Indians need to improve in technical ability, says Stimac

‘Only by playing over 40 games a season, they can compete against the best’

The national coach Igor Stimac said there are not enough players with requisite technical ability to make the senior national football team competitive enough. Speaking to the media on Friday, following India’s recently concluded World Cup qualification campaign, Stimac said that the stake-holders of Indian football should look at this fact and devise a system that would help Indian footballers have enough games to grow in terms of technical ability. “To be honest there are not many players with the technical ability. As a national team we suffer all the weaknesses that are apparent in the country’s top league, the ISL. This happens when most of the important positions in the team are occupied by foreign players. This definitely limits the choice when we go to select the Indian players,” Stimac said.