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The scrutiny of the applications for the coach of the Indian football team has been completed.
Speaking to The Indian Express, C R Viswanathan, chairman of the technical committee said, 8220;I have gone through the 15 applications and have prepared my report which I will submit to the president of the All India Football Federation AIFF, P R Dasmunsi when he returns from Bangladesh.8221;
According to him once Dasmunsi goes through the report, the four-member committee that was constituted will sit on September 30 and finalise the new coach.
The committee consists of C R Viswanathan, Chuni Goswami, P K Banerjee and Derek D8217;Souza.
When contacted Albert Colaco, general secretary of the AIFF said that they have received few applications for the post of the technical director.
8220;I cannot give the names of those who have applied and we should be in a position to announce the name by the end of the month along with that of the coach,8221; he added.
Of the two known Bengal faces who have submitted their CVs, Subrata Bhattacharya said he would want a stint 8220;till the Asian Games.8221;
Talking to The Indian Express, he explained that he could easily lift the performance of the Indian team with a 8220;mix of old and new footballers8221;. He said he wasn8217;t opposed to a foreign technical director.
Another coach, Syed Nayeemuddin, said the usual practice of camps was good. 8220;Maybe some camps even out of the country-8221; As for the technical director, he felt an Indian could do the job well enough. PK Banerjee was a name on the lips of both, though the AIFF it seems has decided on foreign flavour.
In contention:
Subarta Bhattacharya, Satheevan Balan, M Peethambaram, KP Sethumadhavan, M Ratan Kumar Singh, Prasantha Banerjee, Naeemuddin, Rajeev PK, K Suresh Babu, Jahar Das, Ekendra Singh, Shyamal Bannerjee, Gurcharan Singh Parmar, Birbal Singh and Debashish Mukherjee.
