This is in response to the appointment of Brahmanand Sankwalkar as indicated in Herald’s Café dated 10th of his month. While congratulating Brahmanand for appointing him as Chairman of GFDC which is a right choice but I disagree with him when he said “he would not consider getting anyone from abroad for the post of Technical Director”.
In 1966 when Sesa Goa’s big man Mr. Conzen a German, came to take me for Sesa, Dr. Gustavo Monteiro who had vast experience of football as the president of Goa Football Association, told Conzen that “if you want to develop your Sesa Goa football nicely then bring one coach even a mediocre level from Germany and then you see the change in your team. Further he said there are no coaches in India to develop our soccer”.
In front of Gulf soccer India is nothing, Gulf and Middle East including other Arab countries developed their soccer only when they recruited Coaches from abroad namely West and South America. Their system and techniques and discipline are totally different where we cannot compete. I have seen very little of them in Kuwait and from there I realized what a vast difference between Coaches from abroad and our Coaches. With the assistance of Western and South American Coaches the Arabs reached to Olympics and World Cups while we are still dreaming.
Hence, I request my friend Brahmanand to apply his mind carefully on hiring a technical director from abroad.
A.Veronica Fernandes.