AFC Asian cup 2019

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India are running riot here, good stuff.

Edit: you lot should really start allowing second citizenships and have full time scouts in the UK and Canada.
 

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Ballache said:
India are running riot here, good stuff.

Edit: you lot should really start allowing second citizenships and have full time scouts in the UK and Canada.
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We definetely should.

But anyway this is a dream come true.
 

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Thats the best Indian performance in recent times. Emphatic victory in a must win game. Some great goals too. Remaining two games will be tough. Hopefully we can do enough and qualify from the group. Kudos to Constantine and the players.
 

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Just saying :wenger:
 

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All the three goals from open play by India are world class finishes. I'm sure Morata wouldn't have scored from any of those chances!
 

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Australia team is so mediocre nowadays.

Must be frustrating given the interest in Football there now and yet they simply haven't got the standard of players they were producing 15-20 years ago.
 

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Cannot find any UK media outlets that are showing this tournament. Annoying.
 

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Viral United said:
ISL has done it for India, one of best performance.
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I don't like what is happening to the older 'normal' leagues i.e I-league (played over the course of a season not 3 months) - I don't think playing 3-4 months instead of a full season can be particularly helpful to developing young talents. Ecstatic about the win though - saw the match - thought we were excellent. 1st half was so-so but we restricted the Thais to shots from outside the box and set-pieces mainly. 2nd half, we absolutely dominated. I believe good things are happening for Indian football recently. We were 173 ranked just 3-4 years back. Now, we are 97th which is the highest we have been since 96'. Onward and upwards!
 

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China look really poor. I don't see them getting back in to this unless they come out much better in the e second half
 

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GailSpaceWynand said:
I don't like what is happening to the older 'normal' leagues i.e I-league (played over the course of a season not 3 months) - I don't think playing 3-4 months instead of a full season can be particularly helpful to developing young talents. Ecstatic about the win though - saw the match - thought we were excellent. 1st half was so-so but we restricted the Thais to shots from outside the box and set-pieces mainly. 2nd half, we absolutely dominated. I believe good things are happening for Indian football recently. We were 173 ranked just 3-4 years back. Now, we are 97th which is the highest we have been since 96'. Onward and upwards!
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There is 2 league in Indian football I-League and ISL, both league share top spot in Indian football, but Indian football grow exponentially since introduction of ISL in 2013.
Here are some reason.
Marketing - As you know marketing is big part for sport in any country. I-League was here since 20 years, and having big club like 'Mohan Bagan' and 'East Bengal' they fail big time in marketing. ISL is commercial friendly they generate more revenue and money and surly give new life in this dying sport in India.

Player Contract - I League is fail in this area, there were stories where players didn't paid for full length of contract, and some time paid under value. Some time player got season long injury and suddenly he found himself without club and contract terminated. This is due to club didn't have enough money and contract are not well written. In ISL this issue is solve, now contract are professionally created and player has insurance to been paid full length of contract. Result some player can think it as carrier option.

Playing condition - One of biggest talking point when ISL introduce is playing condition in India, I think ISL promoter take it seriously and make sure players have good pitch and good facilities are available. Signing big name players (thought at retirement age) make sure standard maintain in league.
If you want to know how hopeless we are for playing condition I give you one example,
8-9 years ago 'Mohan Bagan' club couch told FA Cup organizer to improve pitch condition, as right now pitch condition are so bad he fear Mohan Bagan's player will got injured. I had seen that matches in telly and what I see was socking. It was 50% grass pitch other 50% was mud, In some area they applied sand to sock up water and mud.

Competition - It up to deliberation but only thing I point out is, in current Indian team, 10 players are from ISL and only 1 player is from I-League. I think having good couch and player do help to develop some of Indian players.

I partially follow Indian football so list can go on, but I don't want to bore you with it.

Form this years on ISL will play for 6-7 months which I think fair for state of football in our country.
I think ISL is still in early stage in India, but ISL do more positive then I-League in 20 years.
 

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Actually woke up at 5:45 in the morning to watch China-Kyrgyzstan.

Really nice first half by the Kyrgyz, they could have been 3 up. Then, second half starts and their keeper pulls his best Karius/Pickford impression. Unbelievable amateur and bad. Gifted the victory to China. Gutted for the Kyrgyz as this was their first ever match in an international tournament and they shot themselves in the foot in the most ridiculous way.

 

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Waiting for an Iran masterclass in negativity from 1-0.
Should be winning 3/4-0 but they are incredibly negative as soon as they take a lead even against dire sides.
 

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Everybody taking India lightly are simply overlooking the fact that our FIFA ranking improved from around 170s 3-4 years back to 93 currently. These things just didn't happen by luck. There has been a lot of emphasis on promoting football in India (just look at the ads regarding ISL).

Having said that, there is still a long way to go - here's hoping for a bright future
 

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Yes we do have an exciting young crops of players, still they are not at the level to disrupt the current hierarchy in the region, yet. I expect them to lose to Iran, have a great fight with Iraq and finish 3rd of the group. Might snatch 2nd place though as morale as high as ever after the Suzuki cup win.
We have decent coach after a while and our teamwork and harmony are awesome. If only our athletic genes are a bit better.
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Is there any way to make short players like Cong Phuong and Quang Hai stronger ? I always believe our country can produce a Messi or David Silva some day :D
 

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Waiting for an Iran masterclass in negativity from 1-0.
Should be winning 3/4-0 but they are incredibly negative as soon as they take a lead even against dire sides.
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3-0 after 28 minutes.

Great jinx mate...maybe that's what we needed to finally bring the cup home after 40+ years ! :lol:
 

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3-0 after 28 minutes.

Great jinx mate...maybe that's what we needed to finally bring the cup home after 40+ years ! :lol:
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:lol: Worked out well for me, means I didn't have to sit through another 90 minute borefest. Remember watching them play against Panama's 3rd team, went 2-0 up after 20 and basically had no chances after that. Could have won 8-0 if they wanted.
 

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rampo said:
Everybody taking India lightly are simply overlooking the fact that our FIFA ranking improved from around 170s 3-4 years back to 93 currently. These things just didn't happen by luck. There has been a lot of emphasis on promoting football in India (just look at the ads regarding ISL).

Having said that, there is still a long way to go - here's hoping for a bright future
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While our results have improved, our earlier ranking was that low becasue we didn't play a lot of games in the international break period, which resulted us in getting 0 points
 

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Graham Potter and all of Oestersund must be proud!
 

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Australia team is so mediocre nowadays.

Must be frustrating given the interest in Football there now and yet they simply haven't got the standard of players they were producing 15-20 years ago.
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Yep. Back in the late 90's-mid 00's pretty much all of our players were playing in the Premier League or Serie A, many of them being amongst the best players in their teams. These days it's not even close.
 

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Congrats to the few Team Melli fans on here. Good result. Shaky start but nice to get a few goals without injuries.
 

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Our game against Iran will be the tiebreaker. We have a good record against Iran. Hope we do well against Vietnam tomorrow.
 

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Apologies if already posted but just seeking to know if any of the UK channels are broadcasting this tournament?

Come on India!!! :D
 
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