A professional football coach is now being forced and pressured by the AIFF to take one particular individual as the team manager for the India U-15 team at the FIFA U-15 World Cup & Festival because of peopleโs opinions on Instagram.
This is another new low for the AIFF.
Here are the results when a similar stunt was pulled for the AFC Futsal Asian Cup 2024 qualifiers.
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Just talked to @dsood92 sir about the new signing Diamond Singh
Diamond Singh age is 16 and his documents are genuine and he has never played for Sudeva
And his real age is 16
So his allegations of Age 19 is baseless.
Diamond Singh is not age fraud
Sunil Chhetri calls Jamshedpur FCโs exit from the ISL a major setback for Indian football. He urges the owners to โpick heart over headโ and reconsider their decision.
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It takes a lot to be a stakeholder in Indian football. It has been like that for some time now. But when everything around looks like it will crumble, you bank on family to hold on to each other. And more often than not, it is the elders in the house that you turn to, for assurance. All of you at the TATA Group, through TFA first, and then @JamshedpurFC, have been one of our pillars.
To know that Jamshedpur has folded first team operations is a punch to the gut. The players and staff will be without clubs, and they might find one by the end of it all. The League will have a team less, but the season will go on. However, not having the TATA group involved in the top tier of Indian football - that would be a disaster with no alternative.
I understand that some tough decisions in sport are down to what makes sense in the board room. But I can only request and hope that the think tank at TATA picks their heart over head and reconsiders this call. It might be a poor business decision, but it will be the one Indian football needs the most at this hour.
Jamshedpur FC players have issued an emotional appeal to the Tata Group's top leadership, urging them to reconsider their reported decision of Jamshedpur FC's exit.
In a heartfelt statement, the players said the club is "the heart and soul of Indian football" and pleaded that its future be protected.
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