Based on this analysis, it looks like our squad at the SAFF games was not really that different from the IMG squad. The squads had ten players in common and all ten made it to the AFC squad too. Only Alen Deory and Uttam Rai from the IMG squad didn't participate in the SAFF squad and have been brought back for the AFC squad. Eight others who were brought in for the SAFF games have retained their places. And 3 other new players have been called up.
Players common to IMG, SAFF and AFC squads: 10
Players common to IMG and AFC squads only: 2
Players common to SAFF and AFC squads only: 8
Players only on IMG squad: 4 - Manraj Singh, Siddharth Mukhi, Hanan Javed Nellikavil (Midfielders); Anis Kaitharia (Defender)
Players only on SAFF squad: 5 - Aula Kanyeha, Randhwa Sukhjit Singh (Defenders); Vanlalthlamuana, Prokash Majumdar, Jagannath Oraon (Forwards)
Players only on AFC squad: 3
Interesting that Alen Deory was a striker and Nitin Jyal a defender at the IMG academy but they've been switched to the midfield here, while Kamalpreet and Lalhimpuia were midfielders at the SAFF games and have moved to the forward line.
Archak, do you have the names of the members of the IMG Florida team and the SAFF Cup team so we can compare and see how much overlap there was and how many of each team is represented here?
This would have been great if we had the list of the players who were in IMG so that we could compare for ourselves whether IMG has helped or not
check the dallas cup forum the team published there was learnt from a post in img academys blog
Nice article by AIFF
By Nilanjan Datta,
AIFF Media Team
Boys will be boys and will always stay as such. Let them.
The Indian U-16 squad presently in Tashkent for the AFC U-16 Qualifiers will make you nostalgic. You are bound to travel back in a Time Machine to your teenage days, which all of us, sometime of the other lament missing. School-boyish; mischievous yet shy -- they stay fearless about asking questions; questions which will hit you sharp on your face. Blame it on their age, but you will love being with them.
Watch them from a distance and like any other teenager you will discover they aren’t just all about football. One moment you will find them doting over a swanky Harley Davidson, the very next moment they will stop to glimpse through the ticker of a National News Channel. The News Bulletin in any case can wait as the gadget awaits them in the next Store. Life for them is fast – doesn’t the ball need to keep rolling?
The ball rolls and the clicks follow. Almost every step, the boys do stop -- to click. Digicams, Camcorders and the I-Phones make their presence felt. And the moment, you turn to the boys, they almost blush as they have committed a crime. The clicking, nevertheless, continues. It has to.
Boys will be boys and will always stay as such. Let them.
They take you back to your schooldays. You try to match yours with theirs and discover how time has changed. Your mind debates the sentimental question – ‘Wasn’t time two decades back, better?’
Isn’t two decades is Generation Gap? This time, your heart and mind doesn’t agree. The receding hairline and the bulging tummy makes you remember that only till yesterday, you were a part of these boys. ‘In fact, you still are,’ your heart prompts. ‘The boys are here to play and even you are.’
The energy of the bunch of boys is infectious. Even before you notice a Charging Centre, you notice the boys have already logged onto ‘Facebook’ and uploaded the clicked snaps for their friends and family members. The message from them stays clear – ‘We’re are safe and on our way.’
Embarrassed, you take out your laptop. Quick as they counter-attack on the field, three boys run to you and whisper you the security code of the Wi-Fi connection. You stay stunned yet grateful. ‘Wasn’t time two decades back slower?’ – You start debating again.
Huge LCD Screens are a common feature at any Airport nowadays. In an effort to be entertained, the boys had gathered in front of an Old Hindi Classical Movie being telecast. Within minutes you entertain yourself – as the boys stay busy mimicking Dev Anand’s antics. And then you discover -- you discover for a change, the dummy is better than the real.
But despite all, life for them is all about football. The moment they spot a Champions League match being telecast in another screen some 20 meters ahead, they race. From there, they don’t move at all. Eventually they do, but reluctantly. Barcelona were playing AC Milan on the screen.
Some hours later, a bit jaded by the jet-lag, they were busy snoring midway into a sound sleep on one of those airline seats which you have always found to be small. They have cuddled and huddled into one another -- someone’s legs on someone’s arms, maybe even the shoulder, and vice versa. You like it – after all, you were also part of a similar gang not long back.
Once in Tashkent, they start enquiring.
“When is our practice session?”
“Are the other teams staying at the same hotel?”
“How long have they prepared for the Championship?”
Stumped, you start to enquire too. The boys, by then, have already found something to click in the Hotel Lobby. You sit for them, because they will soon come back for their answers.
seriously recent articles of aiff are written with special touch that i misses the like button below their article...
one such article is the one above....
seriously recent articles of aiff are written with special touch that i misses the like button below their article...
one such article is the one above....
