2nd division debutants Minerva afc secured comfortable 2-0 victory against Kenkre in their first match.Is not Krishna Pandit eligible for u18 league, surprising he chose to go a step ahead. (worth pondering shoot for the moon might reach the stars)
Kenkre looks like a filler team from Maharashtra to fill the min. requirements of ileague 2. They would struggle to compete in CFL/GPL ..no media coverage for the team.....bloody shame.
We all know kenkre and pifa are not going for the promotion... PIFA is just an academy made look too big because of its fancy paid trips to european clubs while Kenre is local academy we can say which used to have decent structure where they organised grassroots tournaments though not year long training... so to expect anything good from them to produce at senior level is crazy... i even doubt if they try to keep hold of their best age group players
yes i know PIFA is poor man's Arsenal/man utd school ... where you pay ransom for your child to get training only for 2-3 weeks and all these kids get is 2-3 week preview on what is football..
The irony is that any team representing nagpur/ kolhapur/raipur/Bhubaneswar/ranchi/Coimbatore/khozikode etc would hv ensured spectator interest and spurred local football in these medium sized towns all of whom have stadia ready to host
But perhaps popularizing national football in towns starved of quality sports was never an agenda of these crooks
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But perhaps popularizing national football in towns starved of quality sports was never an agenda of these crooks