new national league is all we need

shankar · June 2011

i just wonder how can we call the current league as national league...given the clubs for upcoming seasons and also from past.....if we give a look at clubs at coming season..
clubs from west Bengal :- east bengal, mohun bagan, united sc, indian arrows
clubs from Goa:- dempo, churchill brothers, salgaonkar, sporting clude de goa
clubs from Maharashtra:- pune fc, mumbai fc,air india
club from Bangalore:- hal
club from north east:- shillong lajong
club from Kerala:- viva Kerala
club from north:- zerooooooo
this league can never be called a national league given the area of our country....
another thing is that.....of our big four clubs who buy players for any big amount from smaller clubs or for some below avg foreigners....but unwilling to spent those money on youth development and other development activities......
on one side where we have top club side(Barcelona) of the world generating its own players..here our clubs are interested only in winning the league by buying foreigners for crores....

all we need is a national league which can help reach the game to every possible corner of our country..

on lines of mls....franchise system consisting of 16-20 teams divided in two regions(east and west).....
to keep the interest of game....let there be local rivals from goa, bengal , maharashtra and one from north east....these teams would occupy 8 teams.....still we could be able to keep min of 8 teams outside them...let these clubs be arranged in such a way that all top football loving city get their share...
all important thing is that these franchise be made compelled to have all training facilities,academy and own stadium....

archak · June 2011

I quite agree with you. in mls there is no relegation which i think is the need of the hour for indian football. new investors would like such arrangement as it does not force the owner to overspend in fear of relegation which inturn makes the club go bust.

ashindia · June 2011

Take Indonesia’s cue: Indian football needs its own Kerry Packer

Another pow-wow on the future of Indian football took place in Delhi recently: the second International Football Arena Roundtable, described on its Facebook page as an "exclusive conference for decision makers of the international world of football". And, suitably, some exclusive people turned up: Thierry Regenass from FIFA, Andy Knee of IMG, former Chelsea star Graham Le Saux and a gaggle of Indian football and business identities.

The message was clear if familiar: India is an almost peerless opportunity for the future growth of the global game and everyone wants in – including embattled FIFA, whose director for member associations and development, Regenass, suggested the All-India Football Federation bid to stage the FIFA U-17 World Cup in 2017 or 2019.

The problem is right now Indian football is in one hell of a mess. Poor infrastructure, deficient resources in grassroots development and talent identification, a disconnect between the administrators of the sport and big business, inferior coaching and lack of technical know-how. Plus let's not forget that royal shellacking at the 2011 AFC Asian Cup for the Bhangra Boys. They won't be given a free pass to that tournament again any time soon.

It's not like India needs another confab on what it needs to do. Anyone associated with the Indian game is well aware of what is required. The pressing issue is who is going to get the process started and how quickly. Frankly, staging the U-17 World Cup is not going to turbocharge the Indian game. Government money and the efforts of the AIFF and its corporate partners would just be wasted on a tournament with no guarantee of a legacy and a very real chance of failure. Let's not mince words: the Commonwealth Games in Delhi was a disaster. It hasn't left Indian sport better off. The only headlines it brought India internationally were highly embarrassing ones. It's not a good look, especially when your chief organiser is arrested and thrown into Tihar jail.

Instead, what will energise the game is the beneficence of a visionary business figure or media identity. Someone with deep pockets and, more importantly, a willingness to take on the bureaucracy that plagues the Indian game and, if necessary, destroy it. Just like Kerry Packer did to stuffy Australian cricket in the 1970s.

And it can be done in football. You only need to look at what oil tycoon Arifin Panigoro has done in Indonesia with his creation of the 19-team Indonesia Premier League or Liga Primer Indonesia (LPI), started up in direct opposition to the ruling federation's Indonesia Super League (ISL).

Three teams from the ISL even defected to the rebel league, wanting a slice of the LPI pie: improved money, better conditions, more foreign players, the spoils from increased sponsorship and TV rights revenue. Panigoro was threatened with all sorts of sanctions, as was the PSSI, the Indonesian FA, for allowing such an outrage to take place under its watch. Local players running around in the LPI were told they could not play for the national team. FIFA has zero tolerance for competitions it doesn't control. It demanded the LPI be crushed. Instead, what transpired was extraordinary. Realising that the PSSI was in fact the basket case its critics claimed it to be and the LPI was not so bad after all, FIFA did a complete U-turn and recognised the LPI as a legitimate league. Its local players were told they were free to play for Indonesia.

Panigoro, for his part, is currently banned from standing for the PSSI chairmanship in the election on July 9, but fighting that decree from FIFA's normalisation committee all the way. And Indonesia has yet to be tossed out of the international football family.

There's every chance that next month Panigoro, backed by the so-called "Group 78" (a collective of Indonesian football stakeholders) will be installed as chairman of the PSSI, the LPI and ISL will go on to be merged (with requisite adjustments) and FIFA will have considerable egg on its face. For a remarkable precedent will have been set: football's world governing body can be taken on by the little guys and beaten. Is the I-League really the most attractive possible package for the local game in a land as mad about football as India? I think not. The AIFF should be put on notice. It's not a question of if the barbarians will mass at the gate, but when.

