Head Coach Colm Joseph Toal’s concern lies elsewhere. The agonising wait for a training ground and a meeting room seems to find no end. The manner in which training schedules have being handled, pains him.
“In a footballing country as Iran, it’s hard to buy the logic that there aren’t any training grounds,” he maintains. “We landed here a day early but have lost out on the advantage as we haven’t been granted a field to train as yet,” a helpless Toal quips, as he shrugs his shoulders.
Surprisingly enough, other teams in the Group have the luxury of training while the Indians have stayed confined indoors. And when on Friday, a training ground was at last scheduled for the U-19 boys; it turned out to a handball pitch! Embarrassingly enough, a rival team from the Group were training on a full-size football pitch barely 50 metres away!
Head Coach Colm Joseph Toal’s concern lies elsewhere. The agonising wait for a training ground and a meeting room seems to find no end. The manner in which training schedules have being handled, pains him.
“In a footballing country as Iran, it’s hard to buy the logic that there aren’t any training grounds,” he maintains. “We landed here a day early but have lost out on the advantage as we haven’t been granted a field to train as yet,” a helpless Toal quips, as he shrugs his shoulders.
Surprisingly enough, other teams in the Group have the luxury of training while the Indians have stayed confined indoors. And when on Friday, a training ground was at last scheduled for the U-19 boys; it turned out to a handball pitch! Embarrassingly enough, a rival team from the Group were training on a full-size football pitch barely 50 metres away!
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btw wth is the iran federations disrespecting us through their hospitality?
What happened ???