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Players common to IMG, SAFF and AFC squads: 10
Players common to IMG and AFC squads only: 2
Players common to SAFF and AFC squads only: 8
Players only on IMG squad: 4 - Manraj Singh, Siddharth Mukhi, Hanan Javed Nellikavil (Midfielders); Anis Kaitharia (Defender)
Players only on SAFF squad: 5 - Aula Kanyeha, Randhwa Sukhjit Singh (Defenders); Vanlalthlamuana, Prokash Majumdar, Jagannath Oraon (Forwards)
Players only on AFC squad: 3
Goalkeepers: Avinash Rao (SAFF), Agaipal Singh (IMG/SAFF), Supratim Bhattacharya (IMG/SAFF).
Defenders: Myron Mendes (IMG/SAFF), Maiban Jimmy Singh (IMG/SAFF), Suman Shah (SAFF), Sajid Dhot (IMG/SAFF), Sarthak Golui (SAFF), Rahul S, Nabin Rabha (SAFF), Gurba Gagri.
Midfielders: Alen Deory (IMG), Harmanjot Singh (IMG/SAFF), Nitin Jyal (IMG/SAFF), Germanpreet Singh (IMG/SAFF), K Lalramzuava (SAFF), Lalrammuana (IMG/SAFF), Raja Rawat (SAFF), Geremsha Basumatary.
Forwards: Kamalpreet Singh (SAFF), Daniel Lalhimpuia (SAFF), Laldantsanga (IMG/SAFF), Uttam Rai (IMG).
Interesting that Alen Deory was a striker and Nitin Jyal a defender at the IMG academy but they've been switched to the midfield here, while Kamalpreet and Lalhimpuia were midfielders at the SAFF games and have moved to the forward line.
By Nilanjan Datta,
AIFF Media Team
Boys will be boys and will always stay as such. Let them.
The Indian U-16 squad presently in Tashkent for the AFC U-16 Qualifiers will make you nostalgic. You are bound to travel back in a Time Machine to your teenage days, which all of us, sometime of the other lament missing. School-boyish; mischievous yet shy -- they stay fearless about asking questions; questions which will hit you sharp on your face. Blame it on their age, but you will love being with them.
Watch them from a distance and like any other teenager you will discover they aren’t just all about football. One moment you will find them doting over a swanky Harley Davidson, the very next moment they will stop to glimpse through the ticker of a National News Channel. The News Bulletin in any case can wait as the gadget awaits them in the next Store. Life for them is fast – doesn’t the ball need to keep rolling?
The ball rolls and the clicks follow. Almost every step, the boys do stop -- to click. Digicams, Camcorders and the I-Phones make their presence felt. And the moment, you turn to the boys, they almost blush as they have committed a crime. The clicking, nevertheless, continues. It has to.
Boys will be boys and will always stay as such. Let them.
They take you back to your schooldays. You try to match yours with theirs and discover how time has changed. Your mind debates the sentimental question – ‘Wasn’t time two decades back, better?’
Isn’t two decades is Generation Gap? This time, your heart and mind doesn’t agree. The receding hairline and the bulging tummy makes you remember that only till yesterday, you were a part of these boys. ‘In fact, you still are,’ your heart prompts. ‘The boys are here to play and even you are.’
The energy of the bunch of boys is infectious. Even before you notice a Charging Centre, you notice the boys have already logged onto ‘Facebook’ and uploaded the clicked snaps for their friends and family members. The message from them stays clear – ‘We’re are safe and on our way.’
Embarrassed, you take out your laptop. Quick as they counter-attack on the field, three boys run to you and whisper you the security code of the Wi-Fi connection. You stay stunned yet grateful. ‘Wasn’t time two decades back slower?’ – You start debating again.
Huge LCD Screens are a common feature at any Airport nowadays. In an effort to be entertained, the boys had gathered in front of an Old Hindi Classical Movie being telecast. Within minutes you entertain yourself – as the boys stay busy mimicking Dev Anand’s antics. And then you discover -- you discover for a change, the dummy is better than the real.
But despite all, life for them is all about football. The moment they spot a Champions League match being telecast in another screen some 20 meters ahead, they race. From there, they don’t move at all. Eventually they do, but reluctantly. Barcelona were playing AC Milan on the screen.
Some hours later, a bit jaded by the jet-lag, they were busy snoring midway into a sound sleep on one of those airline seats which you have always found to be small. They have cuddled and huddled into one another -- someone’s legs on someone’s arms, maybe even the shoulder, and vice versa. You like it – after all, you were also part of a similar gang not long back.
Once in Tashkent, they start enquiring.
“When is our practice session?”
“Are the other teams staying at the same hotel?”
“How long have they prepared for the Championship?”
Stumped, you start to enquire too. The boys, by then, have already found something to click in the Hotel Lobby. You sit for them, because they will soon come back for their answers.
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one such article is the one above....
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Really appreciate their efforts..i think we always criticize them but never praise the efforts..maybe i sud write one to praise them!!!!