Indian Football – AIFF to confirm the Head Coach for Men’s Team on August 1

The All India Football Federation (AIFF) will confirm the next head coach of the Indian men’s football team on August 1, after he has put the applicants from 170 to three on the shortlist.

The curriculum vitae of all three coaches was sent to the AIFF Executive Committee, which has planned an emergency meeting this Friday with a single agenda: confirm the coach.

The Indian men’s team has been without a coach since 2 July, when Manolo Marquez went separately after a year, without winning a competitive game.

The AIFF then placed an opening to which more than 170 coaches applied.

Among the remarkable foreign applicants, Petar SGRT, who defended the chances of bringing Tajikistan to the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup 2023 and Stephen Constantine, who produced India from 173 to 97 in three years during his previous Stint.

The controversial name under Indians is Khalid Jamil, who helped Aizawl at the i-League title in 2017 and Jameshedpur FC to the Indian Super League Semifinal and Super Cup final last season.

Bengal’s Santosh Trophy-winning coach Sanjoy Sen and former India Captains Shanmugam Venkatesh and Renedy Singh were also on the list.

The applications were cut to 20 coaches – 10 Indians and 10 foreigners – by Subrata Pal, the director of the national team, for the technical committee meeting on July 22.

During the meeting on Tuesday, chaired by IM Vijayan, Jamil, Constantine and Stefan Tarkovic were on the shortlist.

Tarkovic is the only new name in Indian football on the list.

A former coach of the Slovak national team of the gentlemen, the last coaching assignment of the 52-year-old was with Kyrgyzstan (men), whom he led to the Asian cup of 2023 before the side made an exit of a group stage.

India is currently at the bottom of the ranking of the group C in the third round of AFC Asian Cup qualifications, after a draw with Bangladesh and a loss for Hong Kong. It organizes Table Topper Singapore on October 9.