The Indian Football team is all set to take part in the 17th edition of 2019 AFC Asian Cup in UAE. The Blue Tigers will face Thailand in their first game on January 6th in Abu Dhabi. We take a look at India’s performance in the previous editions of the prestigious tournament.
The Blue Tigers have took part in the Asian Cup three times and their best result was finishing second in 1964 AFC Asian Cup in Israel.
AFC Asian Cup 2019: Meet the brand new trophy that the champions of Asia will take home
For the past 62 years, ever since the inception of the AFC Asian Cup, the tournament has stuck to one trophy design throughout. It was time for a change.
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, who was on hand to unveil the trophy at the Asian Cup 2019 Final Draw held at Burj Khalifa in May this year, remarked that the new design was representative of an exciting future for the competition.
He said, “since 1956 we have had the same trophy and in keeping with the new and exciting future of the competition, the AFC decided to commission a new trophy, one that captures the excitement and drama of the tournament ahead.”
The trophy redesign, however, was hardly a simple process and it took the best minds and hands at Thomas Lyte – the English company who are also the makers of the FA Cup – to bring it to life.
The trophy stands at an impressive 72 centimeters in height and 42 centimeters wide, and is handcrafted from 15 kilograms of silver bullion. The outer design of the trophy is modeled after a lotus flower with 5 petals to represent the 5 different regions of the AFC – the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF), the Central Asian Football Association (CAFA), the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF), the East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) and the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF).
The reason for choosing the lotus as the inspiration for the design also had to do with how the flower is a symbol of peace and unity across many regions in Asia.
The effort that went into handcrafting the trophy was stupendous to say the least, with over 230 hours dedicated to just hammering the intricacies into the trophy.
Overall, it took 400 hours to give the trophy into its final form – complete with a detachable plinth on which each winner dating back to 1956, the year the tournament begun, has been engraved.
Here is a pictorial comparison of the old AFC Asian Cup trophy and the new:
Here they are saying that AIFF will get 8-10 crore from this company. If they cant even deliver kit in time, who thinks that they will ever give money.
Nike had Class and was a proper Brand. 656(*%$# is what we see now
nike had class? what class? bc selling plain blue replica at 4.6k or lazily picking already used template to design below par design (latest jersey)? even on 15th august if they had created some patriotic design in tri colors and sold it at 2.5k they would sell at least 2-3k pieces , lets go simple.. all nike had to do was create fan arts of chhetri or jhingan and sell t shirt or make plain polos with minimal graphic and AIFF logo even that would have demand
no, apparently all they were interested in direct sale of jersey to NT and well its easy money , you do the math taklu always call 30 players for camp so jersey,training kit, hoodies, polo, bags for every player, its good business opportunity
Friendlies especially for bigger teams are a chance to try out different players and formation unlike Stephan who uses them to park bus and enhance his reputation pretty sure likes of Iran,Japan etc would have tried different formations and used all 6 subs
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The Indian Football team is all set to take part in the 17th edition of 2019 AFC Asian Cup in UAE. The Blue Tigers will face Thailand in their first game on January 6th in Abu Dhabi. We take a look at India’s performance in the previous editions of the prestigious tournament.
The Blue Tigers have took part in the Asian Cup three times and their best result was finishing second in 1964 AFC Asian Cup in Israel.
http://www.indianfootballnetwork.com/blog/2018/12/24/a-look-back-at-indias-history-in-afc-asian-cup/
AFC Asian Cup 2019: Meet the brand new trophy that the champions of Asia will take home
For the past 62 years, ever since the inception of the AFC Asian Cup, the tournament has stuck to one trophy design throughout. It was time for a change.
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, who was on hand to unveil the trophy at the Asian Cup 2019 Final Draw held at Burj Khalifa in May this year, remarked that the new design was representative of an exciting future for the competition.
He said, “since 1956 we have had the same trophy and in keeping with the new and exciting future of the competition, the AFC decided to commission a new trophy, one that captures the excitement and drama of the tournament ahead.”
The trophy redesign, however, was hardly a simple process and it took the best minds and hands at Thomas Lyte – the English company who are also the makers of the FA Cup – to bring it to life.
The trophy stands at an impressive 72 centimeters in height and 42 centimeters wide, and is handcrafted from 15 kilograms of silver bullion. The outer design of the trophy is modeled after a lotus flower with 5 petals to represent the 5 different regions of the AFC – the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF), the Central Asian Football Association (CAFA), the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF), the East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) and the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF).
The reason for choosing the lotus as the inspiration for the design also had to do with how the flower is a symbol of peace and unity across many regions in Asia.
The effort that went into handcrafting the trophy was stupendous to say the least, with over 230 hours dedicated to just hammering the intricacies into the trophy.
Overall, it took 400 hours to give the trophy into its final form – complete with a detachable plinth on which each winner dating back to 1956, the year the tournament begun, has been engraved.
Here is a pictorial comparison of the old AFC Asian Cup trophy and the new:
23rd December
Qatar 2:0 Jordan
24th December
Iraq 2 : 1 China
Palestine 1 : 1 Iran
25th December
Vietnam 1 : 1 North Korea
Afghanistan 0 : 2 Turkmenistan
Qatar 1 : 0 Kyrgyz Republic
no, apparently all they were interested in direct sale of jersey to NT
and well its easy money , you do the math taklu always call 30 players for camp so jersey,training kit, hoodies, polo, bags for every player, its good business opportunity
pretty sure likes of Iran,Japan etc would have tried different formations and used all 6 subs
We preview Group A of AFC Asian Cup which consist of India alongside Host UAE, Thailand and Bahrain
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http://www.indianfootballnetwork.com/blog/2018/12/26/afc-asian-cup-2019-group-a-preview/