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AIFF names Jamil men's football team coach, tenure likely to be 'two or three' years
AIFF names Jamil men's football team coach, tenure likely to be 'two or three' years

Hans India

time02-08-2025

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  • Hans India

AIFF names Jamil men's football team coach, tenure likely to be 'two or three' years

Khalid Jamil on Friday became the first Indian to become the head coach of the national football team in 13 years as he pipped Stephen Constantine and Stefan Tarkovic to grab the coveted post. The last Indian to serve as the head coach of the national men's team was Savio Medeira, who held the position from 2011 to 2012. A former India international and currently in charge of Indian Super League side Jamshedpur FC, Jamil, 48, was selected by the All India Football Federation's (AIFF) executive committee. 'The AIFF ExCo has picked Khalid Jamil as the new head coach but his tenure has not yet been decided. We will do that after discussions with him and among ourselves. We also have to discuss with him his salary,' AIFF President Kalyan Chaubey told PTI after the meeting. 'Jamil wanted a three-year tenure. Some ExCo members said it could be one year or two years. But it will be a long-term tenure, may be two or three years, and performance-based,' Chaubey said. The Executive Committee approved the appointment from a three-member shortlist submitted by the AIFF Technical Committee. The other two contenders were former India head coach Stephen Constantine and Stefan Tarkovic, who previously managed the Slovakia national team. In a statement issued by the AIFF, the governing body confirmed that Dronacharya Awardee coaches Bimal Ghosh and Armando Colaco, and Dhyan Chand Awardee Shabbir Ali, alongside Technical Committee chairperson IM Vijayan were heavily in favour of appointing an Indian coach at the helm for the first time in 13 years. 'In the presence of AIFF President Kalyan Chaubey, Vice President NA Haris, Treasurer Shri Kipa Ajay, the members of the Executive and Technical committees, along with both Dronacharya Awardee coaches Bimal Ghosh and Armando Colaco, and Dhyan Chand Awardee Shabbir Ali, the AIFF's Technical Director Syed Sabir Pasha and National Teams Director Subrata Paul presented a SWOT analysis of all the three shortlisted coaches – Khalid Jamil, Stephen Constantine, and Stefan Tarkovic,' read the statement by the AIFF.

Former India player Jamil appointed  national football team head coach
Former India player Jamil appointed  national football team head coach

Gulf Today

time01-08-2025

  • Sport
  • Gulf Today

Former India player Jamil appointed national football team head coach

The All India Football Federation (AIFF) confirmed the appointment of head coach Khalid Jamil as the new head coach of the senior India men's national football team, following the decision by the AIFF Executive Committee. The Executive Committee approved the appointment from a three-member shortlist submitted by the AIFF Technical Committee. The other two contenders were former India head coach Stephen Constantine and Stefan Tarkovic, who previously managed the Slovakia national team. In a statement issued by the AIFF, the governing body confirmed that Dronacharya Awardee coaches Bimal Ghosh and Armando Colaco, and Dhyan Chand Awardee Shabbir Ali, alongside Technical Committee chairperson IM Vijayan were heavily in favour of appointing an Indian coach at the helm for the first time in 13 years. 'In the presence of AIFF President Kalyan Chaubey, Vice President NA Haris, Treasurer Shri Kipa Ajay, the members of the Executive and Technical committees, along with both Dronacharya Awardee coaches Bimal Ghosh and Armando Colaco, and Dhyan Chand Awardee Shabbir Ali, the AIFF's Technical Director Syed Sabir Pasha and National Teams Director Subrata Paul presented a SWOT analysis of all the three shortlisted coaches – Khalid Jamil, Stephen Constantine, and Stefan Tarkovic. 'Colaco, Ghosh, and Ali expressed their views that the AIFF should prioritise selecting an Indian coach for the senior men's national team. All three opined that during their respective coaching careers, they too were once Indian coaches with no national team experience.' Indo-Asian News Service

MP Manoj Tiwary to attend 27th edition of 'Fit India Sundays on Cycle' in Delhi on June 15
MP Manoj Tiwary to attend 27th edition of 'Fit India Sundays on Cycle' in Delhi on June 15

India Gazette

time14-06-2025

  • Sport
  • India Gazette

MP Manoj Tiwary to attend 27th edition of 'Fit India Sundays on Cycle' in Delhi on June 15

