Main problem with soccer in India is league construction: Kushal Das

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All India Football Federation (AIFF) basic secretary Kushal Das on Friday stated that the primary problem with soccer within the nation is the shortage of a sturdy league construction.

The Indian males’s soccer league system consists of three divisions (Indian Super League, I-league and I-League 2nd Division), moreover the Indian Women’s League (IWL).

Currently ranked 106th within the FIFA chart, the lads’s nationwide group is aiming to qualify for its second profitable AFC Asian Cup finals and are clubbed with Afghanistan (150), Cambodia (171) Hong Kong (147) in Group D for the qualifiers in June .

“… It’s such a well-liked sport, straightforward to play, nonetheless India is way from the place it ought to be and that is a really legitimate query. I feel the primary problem with soccer in India is the league construction,” Das stated on the launch of ‘International Sports Expo’ right here.

India kicked off the I-league in 2007 whereas international locations like Japan and South Korea had began a lot earlier than, and Das conceded that India was late on that entrance too.

“Now method again within the Nineteen Seventies, India used to beat Japan, within the 60s India beat South Korea to win the Asian Cup, however after that we misplaced. The motive could be very easy; Japan began the league, their nationwide league within the Eighties, and South Korea on the identical time. India truly began a nationwide league in 2007, which is the I-league, so we’re 20 years behind.

“There is no other option but to play continuously under a good coach for six to eight months in a year and play a certain minimum number of matches in a proper league structure, that is home and away, when you are playing for six-eight months, that is the structure which is missing,” the AIFF official elaborated.

He additionally stated that the length of the Indian Super League additionally must be elevated.

ISL is now the nation’s prime league, with the I-League pushed down within the hierarchy.

“We try to place that construction in place, which is occurring, we’ve now the ISL, after all the length of ISL must be elevated. Hopefully going ahead subsequent 12 months, we might have a construction the place soccer shall be performed for six-eight months and in any respect ranges.

“Not just the senior level, it has to be at the U13, U15, U18 boys and girls, and that is what we need to establish, hopefully it will happen,” Das signed off.

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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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