This is really a good news for Indian football.Will help in popularization of the game. I hope this success doesn't make him egoist like our tennis stars
Re: Good News
by tuleswar nath on Jul 05, 2012 04:51 PM
Relax. Chettri will only play in the B team. No way he will get chance in the first team. Anyway it will be good experience for him.
i will be joining barcelona fc very soon. all the deals are done. manchester united, real madrid and bayern munich also wanted me in their team. but in the end barcelona agreed to pay more. i hope i can make them (messi,iniesta, xavi,puyol) learn much more from me.
Re: three cheers for me
by Venugopalan on Jul 05, 2012 02:00 PM
mr asif khaN. I can understand your problem..any one watching euro12 continuously should have the same hallucinations...do not worry..after some time it will go away..just relax..
Taller footballers should play for India. Height is definitely a big parameter when playing physically tough games like football. You stand a chance only if you are tall and of course strong enough to overpower defenders in Europe. Anyways good luck to Chettri. Lets hope more talented and taller footballers will get chances to play in the top leagues and bring back their experience to better Indian Football which is below par at this time ( Just look at pathetic state of iLeague where apart from Some teams like East Bengal , Palian Arrows and Lajong who play quality football others are just pushovers.
Re: We should sent taller footballers to Europe
by Arun N on Jul 05, 2012 01:00 PM
how tall is messi,iniesta,xavi,mata and silva??they are the world and european champions
Re: Re: We should sent taller footballers to Europe
by JELJO JOSE on Jul 05, 2012 01:10 PM
Short height should be compensated by exceptional talent. Messi, Iniesta Xavi are all fantastic magicians with the ball. All they ever did was play football. Its what I mean. Its hard to find exceptionally talented players in India.They are born but not in India. But you can make good tall talented players and its after all a team game.
Re: Re: We should sent taller footballers to Europe
by Rajesh gupta on Jul 05, 2012 01:28 PM
maradona may not be tall but most of his team mates were. This helps maradona scoring goals and also setting up goals for his team. height is definately required to get good headers above te defenders in physically demanding game like football.
Re: We should sent taller footballers to Europe
by om shanti on Jul 05, 2012 12:59 PM
Have you checked the I-league team positions ?
On your second point: Forwards/strikers are shortest and defenders/goal keepers are tallest in a foot ball team.Short people cand dribble and move fast in the opposition goal mouth whereas defenders need height to tackle/deflect attacks..
Re: Re: We should sent taller footballers to Europe
by JELJO JOSE on Jul 05, 2012 01:05 PM
Yeah true only in iLeage its like this. But do you think a Jeje or Chettri can dribble past a Carlos Puyol or Pique. Its like Cargo Container vs Maruti Mini 800
Re: Re: We should sent taller footballers to Europe
by JELJO JOSE on Jul 05, 2012 01:15 PM
Football played by top guns Dempo, Churchill Brothers is barbaric to say the least. I have followed games of iLeague and from what i have seen only these 3 teams play good quality possession football with a great degree of accuracy rather than stroke of luck.
Re: Re: We should sent taller footballers to Europe
by JELJO JOSE on Jul 05, 2012 01:16 PM
Football played by top guns Dempo, Churchill Brothers is barbaric to say the least. I have followed games of iLeague and from what i have seen only these 3 teams play good quality possession football with a great degree of accuracy rather than stroke of luck.
This is very good news for Indian football. I wish Chhetri loads of success. His success will invite other clubs to look at the Indian football talent and think of getting them in their clubs. This will encourage more and more people to endorse football.
