Full list of things wrong with I-League. If they fix this I-league will be much better
1. Clubs are run horribly. No professionalism (yes, I'm looking at you, Mohun Bagan), social media handles are a joke, the clubs can't even announce signings properly and don't even announce replacement players
2. Quality of play. This season it's slightly better, and many clubs play better than ATK, but still teams like Minerva are boring af to watch. Chennai City is entertaining but other temas quality is bad
3. Production quality. A reason why so many people watch ISL and not I-League is because of production quality. No HD brodcast, don't even bother to cover empty stands, etc. which makes it unpleasant to watch
4. Way too much corruption, players forced to stay in low class hotels, financial issues, no revenue, etc.
Until they fix all of this, ISL will be better and 99% of the people will agree with me. Only this sub hates ISL for some reason and calling the fans plastic. In that case there are only 1% true fans and 99% plastic fans. Anyway we all have to start somewhere. Also clubs should stop signing random African players and actually sign players with a proper resume to increase quality of the league as it is of substandard quality
Dude, all things you listed that is wrong with I-League is due to FSDL. Except the professionalism, FSDL has made sure that I-League dies. They are the reason I-League gets poor broadcast. They are the reason there is no revenue stream for the club's. With no money how can you expect the club's to invest in infrastructure or improve their club's. It's the dedication of these clubs that they continue to run even with such corrupt AIFF and FSDL.
Ok, even when I-league was brodcasted on TEN Sports, what happened? No revenue, poor production, no viewership,poor quality. And everything stems from professionalism. If you are professional, you will attract investors but the matter of fact is that all IL clubs are run horribly and is seen as a joke. I mean Ranjit Balaj the owner is allowed on the touchline! What kind of a joke is that? Let them learn to be professional first. Look at the Gokulam OFFICIAL twitter account making fun of Manjapadda. Is that how thy are supposed to be run?
only point 1 and 4 have merit and even ISL clubs face financial issues / no revenue
quality of play is better many times , which has many reasons ( keep games regularly at 7pm you will see better results) , I League matches has high tempo and players even if they are random they play as if its matter of life and death (this doesnt happen in ISL not for all teams)
Production quality: what can club do in this? literally same company produces matches for both leagues.
and about random Africans, even ISL signs random Europeans as compare to them Africans have good work ethic and they are less moody (both leagues should stop signing random foreigners though)
Dude how long have you been following Indian Football? FSDL has been handling I-League since 2010, same time I-League started to go downhill. Production was far better when Zee used to own the League.
half of DDFC line up is random , cyril Kali, Nikola Krčmarević also few CFC players like orlandi /salom had average track record in recent years..
in fact KBFC has one random african
Each year this is same story , ISL cant bring top quality signings many times (thats understandable) but not many clubs has decent eye for players or scout
By random Africans I mean people who are basically plucked from the street and have been playing in Uganda 3rd division or something i.e completely unknown. All foreigners in ISL are known somewhat at least
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1. Clubs are run horribly. No professionalism (yes, I'm looking at you, Mohun Bagan), social media handles are a joke, the clubs can't even announce signings properly and don't even announce replacement players
2. Quality of play. This season it's slightly better, and many clubs play better than ATK, but still teams like Minerva are boring af to watch. Chennai City is entertaining but other temas quality is bad
3. Production quality. A reason why so many people watch ISL and not I-League is because of production quality. No HD brodcast, don't even bother to cover empty stands, etc. which makes it unpleasant to watch
4. Way too much corruption, players forced to stay in low class hotels, financial issues, no revenue, etc.
quality of play is better many times , which has many reasons ( keep games regularly at 7pm you will see better results) , I League matches has high tempo and players even if they are random they play as if its matter of life and death (this doesnt happen in ISL not for all teams)
Production quality: what can club do in this? literally same company produces matches for both leagues.
and about random Africans, even ISL signs random Europeans as compare to them Africans have good work ethic and they are less moody (both leagues should stop signing random foreigners though)
in fact KBFC has one random african
Each year this is same story , ISL cant bring top quality signings many times (thats understandable) but not many clubs has decent eye for players or scout