To put it merely, I hope we do all the appropriate issues throughout the board and put in an informed and sincere effort in the appropriate route [in the next decade].
My expectations aren’t restricted to only the boys’s senior nationwide group however to each single side of Indian soccer.
However, if I had been to place it broadly, I need us to be thought-about among the many finest within the Asian continent over the following decade.
I’m no soothsayer. What I’ll say is that we [the men’s national team] do possess the expertise to attain issues.
When I take a look at the kids round me within the nationwide group, it fills my coronary heart with hope. These are boys who’re proficient and are prepared so as to add the aspect of laborious work that expertise virtually all the time wants. It’s essential that we preserve our heads down and keep centered on the job.
In phrases of the league soccer construction and the way forward for the Indian Super League, there are extra groups coming in, and that’s a improbable signal. A stable, sturdy, and longer league season will do wonders.
What constitutes success for Indian soccer ought to ideally be a really lengthy reply. Consistently qualifying for and progressing additional in main tournaments within the continent, extra video games in opposition to high quality opponents in each potential window, an extended league with extra groups, a stable ladies’s league, extra competitors for reserve and academy sides, high quality pitches for everybody — the youngsters, the reserves, the professionals.
We have to sustain with the practises that the very best within the continent and the world are embracing.
I’m hopeful concerning the future [of strikers coming through], and I’m not simply saying this to sound optimistic.
Talent isn’t a lot an issue as consistency is. We have some high quality children who possess the flexibility. What they should do is have successive, constant seasons. We can’t be blowing cold and warm.
As advised to Aashin Prasad
