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Gift Raikhan resigns as Aizawl FC head coach!

Manipuri Gift Raikhan has handed in his own resignation as head coach to former I-League champions Aizawl FC after his sides 0-1 loss to Indian Arrows.

Aizawl FC, who only in December 2018 had regained the Mizoram Premier League title, have been having a tough campaign in the 2018/19 I-League.

After 11 matches the club from Mizoram have only nine points to their name and are in 10th position just above bottom-placed Shillong Lajong FC.

Gift Raikhan had started his coaching career with the youth teams of Pune FC after having ended his playing career with the club and then even became the assistant coach of the first team.

In 2015, Gift Raikhan returned to his native Manipur to become the head coach of then Second Division League side NEROCA FC and them in 201 he got promoted to the I-League.

Last season in NEROCA’s premier top tier appearance the club finished runners-up to champions Minerva Punjab FC, but at the end of the season Gift Raikhan want to leave for a new challenge.

That challenge Gift Raikhan found in Aizawl FC but despite winning in the MPL, the going was tough in the I-League and now he resigns.

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