No head coach for India girls’s soccer workforce | Soccer News
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For over three months, the senior India girls’s soccer workforce has been and not using a head coach. This within the yr of the Asian Video games in September and the second spherical of the Olympic qualifiers in October-November. And it comes six months after All India Soccer Federation (AIFF) launched its Imaginative and prescient 2047 programme which talks of elevated concentrate on the ladies’s sport and a four-tier league pyramid by 2026.
Thomas Dennerby was the final head coach. His contract ended on March 31 however the Swede stayed in command of the primary spherical of Olympic qualifiers, in opposition to Kyrgyzstan on April 4 and seven. India gained the primary sport 5-0 and the second 4-0 in Bishkek to qualify for the second spherical.
An AIFF government committee member advised HT on Wednesday that India gamers wished Dennerby to proceed until at the very least the top of the second spherical of the Olympics qualifiers. "The gamers stated there isn't any time to regulate to a brand new coach now," the official stated. The official requested anonymity given the delicate nature of the problem.
India, sixtieth in FIFA rankings, have been grouped with Japan, Vietnam and Uzbekistan within the second spherical. India are scheduled to play Japan on October 26, Vietnam on October 29 and Uzbekistan on November 1. The highest two groups from every group will qualify for the third spherical from the place the primary two groups will make the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Japan and Vietnam have certified for the Ladies’s World Cup, to be held in Australia and New Zealand, from July 20-August 20.
Headed by IM Vijayan, the AIFF’s technical committee met on Could 27 but when a choice was taken on the way forward for the senior girls’s workforce head coach, it was not made public. An AIFF government committee member advised HT on Thursday that a proposal to nominate Anthony Andrews, who gained the 2022-23 Indian Ladies’s League with Gokulam Kerala, was rejected. The technical committee is scheduled to fulfill on Thursday.
Presumably as a result of they don’t have a head coach, India didn't utilise the FIFA window between July 10-18. Bangladesh and Nepal are taking part in two friendlies in opposition to one another, on Thursday and on July 16. Pakistan are scheduled to play Singapore on July 15. No plan for preparation for Asian Video games or the qualifiers have been made public but.
Named senior workforce head coach in August 2021, Dennerby, who coached Sweden to the third-place within the 2011 World Cup and Nigeria to the spherical of 16 within the 2019 version, skilled the gamers for 5 months resulting in the 2022 Asian Cup the place India pulled after the primary match out resulting from an outbreak of Covid-19. After the Asian Cup, Dennerby readied the under-17 workforce for the 2022 World Cup – he was appointed for the 2020 under-17 World Cup which was cancelled due to Covid-19 – however returned to the senior workforce for the primary spherical of the Olympic qualifiers.
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