New Delhi [India] June 14 (ANI): Member of Parliament from North-East Delhi and popular actor-singer Manoj Tiwari will add glitter to the 27th edition of the nationwide 'FIT India Sundays on Cycle' initiative, set to take place on June 15 at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium. The event is being organised in collaboration with the Physical Education Foundation of India (PEFI), according to a release by SAI Media. The other prominent dignitaries who will be participating in the event in Delhi are PEFI president A.K Bansal, a Dronacharya Awardee former India hockey coach, 1992 Asian Marathon champion Sunita Godara, PEFI national secretary Piyush Jain, Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Sciences professor and director (sports) Tribhuvan Ram Narayan and swimming coach at the Sonia Vihar Water Sports Club Society in Delhi Manjeet Shekhawat. The cycling drive will be organised simultaneously across more than 500 locations in India on June 15, including the capitals of all States and Union Territories, SAI Regional Centres, National Centres of Excellence (NCOEs), SAI Training Centres (STCs), Khelo India State Centres of Excellence (KISCEs), and Khelo India centres (KICs), with a probable participation of 15,000-plus citizens across various age groups. Started by Hon'ble Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports Mansukh Mandaviya in December 2024, the 'FIT India Sundays on Cycle' movement has been organised in more than 10,000 locations across the country till now with the participation of more than 3.5 lakh individuals. Previously, the cycling event witnessed participation of Indian Army jawans, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Indian Railways and prominent sports stars like Lovlina Borgohain, Sangram Singh, Shanky Singh, Nitu Ghanghas, Saweety Boora, Paris Paralympics medallists Nitesh Kumar, Manisha Ramadass, Rubina Francis and Simran Sharma (para world champion) apart from celebrities like Rahul Bose, Amit Sial, Sharvari Wagh, Madhurima Tuli and Gul Panag, to name a few. The 'Fit India Sundays on Cycle' is organised by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS), in collaboration with the Cycling Federation of India (CFI), My Bikes and MY Bharat. (ANI)

T20 Mumbai League set to be rescheduled to June 4-10
T20 Mumbai League set to be rescheduled to June 4-10

Time of India

time16-05-2025

  • Sport
  • Time of India

T20 Mumbai League set to be rescheduled to June 4-10

T20 Mumbai League (ANI Photo) MUMBAI: The delay in the conduct of the Indian Premier League due to a pause for a week has pushed back the start of the T20 Mumbai League, which is being revived after six years, by almost a week. The tournament, which was originally supposed to run from May 26 to June 8 at the Wankhede Stadium , will now be held from June 4 to June 10, with double headers every day. Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW! "The league will now be held at two venues-the Wankhede and one amongst the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, the MCA ground in BKC, or the Brabourne Stadium (in Cricket Club of India ). There will be double headers at both venues every day," a reliable source in the Mumbai Cricket Association told TOI on Friday. Eight teams will compete for the title. The auction for the League was held on May 7. Bombay Sport Exchange Ep 5: Shane Watson on how IPL gave him a lifeline & his tribute to Phil Hughes Meanwhile, former India seamer Dhawal Kulkarni is the mentor and coach of Eagle Thane Strikers, and Dronacharya Awardee Dinesh Lad, childhood coach of India's ODI captain Rohit Sharma and Shardul Thakur , is Chief Team Guide of Team Triumph Knights. Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.

Doping scandal taints junior athletics surge. Did coach Ramesh take the short cut?
Doping scandal taints junior athletics surge. Did coach Ramesh take the short cut?

India Today

time04-05-2025

  • Sport
  • India Today

Doping scandal taints junior athletics surge. Did coach Ramesh take the short cut?

