I think my favorite thing from the AIFF are the videos about this Sivan guy who signed for Kerala Blasters. Instead of showing his highlights from the Reliance Youth Tournament thing, they just show little clips of him at a school or whatever... it is so badly staged.
Club should take the initiative to nurture young kids. If every club nurture at least 15-20 Players in each batch it will enough to flourish as a footballing nation. The academy culture should starts at the age of 6 and through elimination process they should short listed 20-30 player at the age of 10 and the next elimination should done at the age of 15. There on nurture the primes. A academy needs 2-3 properly maintains ground with a residential house and floodlights. Even if they charge a minimum rupees of 10-15 k annually. The parents will happily pay that. The problem with our club is, they find short cuts. They see the youth development program as a liability not as a necessity. They don't know through their academy they can doing some business also.
The current under-16 teams has players from clubs. 3 from Ozone, 3 from Minerva, 3 from Shillong Lajong, 1 from Tata FA, 1 from Sporting Goa, 1 from Royal Wahingdoh. The rest are AIFF Regional Academy or Reliance.
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Half of them are rich kids who pay huge sums
Were are EB, Mb, BFC or goan club's
Or other ISL clubs
Probably they'll run after these players bribing people to sign them
We are way way behind the rest unless we change whole system especially the youth system we won't taste any real success
http://u17worldcupkolkata.in/
AIFF needs a proper U15 and U19 league structure in place so clubs too can invest seriously.