Twist and turn of CFL 2019

It seems Indian football is moving against all the usual football psychologies and techniques, upon which the top teams of the world are relying. The recent results of ‘Calcutta Football League’ (CFL) indeed put the pundits of Indian as well as world football in a great dilemma. Toppling almost every tactics and methods of the top class foreign coaches, who have come to coach the big clubs of Kolkata, few Bengali coaches surprised everybody in 2019 CFL. Most importantly amongst those Bengali coaches there are a few who can never be regarded as good coaches because of their lack of coaching sense. Simply relying upon the old method which is all about running and do not have any contact with tactical intelligence, they have put the big clubs’ officials in a jigsaw. In any EPL or Spanish league match we can quite clearly see the formation of a respective team coach and according to the formation of one team the other draws the counter formation. And the competent one gets the reward of earning maximum points out of a match.

Yet, in Indian scenario everything seem to be falling apart and as narrated above proving every prediction wrong of the football experts, Bengali coaches are successfully making their marks in CFL history.  The CFL 2019 perhaps be remembered for its dramatic and unexpected defeats of big clubs like East Bengal, Mohun Bagan and Md. Sporting to clubs like George Telegraph, Aryans, Peerless etc. It is indeed a very unfamiliar story of CFL where renowned clubs were so often defeated by relatively small clubs of Kolkata in any particular season. Besides, this season the two giants of Kolkata football recruited high profile foreign coaches and a bunch of European players. But, despite all their possible measurements to do well in the ongoing CFL and forthcoming I-League, the two big clubs have failed to justify their efforts so far.

Anyway, here the question arises if the method of Indian football really differs from all other top countries football philosophy. Although there is no clean-cut answer to this question but for sure considering the present phenomenon of CFL football intellectuals are forced to ponder upon this question.