) to hear out what the problems the clubs were facing and how to make the I-league more viable and vibrant from a commercial standpoint.
It was a very fruitful and constructive meeting where it was agreed that all the stakeholders must work jointly and in a concerted manner to help improve the profile and visibility of the I-League.
The Clubs were prepared to invest in Youth Development and U-17 and U-19 Leagues along with AIFF and IMG-R to ensure the overall development of Indian Football in the long term.
It was also agreed that AIFF and IMG-R would come up with a plan by Monday (February 27) about the various timelines regarding concepts to revamp the structure and profile of the I-League based on which there will be further interactions with the Clubs.
All India Football Federation and IMG-Reliance met the I-League Club representatives on Tuesday (February 21) to hear out what the problems the clubs were facing and how to make the I-league more viable and vibrant from a commercial standpoint.
It was a very fruitful and constructive meeting where it was agreed that all the stakeholders must work jointly and in a concerted manner to help improve the profile and visibility of the I-League.
The Clubs were prepared to invest in Youth Development and U-17 and U-19 Leagues along with AIFF and IMG-R to ensure the overall development of Indian Football in the long term.
It was also agreed that AIFF and IMG-R would come up with a plan by Monday (February 27) about the various timelines regarding concepts to revamp the structure and profile of the I-League based on which there will be further interactions with the Clubs.
Jamshid Nassiri believes the I-League has done much more harm than good to Indian football.
“If you look at the quality of football in this country before the introduction of the I-League, or the NFL as it was earlier called, you would see it was much better in those days,” said Nassiri, during an interview with The Hindu here the other day; the former Iranian striker — and one of the earliest international stars in Indian domestic football — was in the city to select players for the Tata Tea Inter Milan Soccer Star programme.
“Back in my days, when there was no I-League, there used to be so many annual football tournaments, in which all the top clubs competed. The I-League killed those tournaments,” he said. “And there used to be huge crowds for those events, especially in Kerala.”
LOVED PLAYING IN KERALA
He has many fond memories about playing in Kerala. “I loved playing in Kerala, especially here in Kozhikode, which used to host the Sait Nagjee tournament,” he said. “And every time I played here, in the 1980's, my team — be it East Bengal or Mohammedan Sporting — ended up winning. And I scored some nice goals too. When I visit Kozhikode, people still come up to me and tell me about how they enjoyed seeing me score those goals.”
Nassiri feels the All India Football Federation should revive those tournaments soon, if it wants to see Indian football making any progress.
“What is the point of playing football matches before empty stands?” he said. “And the I-League clubs should be persuaded to have junior sides. Even more importantly, the AIFF should do something about catching footballers young.”
Lack of training
He said the lack of training for young footballers is the main reason why India remains at the bottom of world ranking. “You cannot expect much from teaching boys from the age of 15,” he said. “And there have to be more football academies in India; I am impressed with the work that the Chandigarh Football Academy is doing. They are training footballers under the age of 10. Why can't there be such academies in States like Kerala, Goa and Bengal?”
He said he was hopeful about football in Bengal as the current Government seemed keen to start academies for children.
“The officials have had discussions with me too, and I would be delighted to cooperate with them,” he said. “I would like to contribute in whatever way I could for the development of Indian football. I believe there is talent in this country of one billion people. If we could identify those talents and train them properly, India could still be a force to reckon with in international football.”
According to some sources Air India is all but out of I-League from next season as are not ready to comply with the AFC criteria.With minimal interest being shown by HAL I think they could head the same way.
According to some sources Air India is all but out of I-League from next season as are not ready to comply with the AFC criteria.With minimal interest being shown by HAL I think they could head the same way.
Now lets see 3 teams promoted to I-League... United Sikkim FC, Royal Wahingdoh FC, Aizawl FC!!! All 3 teams would replace Chirag United, HAL, and Air India. Not only will it be 3 corporate teams out but 3 great named clubs in who actually care for there city/state. Also all 3 new clubs can get a crowd over 20,000 regularly unlike the other 3. This is great news!!!
Yeah but this season team is full of rejects with no potential to improve further,Also U-19 players aren't getting chance like the last batch did.
Believe me we have some good talent in Prabir Das,Passi and few U-19 players who are given very less playing time.
Right that is the precise point, when you have a team free from relegation, then why not play a time based on talent even though they are young, this will help them to grow mentally and have match experience for future. This team is for future not of present. Give the young U -19 players playing time now for help their growth.
Put a young coach like the Mumbai FC or Lajong SC coach in charge of Arrows , this will help the younger players.
Both players and coaches will have desire & hunger to succeed and their will be no regional (Punjabi) bias that was so evident under Sukhvinder. He basically took the whole JCT academy team and played them each game.
Also style is important , when u can't get relegate , why play boring football, lose 3-2 every week and people will be happier.
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Right that is the precise point, when you have a team free from relegation, then why not play a time based on talent even though they are young, this will help them to grow mentally and have match experience for future. This team is for future not of present. Give the young U -19 players playing time now for help their growth.
If you look at the line-ups of all the games lately you would see that around 10 clubs in I-League do that constantly (not all the time but most of the time) Problem is that these youngsters are Defenders or goalkeepers. We need more forwards and I dont think a rule about that would help. The teams are already screaming for more independence (even though that would do more damage than good) and this would make it worse.
I think we just need a better youth league. Call it the Junior I-League and have it be at to levels. U19 and U16.