The Kotak Pullela Gopichand Academy, a sprawling 10-acre high-performance centre in Hyderabad, houses an athletics academy where mornings and evenings usually reverberate with a vibrant symphony of rhythmic footfalls and gruff coaching commands. Tuesday of December 24 was no different. At least on the face of it. Beneath all the frenetic sporting activity, the academy was thrumming with a discordant institution, a beacon of national sporting dreams, had meticulously sculpted some of India's most electrifying sprinters and fluent hurdlers in recent years. A crucible of new athletic talent. Overseeing it was Dronacharya Awardee Ramesh Nagapuri, whose name is taken with reverence. Short, hurried, with a sparkling smile, he is the very architect of India's sprinting dreams, the conduit from the track to the podium for aspiring on that December day, tension coiled the air in the practice grounds with the sudden appearance of an unusual sight: officious-looking persons in stark white attire sticking out amidst the feast of colours of the athletes. Officers of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) had swooped down on the academy to probe one of coach Ramesh's most valued sprinters, a youngster whose recent 200-metre exploits had raised hopes of the birth of a national young athlete, Shanmuga Srinivas Nalubothu, seeing the NADA officials, went into panic. In an instant, the sprinter mutated into a hurdler. He propelled himself over a concrete wall and before the officials could call out or try and stop him, he disappeared into the thick foliage. The officials stood frozen in disbelief; shock writ large on their faces. Of all the many tricks athletes use to duck them, this was a first. A day later, NADA called Shanmuga and quizzed him on why he ran away on seeing them. He indicated that he did the disappearing act at the instance of Ramesh. A damning indictment of a celebrated expected, a formal complaint landed at the desk of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI), accusing the coach of complicity in making his athletes disappear rather than present themselves for NADA testing. The AFI hemmed and hawed and settled for its time-tested tactic: evasion. One top official went on a well-timed two-day leave. Another, already in the comfort of foreign shores, offered vague hearsay, admitting to hearing whispers but claiming to have seen no concrete when confronted, offered a terse denial. "I know nothing of these allegations," he said, wearing the Dronacharya Award as a shield against the accusations. "And I don't believe them. I still have my job."advertisementYes, Ramesh still has his job. And that's the current tragedy of India's junior athletics programme. Ramesh is on suspension and the programme is in suspended animation. A thick cloud of doubt now hangs over every remarkable performance in recent years. Is the slow and steady rise of Indian athletics just a mirage aided by performance-enhancing supplements?More than four months have passed since that fateful day in December when Shanmuga leaped over the wall and breached the trust of athletics fans in India. There is no proof yet that Shanmuga took banned substances either voluntarily or at the instance of coach Ramesh. But there is one inviolable fact that is preliminary indictment of both: the fact that Shanmuga publicly escaped NADA scrutiny is enough evidence that something is rotten with the junior athletics programme. Why would Shanmuga scoot at Ramesh's instance if he were clean? The answer to that one question is enough to turn the programme inside out. But in these four months, the AFI has not found time to ask itself this simple question for fear of getting the obvious so we have a situation wherein young athletes, instead of readying for the upcoming fierce European competition, are left to wonder if the person they placed their trust in is the guy who imperilled their budding careers for personal, false, lies the question - what hope remains for the future of the sport?Pargat Singh, the former Indian hockey captain and now an MLA from Punjab, believes the system is rotten with coaches constantly exploiting players and athletes. "Today's coaches only want to win," he says. "Not that they shouldn't. But the idea needs to be holistic at the junior level. Winning is a long-term battle. Doping shortens it."It also shortens the lives of athletes. Banning is just not a physical punitive action. It's a psychological blow. Some even call it a psychic amputation. Doping exacts a far graver toll on the athlete than we can imagine. It shortens the athlete's trajectory. It leaves a void which the athletes are unable to fill throughout their life, it reminds them of the NADA's suspension of Ramesh has far greater repercussions than individual humiliation. The emergence of an entire generation of athletes will now be in doubt. Previous medallists will be eyed with suspicion. So much so even the ban on the women's 100m national record holder Dutee Chand will be viewed through the same lens because she was coached by Ramesh. Should we hold those two silver medals in 2018 Jakarta to a greater scrutiny?advertisementThere's an old saying: "If you keep dealing with the devil, one day he's gonna follow you home." That's probably true in the litany of drug abuse cases that tumbled out in recent times: Sai Sangeetha, India's fastest junior quarter-miler; Jeyavindhiya Jegadish, sixth in the 400m hurdles at the Under-20 Asians; Durga Singh, Khelo India Youth Games girls' 1500m champion; V. Neha, silver medallist in the 100m and 200m at the Junior Nationals in Coimbatore; Summy, silver medallist at last year's Fed are still to come to terms with 2011, a year scarred by a rash of positive tests that followed India's triumph at the 2010 Commonwealth and Asian Games. The victorious 4x400m relay quartet tarnished by drug abuse, included names like Ashwini Akkunji, Sini Jose, and Mandeep Kaur. Back then, Ramesh served as an assistant under the disgraced Ukrainian trainer, Yuri Ogorodnik. Though he navigated those turbulent waters without formal charges, the whispers never died down. His complicity, though never proved, hung silently in the corridors of Indian shadows chased him wherever he went but his work continued as prestigious assignments fell into his lap. His legend grew as the man with the Midas touch. The disquieting past slowly receding into the backdrop as his athletes won medal after a man famed for his oracle-like intuition, the fall is a tragedy. Famed for his ability to discern nascent talent which also includes India's star hurdler, Jyothi Yarraji, at one stage, that reputation lies in tatters. His absence from the Indian contingent at the Asian U-18 in Saudi Arabia wasn't just a logistical detail but a significant indictment of this storied phone lines to Ramesh remain stubbornly silent. Dutee Chand, his creation, could only muster a hesitant defence: "My coach is clean," she insists, even though one discerns a tremor of doubt. "I don't think he would do something like this."But it is the silence from the AFI President and other senior figures that is more baffling. Hopefully, the AFI or the Sports Authority of India - the employers of Ramesh - in trying to clean their stable, just might, this time around, lay a better foundation. Within the shattered landscape of the junior athletic programme, something good might just stir once again. And athletes will run in top national and international competitions. Not from NADA teams.

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