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The All India Football Federation general secretary Kushal Das yesterday sat down with the media to talk about the situation in Indian club football.
The main question is what is in the FIFA-AFC report and Kushal Das said, “There are many things in the AFC-FIFA roadmap which cannot be implemented right now. That is why we have been trying to slowly implement it.”
And there are numerous points which are normal in international club football markets, but aren’t for Indian football and aren’t easy to implement according to the AIFF GS.
“After this report was sent by the AFC, we had pointed out to them that some of these recommendations are difficult to implement at this point of time. To say that the club should own their own stadium is not feasible for both I-League and ISL clubs. Therefore we have to tell FIFA that this recommendation is not practical,” Das said.
And then there was the issue of the AIFF and their contract with FSDL. “That is again a crazy thing to say. What exactly do you mean by resetting? How will you renegotiate (the agreement)? Do you know the implications of that? Suppose they (FSDL) say, ‘we are not renegotiating, we are moving away’. Then what happens?”
Kushal Das was also critical about external experts being a part of a ‘League Transition Commission’. “The AIFF and the people who are in the ecosystem are far more qualified to find that solution rather than getting people from outside. While setting up a commission is one of the requirements, you have to see what is the best solution going forward and we are absolutely in the process of finding that solution.”
The next steps would be to speak internally within Indian football and also interact with FIFA and the AFC to see what is the best road forward.
Times remain interesting in Indian football…
