my thoughts on indian football .

 first off let me just me get something off my chest . i will continue with managers series but first off let me just about my motherland bharat (english name india) . there was a afc qualifier that happened this month . the game was against hongkong . india was supposed to win the game but it lost and just like any other india i too am saddened in the defeat but let me tell you i am not here to criticize or defend anybody . 

after the defeat against hongkong bhutia legend of indian football accused the current incumbent of not doing enough for indian football. first off let me tell you i had been playing football my whole life and i had seen various stages of financial struggles to financial riches of indian football . there is isl and various competetions . indian footballers make a decent amount of money and they should admit . although its not like cricket but then let me tell you they make a decent living and have a good financial security compared to old times . 

now coming to problem i think the problem is not with the system but with the player themselves . the indian players lack the ambition to be big and do something on the world stage . i think they are satisfied by living in the pond and dont want to get out because there you will have to work hard and i think they dont want to do that . i was watching facebook clips and there were guys dicussing about the football infrastructure but let me tell you compared to other countries i think india has better infrastructure . the problem lies with ambition and the hard working mentality and looking about yourself in the mirror and finding ways as to how you can  be better . practice doesnt mean that you do the same thing everyday but doing better everday and getting better at things . compared to old times there are many a avenues available to get better and i think we need to do that . the isl had been going for last 10 or 12 years but had it contributed anything or made the standard better . i dont think so . so i think instead of blaming the system its time to get better and improve so that when the next generation come it gets into that habit and we reach some where better . 

THIS IS A CONTINOUS POST ON MANAGERS . I AM GOING TO UPDATE IT REGULARLY .

 the season is over and the transfer market is open. first off what is the definition of the manager . in modern football a manager  is the one who is always crying, loathing and one who is always unsatisfied with his current squad and blames the board for not letting him spend . let me be honest but current football matches are so boring that i dont have the patience or heart to watch the boring football that is played .  i am chess student and in chess whenever a player losses or even when he wins he analyses the match and i wonder as to why these managers dont do that . from the sidelines you can see as to what is wrong and what are your pieces( players ) doing . you can correct there positions can tell that is why you are there . to be honest cant these managers look the play and see what is wrong . to be honest there had been not a single team who are pleasure to watch . they have brought the technology in the game but they havent been able to that technology properly . as i had said tactics means just defending for these managers and i havent seen anybody really put the work to coach their team as to what they need to do in the final third.  

the one thing that i had been saying is today's players are technically hopeless . there are very rare players who play from the middle of the foot and pass the ball with the perfect weight and the ball rolling sticking to the field . you always find the ball bouncing when they pass . let me tell you when you pass the player then the player receiving the pass should have to make the minimum effort to control the ball . most importantly if you pass correctly then he doesnt needs to make two touches . he can just pass the ball in one go and that makes the game more faster as well the opposition cant read the game since they dont have the time to read your pass . i can read the players foot and see where the pass is going and in that way can read the play . players nowadays are just atheltes not real players and that makes football boring . as cryuff had said playing football the easy way is the hardest thing to do . 

let me start with brazil . brazil has appointed ancelottti . i dont know as to what they see in him and what special quality  does ancelotti brings to the table . let me tell you from my experience ancelotti is a good man manager . but ancelotti is tactically great or his teams play attractive football is a dream . i dont know as to what they thought or may be they thought that since ancelotti had been lucky so may be they will get lucky . the problem with brazil is that there football is on the decline just tell me any good players from brazil after neymar. in the last two world cups the teams had all revolved around neymar and that is crux of the problem . football is a team sport and when you get depended on one player to carry the team then that becomes problem instead of a solution . there is no good midfielder nor any good flair player. vinicius is good but that stupid idiot just operates in one zone and just doesnt reads the game and is too selfish . ancelotti had not been able to correct him at real madrid then how come he can correct him in the brazil squad. let us see as to what magic ancelotti brings to the brazil team but dont get  head over heels and expect anything great . 

since i have talked about ancelotti its very correct to talk about his successor alonso . alonso is replacing amcelotti . he has already stated that he will be ditching the 3-4-3 system that he employed at leverkusen . it will be interesting to see as to what he will do with the team because let me tell you . just like his spanish roots alonso likes to control the game and play tiki taka possession football and that is what is being expected off alonso that his style will compete with alonso and that he can give a tough competetion to barca . now the trouble is that the players that he is inheriting are they able to adapt to the system . most of these players haved played on the counter with their previous managers . most importantly madrid dont have the midfielders which are required to control the game and set the tempo of the game . it would be very interesting to see as to how his team plays and the system that he deploys. the one important thing that everybody may think that mbappe will suffer from this system but let me tell you mbappe is very good technical player and having alonso in the dugout will help him .