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Indian Super League franchise NorthEast United FC have announced that Khalid Jamil will be their Head Coach to the first team going into the 2021/22 season.
With this official appointment by the Highlanders, Khalid Jamil will be the first-ever Indian coach to go into an Indian Super League season as a teams head coach.
44 year old Khalid Jamil was born in Kuwait City and played his first youth football in the Gulf before having to flee due to the second Gulf War. At youth level he played in Mumbai before being signed by Mahindra&Mahindra SC in 1997. After a year he left for Air India and established himself as a regular National Football League player and during this time in 2000 he got his first India call-up.
In the summer of 2001 Khalid Jamil was a much sought after player, but he stayed in Mumbai to sign for Mahindra United and not for one of the Kolkata giants. In 2007 he left for newly founded Mumbai FC and played for them for two seasons before taking over as head coach in 2009. He stayed with Mumbai FC until 2016 keeping them in the I-League with a limited budgets and then surprised everyone by signing for Aizawl FC and they went on to score an incredible I-League triumph in the 2016/17 season.
Thereafter he joined East Bengal, where he won the Calcutta Football League title but didn’t win the I-League which led to his contract ending at the end of the campaign.
After a short stint with Mohun Bagan AC, Khalid Jamil joined NorthEast United FC in 2019 as their assistant coach. Last season after the head coach Gerard Nus was fired, Khalid Jamil took over and led the team into the ISL-7 semifinals.
Undefeated in 1️⃣1️⃣ consecutive matches last season. 💪
Khalid Bhai is here to lead the way! 🙌#StrongerAsOne pic.twitter.com/bqFHDyHNxc
— NorthEast United FC (@NEUtdFC) October 23, 2021
