Subject: NT India Season 6

This is the program for this season:

Week 2 23-02-2008 Misr - India 0-4
Week 3 01-03-2008 India - Panama 3-0
Week 4 08-03-2008 Bosna i Hercegovina - India 2-0
Week 5 15-03-2008 Ukraina - India 2-1
Week 6 22-03-2008 India - Indonesia 1-0
Week 7 29-03-2008 India - El Salvador 7-0
Week 8 05-04-2008 Cymru - India U21 1-0
Week 9 12-04-2008 India U21 - Norge 0-3
Week 10 19-04-2008 Peru - India U21 1-0
Week 11 26-04-2008 Bosnia - India 3-1
Week 12 03-05-2008 Ghana - India 0-9
Week 13 10-05-2008 India - Australia U21 0-2
Week 14 17-05-2008 Misr - India 0-9
Week 15 24-05-2008 Malta - India 2-2
Week 0 01-06-2008 Hayastan (Armenia) - India
Week 1 08-06-2008 Nederland U20 - India
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Our first match in the Mini World Cup:

India-Panama 3-0
click on Match
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Small loss (2-0) against a much stronger Bosnia.
Unfortunately an injury for Devang (he will be fit for the U21 WC qualifications in 3 weeks) and a red card for Sarath.

As it stands now :
Group H
1 Bosna i Hercegovina 2-6 10-0
2 India 2-3 3-2
3 Panamá 1-0 0-3
4 Ukraina 1-0 0-8
Still to play this round:
Ukraina - Panamá

Next week :
Panamá - Bosna i Hercegovina
Ukraina - India


Next week a draw against the Ukraine will be enough to claim the second place in the group and to qualify for the 1/8 finals.
If Panama wins against Ukraine tonight (18.30 hrs), even a small loss in the game next week will be enough...

Against the Ukraine some players will return from injuries (Nilay, Tungesh, Visalakshi).
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India is taking part in the qualification round for the Under 21 World Cup (U21 WC).

Program Group A :
Week 8 05-04-2008 Cymru - India U21 WC-Qualification
Week 9 12-04-2008 India - Norge U21 WC-Qualification
Week 10 19-04-2008 Peru - India U21 WC-Qualification


Norway and Peru are definitely out of our league, but we have a small chance against Cymru (Wales).
Disadvantage is that a lot of Indian U21 players are in a bad form, which makes the selection of the squad very difficult.
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Can you provide us list of players who are in U21 squad for NT India

18 players (in alphabetical order) who come in contention for a place in the squad:

GK Roberto Udayan
GK Debjit Mandyam

DEF Hekmat Priyodarshi
DEF Alvito Rutujit
DEF Noel Sathasivam
DEF Tushar Singri
DEF Jaswinder Subramanian
DEF Surjit Vidvan

MID Bhuvan Devang
MID Anil Dhanesh
MID Abdul Mahankali
MID Amandeep Tatat
MID Praveen Unmesh
MID Alvito Visalakshi

ATT Cristiano Dias
ATT Lolendra Tungesh
ATT Mario Yashodhan
ATT Harinder Yeramilli

To help me managing the NT of India, I've appointed 2 staff members :

Bhaveshrajput will be the new Scout of the NT:
he will be responsible for putting all potential NT players in the online database and maintaining the updates.

andy_bond will be the Communication assistant :
he will try to recruit new managers and guide them in the first weeks.

For the current managers there won't be big changes : with all questions you can still come to me (Seniors, Juniors, stadium, coaches, tactics etc. ).
Only single updates of possible NT players can be send to Rajputs, who will notify me if necessary.
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Congrats Bhavesh and andy...
if u guyz need any assistance from me feel free to ask....

Now tat we have started a committee.. may it last long.. long.. very long....

thanks for your support

today's match
India - Norge 0:3

Indian Defenders were not upto the mark
India's Harinder Yerramilli and Cristiano Dias were no match for Norge's substitute striker Magnus Neverdal


and most importantly Norge' Goal Keeper could have very easily been selected for in todays first world cup semi final of Soumi - England if only he was a Soumi/England citizen

Norway is just too strong for India.
In a few seasons the gap will be a lot smaller, our youngsters pulled last season are still developing.
Still the chances of pulling talented Juniors are for countries like Norway (with 220 managers) 10 times bigger.....

their goal keeper was the main problem

Their goalkeeper hardly touched the ball..

Our problem is in midfield, there are not enough players that have a combination of reasonable playmaking, pace, technique, passing, defending and stamina in U21. That's not strange, seeing as the players are still young and can develop on all that.
Also there's no Indian manager who trains midfielders particularly, so all MID-players are trained abroad.

slad used to train MID
has he changed training?

I think he is tending to defenders now, he has :
Vijai Yegammai
Douglas Mukti
Dipendu Vamsi
Lanel Mandhatri


who have defensive qualities

I think DG's doing really good job as I can see him from a newbies point of view,helping out Indian managers to make NT stronger.I already began to feel the differences between HT and SK.The match engine,the tactics,Trainings so ans so.
Thanks Bhavesh and Andy for helping me out.See ya.