Have the U19 league be in the same format as I-League, in which you have a single table but this season would be 18 games, not 26. The 18 games your team play will be based on location. So say you are Pune FC Academy (U19). You would have 14 of your 18 games against teams in Goa, Kerala, and Maharashtra because those areas are more closer. The other 4 games they play will be against 2 teams from Kolkata and 2 teams from NE. (NOTE: This is based on what the league could look like next year with HAL and Chirag relegated and USFC and RWFC promoted) Also all these games should be on Mondays. So your senior team will play on either Saturday or Sunday and then the youth will play that Monday. That way the senior coach can go and watch all the youth games.
The U19 teams will play the same team the seniors play (u19 level ones) as well. (Example: If Dempo SC Seniors play against Mumbai FC Seniors on a Saturday or Sunday then that very next Monday the Dempo U19 and Mumbai U19 play each other in the same state. Basically the u19 team will always travel with the seniors except for when the u19s dont have a game. Also all these games should be played on practice turfs of the I-League teams. So East Bengal U19 will have home games at the EB Ground or Pune FC Academy will play there home games at Pune FC Training ground.
The Under-16 league will be different though. The U16 format will be the same as the 2011 I-League U19 format. (See here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_I-League_U19"; onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_I-League_U19</a><!-- m -->)
Next year the, if the predictions go right, we should have 3 NE teams, 4 WB teams, 4 Goa teams, 3 Maha teams.
So for the u16 league you will have 4 group tables and each group will play at a neutral venue (In order to lower costs of travel drastically because I doubt most teams would want to pay to take an u16 team back and fourth to college grounds (which is where the u16 games will take place). Each group will play 6 games. The NE group will play each other 3 times. The Goa group will play each other 2 times. The WB will be the same as Goa, 2 times. Maha is the same as NE. After each team plays 6 games the top club from each team get to join the Final Championship Round (FCR) and the other 10 teams will play in a 10-team single table group so every team plays after the group stage. Not just the FCR teams.
The Final Round Teams (4 teams) will play 12 games (play each other 4 times) so at the end these 4 teams have 18 games through the season. Then in the 10-team Normal Group they play 9 games (once against each other) so these 10 teams would have 15 games through the season. That is basically it. And this is better than what we have now where the most u19 games you play are 6 and the lowest is 2!!! How can young players grow through 2 games. This can also make Colim Toals job easier as he would now have 2 good league systems (1 for u19 and for u17) in place and thus making selection easier for him instead of having to go the various states to search talent.
All India Football Federation and IMG-Reliance met the I-League Club representatives on Tuesday (February 21) to hear out what the problems the clubs were facing and how to make the I-league more viable and vibrant from a commercial standpoint.
It was a very fruitful and constructive meeting where it was agreed that all the stakeholders must work jointly and in a concerted manner to help improve the profile and visibility of the I-League.
The Clubs were prepared to invest in Youth Development and U-17 and U-19 Leagues along with AIFF and IMG-R to ensure the overall development of Indian Football in the long term.
It was also agreed that AIFF and IMG-R would come up with a plan by Monday (February 27) about the various timelines regarding concepts to revamp the structure and profile of the I-League based on which there will be further interactions with the Clubs.
Source :- AIFF
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I-League has done more harm than good: Nassiri
Jamshid Nassiri believes the I-League has done much more harm than good to Indian football.
“If you look at the quality of football in this country before the introduction of the I-League, or the NFL as it was earlier called, you would see it was much better in those days,” said Nassiri, during an interview with The Hindu here the other day; the former Iranian striker — and one of the earliest international stars in Indian domestic football — was in the city to select players for the Tata Tea Inter Milan Soccer Star programme.
“Back in my days, when there was no I-League, there used to be so many annual football tournaments, in which all the top clubs competed. The I-League killed those tournaments,” he said. “And there used to be huge crowds for those events, especially in Kerala.”
LOVED PLAYING IN KERALA
He has many fond memories about playing in Kerala. “I loved playing in Kerala, especially here in Kozhikode, which used to host the Sait Nagjee tournament,” he said. “And every time I played here, in the 1980's, my team — be it East Bengal or Mohammedan Sporting — ended up winning. And I scored some nice goals too. When I visit Kozhikode, people still come up to me and tell me about how they enjoyed seeing me score those goals.”
Nassiri feels the All India Football Federation should revive those tournaments soon, if it wants to see Indian football making any progress.
“What is the point of playing football matches before empty stands?” he said. “And the I-League clubs should be persuaded to have junior sides. Even more importantly, the AIFF should do something about catching footballers young.”
Lack of training
He said the lack of training for young footballers is the main reason why India remains at the bottom of world ranking. “You cannot expect much from teaching boys from the age of 15,” he said. “And there have to be more football academies in India; I am impressed with the work that the Chandigarh Football Academy is doing. They are training footballers under the age of 10. Why can't there be such academies in States like Kerala, Goa and Bengal?”
He said he was hopeful about football in Bengal as the current Government seemed keen to start academies for children.
“The officials have had discussions with me too, and I would be delighted to cooperate with them,” he said. “I would like to contribute in whatever way I could for the development of Indian football. I believe there is talent in this country of one billion people. If we could identify those talents and train them properly, India could still be a force to reckon with in international football.”
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Now lets see 3 teams promoted to I-League... United Sikkim FC, Royal Wahingdoh FC, Aizawl FC!!! All 3 teams would replace Chirag United, HAL, and Air India. Not only will it be 3 corporate teams out but 3 great named clubs in who actually care for there city/state. Also all 3 new clubs can get a crowd over 20,000 regularly unlike the other 3. This is great news!!!
Put a young coach like the Mumbai FC or Lajong SC coach in charge of Arrows , this will help the younger players.
Both players and coaches will have desire & hunger to succeed and their will be no regional (Punjabi) bias that was so evident under Sukhvinder. He basically took the whole JCT academy team and played them each game.
Also style is important , when u can't get relegate , why play boring football, lose 3-2 every week and people will be happier.