Article by Sports Journalist Jesse Fink

About Indonesia Premier League :- <a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia_Premier_League">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia_Premier_League</a>

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Varun Kochi · October 2011

"shankar&quot wrote:

i just wonder how can we call the current league as national league...given the clubs for upcoming seasons and also from past.....if we give a look at clubs at coming season..
clubs from west Bengal :- east bengal, mohun bagan, united sc, indian arrows
clubs from Goa:- dempo, churchill brothers, salgaonkar, sporting clude de goa
clubs from Maharashtra:- pune fc, mumbai fc,air india
club from Bangalore:- hal
club from north east:- shillong lajong
club from Kerala:- viva Kerala
club from north:- zerooooooo
this league can never be called a national league given the area of our country....
another thing is that.....of our big four clubs who buy players for any big amount from smaller clubs or for some below avg foreigners....but unwilling to spent those money on youth development and other development activities......
on one side where we have top club side(Barcelona) of the world generating its own players..here our clubs are interested only in winning the league by buying foreigners for crores....

all we need is a national league which can help reach the game to every possible corner of our country..

on lines of mls....franchise system consisting of 16-20 teams divided in two regions(east and west).....
to keep the interest of game....let there be local rivals from goa, bengal , maharashtra and one from north east....these teams would occupy 8 teams.....still we could be able to keep min of 8 teams outside them...let these clubs be arranged in such a way that all top football loving city get their share...
all important thing is that these franchise be made compelled to have all training facilities,academy and own stadium....

he he...someone with similar thoughts to me!! bottomline - a new city based franchise league!! <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/eusa/clap.gif" alt=":clap:" title="Clap" />
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Varun Kochi · October 2011

"ashindia&quot wrote:

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"ashindia&quot wrote:

Take Indonesia’s cue: Indian football needs its own Kerry Packer

Another pow-wow on the future of Indian football took place in Delhi recently: the second International Football Arena Roundtable, described on its Facebook page as an "exclusive conference for decision makers of the international world of football". And, suitably, some exclusive people turned up: Thierry Regenass from FIFA, Andy Knee of IMG, former Chelsea star Graham Le Saux and a gaggle of Indian football and business identities.

The message was clear if familiar: India is an almost peerless opportunity for the future growth of the global game and everyone wants in – including embattled FIFA, whose director for member associations and development, Regenass, suggested the All-India Football Federation bid to stage the FIFA U-17 World Cup in 2017 or 2019.

The problem is right now Indian football is in one hell of a mess. Poor infrastructure, deficient resources in grassroots development and talent identification, a disconnect between the administrators of the sport and big business, inferior coaching and lack of technical know-how. Plus let's not forget that royal shellacking at the 2011 AFC Asian Cup for the Bhangra Boys. They won't be given a free pass to that tournament again any time soon.

It's not like India needs another confab on what it needs to do. Anyone associated with the Indian game is well aware of what is required. The pressing issue is who is going to get the process started and how quickly. Frankly, staging the U-17 World Cup is not going to turbocharge the Indian game. Government money and the efforts of the AIFF and its corporate partners would just be wasted on a tournament with no guarantee of a legacy and a very real chance of failure. Let's not mince words: the Commonwealth Games in Delhi was a disaster. It hasn't left Indian sport better off. The only headlines it brought India internationally were highly embarrassing ones. It's not a good look, especially when your chief organiser is arrested and thrown into Tihar jail.

Instead, what will energise the game is the beneficence of a visionary business figure or media identity. Someone with deep pockets and, more importantly, a willingness to take on the bureaucracy that plagues the Indian game and, if necessary, destroy it. Just like Kerry Packer did to stuffy Australian cricket in the 1970s.

And it can be done in football. You only need to look at what oil tycoon Arifin Panigoro has done in Indonesia with his creation of the 19-team Indonesia Premier League or Liga Primer Indonesia (LPI), started up in direct opposition to the ruling federation's Indonesia Super League (ISL).

Three teams from the ISL even defected to the rebel league, wanting a slice of the LPI pie: improved money, better conditions, more foreign players, the spoils from increased sponsorship and TV rights revenue. Panigoro was threatened with all sorts of sanctions, as was the PSSI, the Indonesian FA, for allowing such an outrage to take place under its watch. Local players running around in the LPI were told they could not play for the national team. FIFA has zero tolerance for competitions it doesn't control. It demanded the LPI be crushed. Instead, what transpired was extraordinary. Realising that the PSSI was in fact the basket case its critics claimed it to be and the LPI was not so bad after all, FIFA did a complete U-turn and recognised the LPI as a legitimate league. Its local players were told they were free to play for Indonesia.

Panigoro, for his part, is currently banned from standing for the PSSI chairmanship in the election on July 9, but fighting that decree from FIFA's normalisation committee all the way. And Indonesia has yet to be tossed out of the international football family.

There's every chance that next month Panigoro, backed by the so-called "Group 78" (a collective of Indonesian football stakeholders) will be installed as chairman of the PSSI, the LPI and ISL will go on to be merged (with requisite adjustments) and FIFA will have considerable egg on its face. For a remarkable precedent will have been set: football's world governing body can be taken on by the little guys and beaten. Is the I-League really the most attractive possible package for the local game in a land as mad about football as India? I think not. The AIFF should be put on notice. It's not a question of if the barbarians will mass at the gate, but when.

Article by Sports Journalist Jesse Fink

About Indonesia Premier League :- <a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia_Premier_League"; onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia_Premier_League</a>

Official Website <a class="postlink" href="http://ligaprimer.co.id/"; onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://ligaprimer.co.id/</a>

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indian_gooner · October 2011

@ above :-bhangra boys <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/angry/screaming.gif" alt=":angry-screaming:" title="Screaming" /> <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/angry/screaming.gif" alt=":angry-screaming:" title="Screaming" /> <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/angry/screaming.gif" alt=":angry-screaming:" title="Screaming" />

new national league is all we need

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