By John Cheeran
Everyone agrees on this point. To breathe fresh air
into Indian football, you have to work at grassroots. Indian footballers,
including the senior national squad, lack basic skills of dribbling and
controlling. How can any coach, however inspirational and astute he is, teach
seniors the basics? He can, of course, improve their tactical play.
By virtue of their lackadaisical display in
whatever limited opportunities that came their way in recent times, Indian
national footballers are free birds now. They have no burdens of play like
teams that have qualified for World Cup, Asian Challenge Cup and Asian Cup. The
football competition as part of Asian Games in Incheon in South Korea is only
in September. But only three seniors can be in the squad for Asian Games since
it is an Under-23 event.
If that's the case, what role do national team
coach Wim Koevermans and technical director Rob Baan play?
AIFF brought in Dutch veteran Baan in November
2011. A year later, Baan sold his countryman Koevermans to AIFF in July 2012 as
national coach.
Things, however, haven't improved.
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