Subject: National Team

Sarabjith Manprasad, age: 27, height: 183 cm
value: 2 152 000 €, wage: 23 625 €
club: Hulde, country: India
divine form, formidable tactical discipline

formidable stamina, hopeless keeper
superdivine pace, divine+12 defender
excellent+2 technique, excellent playmaker
excellent passing, formidable striker

Next week he will have superdivine defending.
Looking for a tech/pass/playmaking trainer.

Great!
Indeed, now he should go to playmaker skills trainer.

I hope it will happen soon. I wish every first team players change clubs (if nescessary) before next season WCQ start. They must rebuild tactical discipline and organisation after transfers. I hate NT players transfers during important qualifications season, expecially defenders.

Manprasad for sale now !

You've done a nice job training him. Unfortunately he's too old for my team now

Elections started. I hope you will vote on me to give second chance in qualifications.

I must say it will be harder than last qualifiactions.

We have no good striker's power. Charu & Co are getting older and loosing their skills rapidly. Younger Sudhir is in high form not very often, same as Kathiravan. Ramadhin, our third young striker may be good for bench. A'm afraid I'll be forced to still use 33yo Charu...

Situation with mids and defs is safe. Keeper Kanetkar is good, superdivine keeper but with outstanding pace only. His trainer promissed me he will train him pace next season.

Not so bad, not so good in general:) Many depends on seeding groups.

Let's hope for the best

Seeding:

1. Hrvatska (16)
2. Lietuva (20)
3. Moldova (35)
4. India (58)
5. Indonesia (69)
6. Nippon (81)
7. U.A.E. (98)

Current rank in brackets.


Not so bad.
Hrvatska is strongest team in group, it will be very difficult to gain points from them.
Lietuva is strong also, but not that much as Hrvatska.
Moldova is our rival from previous qualifications (2:1 home, 2:2 away). Good team but in our range.
Indonesia is very close to us with team power.
Nippon and U.A.E. are weaker in theory.

Well, everything is possible. Like Hoodibaba said - let's hope for the best:)

I think, these 6 will be the solved your problem, within 2-3 seasons they will be good enough for NT.

Lolendra Mitra , age 21
value: 20 437 500 Rs.
wage: 285 000 Rs.
adequate form
height: 169 cm, weight: 67.4 kg,
BMI: 23.62
bookings:
formidable stamina hopeless keeper
excellent pace excellent defender
excellent technique weak playmaker
solid passing brilliant striker

Ankan Satwant , age 22
value: 35 750 000 Rs.
wage: 352 500 Rs.
divine form
height: 178 cm, weight: 77.2 kg,
BMI: 24.37
bookings:
formidable stamina unsatisfactory keeper
outstanding pace excellent defender
outstanding technique solid playmaker
weak passing brilliant striker

Alisha Bhavesh , age 21
value: 20 262 500 Rs.
wage: 191 250 Rs.
superdivine form
height: 177 cm, weight: 75.9 kg,
BMI: 24.21
bookings:
excellent stamina tragic keeper
formidable pace weak defender
formidable technique average playmaker
solid passing formidable striker

Kalyan Guru , age 22
value: 31 487 500 Rs.
wage: 325 000 Rs.
superdivine form
height: 184 cm, weight: 81 kg,
BMI: 23.94
injury: (24 days)

formidable stamina hopeless keeper
brilliant pace weak defender
formidable technique average playmaker
solid passing formidable striker

Chinmoy Qamar , age 20
value: 16 650 000 Rs.
wage: 186 250 Rs.
brilliant form
height: 180 cm, weight: 65.5 kg,
BMI: 20.2
bookings:
formidable stamina tragic keeper
outstanding pace weak defender
average technique weak playmaker
poor passing formidable striker

Sujoy Ranjeet , age 22
value: 16 637 500 Rs.
wage: 257 500 Rs.
poor form
height: 168 cm, weight: 65.3 kg,
BMI: 23.12

formidable stamina hopeless keeper
outstanding pace very good defender
formidable technique poor playmaker
solid passing formidable striker
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Yeah, pretty good prospects, expecially Satwant. But they must be trained those 2-3 seasons with no breakes. I hope they will be...

It was a good match. Almost managed a draw. Good performance. Maybe next time we'll win :)

Yes, it was close.... Many bars and crossbars, but rival scored 2 times. A little bid unlucky game for us.

Next week we play against Hrvatska, the strongest team in group, so it will be very hard to earn some points. Well, we started this WCQ not good. I hope rematch round will be more lucky for us.

Urghh... what a unlucky game for us!:(

Under this circumstances I think qualifications are over for our team. I didn't expected very much, but I'm sad that match engine "helped" us such a way.

It's done anyway, so we must start think about next qualifications. 4th or 5th or 6th position in group it doesn't matter.
In my opinion next generation of players have bigger chance than present generation. Therefore in remaining matches I'm going to field next WCQ players. Our oldest stars must retire, they don't help us then.

India - Hrvatska 2:2

Nice result against much stronger rival with saved penalty at the end of the match. It changes nothing with our situation, but it is always nice to gain point from strongest team in group.

Two matches remaining - both away against Lietuva and Moldova

1. Lietuva 12 9 2 1 42-14 29
2. Moldova 12 9 2 1 43-16 29
3. Hrvatska 12 9 1 2 54-12 28
4. India 12 5 1 6 23-24 16
5. Indonesia 12 4 0 8 14-27 12
6. Nippon 12 2 1 9 9-37 7
7. U.A.E. 12 0 1 11 0-55 1

We finished WCQ. It looks like we've done our best. 4th place isn't bad. Lietuva, Moldova and Hrvatska were to strong for us. I can say we destroyed strongest team in group - Hrvatska by drawing them last match.

I'm going to step down from my position. After dozen seasons with NTs I need to rest for a while from serious work with NT.

Yeah it was very tough this season. Thanks for your help.

Thanks to everyone here for 4 seasons with India NT. It was a great pleasure to be here with all of you. I hope next NT coach will keep good work and maybe more.

I will stay on forum as a fan and I'll try to help India by training next players if such opportunity will happen.

Go India!