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It's time to stop wasting time in #indianfootball , especially grassroots #coaching . Quitting!! After Coaching for 6.5 years every week, building grassroots teams from scratch, 11 played nationals, it kills me to see people who sit through courses get a pass. 1/n

@Nher_who This was announced in the morning by the University. Aap chronology samjhiye 👇😆

-He is Ashok Mittal - He was MP from AAP - On 14th April ED raided his house - On 24th April he Joined BJP Baaki aap khud samjhdaar hai !!

#IWL 2nd round starts on 27th with the pending match from Round 1. Will be interesting to see how the teams respond after a long break and extreme heat

This is how State Leagues should function. Clear notice, clear expectations. Open to NGO's as well. Cut to Delhi. Only Member clubs gets the Notice. To be a member club without voting rights, affiliation fee is 25 Lacs. To be an affiliate academy pay 20-25 K/ year. 😒😠

One thing which AIFF has done successfully over the years is to scout fluent English speaking South Delhi elites for the Presser and PR irrespective of sporting/ performance merit. The 3rd generation is here.😆

@panenka_goal Malpractices are gender neutral. Our "systems" ensure equality & neutrality in that aspect

We can’t stop lobbying in Men’s football itself where non performing players getting call ups for senior National team. It idiotic of us to expect that their will be any fair call up in Women’s football across age group teams. Last space we did hear about unfair selection.

@alnshbdr @d_subrataCE OFCW team is outsourced to a Mumbai club. Crispin's Coaching is not game centric, results are not in his favour & selections smell of lobbies gaining upper hand. AIFF wants a YES man. The major beneficiaries of this are clubs with big academy setups by pushing avg players in NT

@d_subrataCE If Crispin is to continue after all (someone else is managing Odisha in IWL 2), then he should get Pro license at the earliest as well. In qualifiers, Priya PV was the official coach on reports, & most likely the same will happen in AFC & FIFA competitive matches in future.

& wo wil b benifitd if #Velverde z nt givn the contract ! Defintly some1 whose contrct endng on 31st March, somebdy wo thinks "it's unfair to him or his staff" as a NewCoach z appointd as if the priority is his job nt the🇮🇳WNT campaign evn aftr his blundrs v 🇳🇵🇮🇷 #IndianFootball

@panenka_goal @indiafemmefooty For Age groups as well, maybe the same fate follows post respective Asian Cups'. Lobbying gets difficult under foreign coaches Especially when they are old in the system. With indian coaches, clubs with academies & residential setup have stronger dictat & lobby in pushing players

@indiafemmefooty There is not future for women’s senior team’s coaching. Neither we will see a deserving coach getting appointed nor foreign coach gets time with team. Technical committee with IM Vijayan is screwed everything.

"The meeting was chaired by IM Vijayan, along with members Harjinder Singh, Shabbir Ali, Victor Amalraj, Climax Lawrence, and Santosh Singh, who recommended that the Federation look at Indian coaches as possible options to take over as the head coach of the senior Indian women’s national team, which has returned from their AFC Women’s Asian Cup campaign earlier this month." We are 2 steps forward and one step backward. And we want to qualify for a WC with this attitude. What a disaster wrt coach selection by Technical committee!

#indianfootball nowadays based on "Handlers". Tournaments (not league!) are projects & Squads are assembled based on the exchequer. Players enjoy flights & hotels, status & reels. Build "network" aka lobbies. Little training/ learning. Mostly matches. Nurturing is a big word....

It's a mirage, simply not worth chasing the goals of excellence in this country. After spending 12 years everyday in grassroots can say we shall look for better things to do with our lives. No one gives a damn, beyond a point not even the players themselves.

For all those surprised at #INDvJPN score has never watched #IWL , #IWL2, State Leagues, leave aside age group/ grassroots football. With 2 week IWL2, 3 month IWL, 6 match State Leagues,mostly unprofessional players,agent driven squads, egoistic coaches,we deserve that scoreline.

@rIndianFootball Why don't you guys file it and make the answer public. The world is not short of ideas but implementation. Saying this bcoz real activism comes with real consequences. P.S. Have filed RTI's in the past with State FA's and got no response as presumably they are not under RTI😒

Can someone please file an RTI asking how much AIFF spends on the office holders? How much has been spent on flights, hotels and meetings for Kalyan Chaubey and co? How many Crores have been spent on consultants for failed RFPs?

For a long time, I had the (implicit) idea that possession football means to “keep the ball”. And when you do that, players will have the ball more often and will naturally create more chances. Which was not the case. It led to: - (Boring) side to side passing (because it is the safer option to pass back or horizontal than passing forward. Why should I risk passing forward, when the goal is to keep the ball?). - Conflicts: "We want to keep the ball, but the way to the goal is open" --> Conflict destroys the flow, which then looks robotic. Switching the overall intention to “possession so we can get to the opposing goal in a more controlled way” (‘vertical possession’), made all the difference. When you get the overall intention right, suddenly all the other things get better naturally. Passes get more precise. Fewer miscommunications. Better decisions. More creative actions. And, of course, more goals. A subtle difference, but it makes all the difference.

Essay: Escape A few thoughts and reflections on the analysis bubble. "My concern is less about what is objectively right or wrong in football, and more about how we, as analysts and coaches, sometimes present our ideas as universal truths." spielverlagerung.com/2026/02/06/ess…

Must read Football feels Joyless now due to this same old Race and Missing out mindset We have to be mindful of the collateral damage it has on kids who pick up the game out of our Joy & Love for PLAY

I totally agree with Joshua here but the challenge to access is not ability but politics in State FA & lobbying culture between State & AIFF Otherwise Delhi's two time top scorer would have got a trial call up atleast instead of random names from specific clubs #IndianFootball

@JAdairSoccer animeghosh@gmail.com Thanks so much👍

Since a handful have asked, I’m more than happy to share the full document with the other phases of play. Just drop me your email down below if you’re interested ⬇️

🇮🇳 🇩🇪 | Germany's @BMW invests in Indian Women's Football. In partnership with @TOKKMF, the initiative provided educational support and footy training to many underprivileged girls - with 8 of them earning contracts in IWL and pro state leagues! PROUD MOMENT #IndianFootball 👏

Thread 🧵 coming soon From random selection to sub par performance Jingoism can't overshadow the lack of depth or bias in #IndianFootball Women's Futsal

There's a DIFFERENCE between Homegrown and Academy / Scouted players. Some Big Academies / Clubs in the country have forgotten that completely. Credit mongering is at another level in #IndianFootball

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