subject: Why India Has Not Come Up In World Football - Part 2 [print this page] Please read the part 1 of this article before reading this. The players slog it out for the domestic glory all year and then we expect these tired limbs to win us an international match against a well formed and well rested teams. Football players are paid well enough in our country, but not if you compare it with our batsmen and bowlers. Hence they cannot pull out of domestic leagues either.
Indian players who play and practice hard at our domestic grounds, often fail to impress on the green and beautiful foreign fields. Few well equipped stadiums are a prime need to push the nation up in the world football league. The field or a football pitch is a very critical part of the game. Players practice day in and day out on our uneven and patchy and muddy fields and then suddenly, one day you take them to South Korea for a match played on a hard, green, thick-grassed and well sprinkled ground. The players take time to adjust to these conditions and come home with a narrow defeat. The coaching staff also plays a vital role in any teams performance and while no one doubts the potential of our national coaching staff, no one trusts it either.
The problem is India as a team is a bit late in the scene and trying to catch up with other teams. The boom of football hit other nations way too early than it hit us.
The major reason for India's failure at world level football, is that the whole Indian football situation is handled with the same approach as by well established European countries. But what we lost in the process is that these countries came up with their domestic leagues after the success of their national teams. The whole system followed up there is standing on a very strong foundation of national glory.
The Indian approach towards world football is to survive and not win. It seems we, as always, are just playing it safe.
Why India Has Not Come Up In World Football - Part 2
