The Hindu featured interview with Manipur footballer Moirangthem Gouramangi

In an interview featured in The Hindu, Moirangthem Goiuramangi, a native of Sekmai Manipur, expressed the need of grass root level training to improve the quality of Indian Football. The Manipur

Manipur player Moirangthem Gouramangi featured in The Hindu. Photo: K.V. Srinivasan (Hindu)

Manipur player Moirangthem Gouramangi featured in The Hindu. Photo: K.V. Srinivasan (Hindu)

In an interview featured in The Hindu, Moirangthem Goiuramangi, a native of Sekmai Manipur, expressed the need of grass root level training to improve the quality of Indian Football.

The Manipur native who currently played for Pune City FC opined that the atmosphere in ISL was completely different, as most of the players had played at the highest level and their match-awareness were more.

Moiranthem Gouramangi made his debut for India way back in 2006. Capped 71 times by the national team, the young Manipuri, a product of the Tata Football Academy, plied his trade in the National Football League, then in the re-branded I-League, and now plays in the Indian Super League (ISL) for Pune City FC. The 29-year-old spoke about this transition, and the role of ISL in shaping India’s football future.

Original excerpts of the interview featured in Hindu:

This is your second year in the ISL. How different have the experiences been as compared to your I-League days?

I don’t think we can compare the two. We can’t forget the contribution the I-League has made. I would say, without the I-League there wouldn’t be ISL. Indian football is in transition. One can’t completely depend on the ISL to turn things around overnight. There are lots of positives though. I-League has its limitations budget-wise. There are financial restrictions. It is not as big as what we are seeing today [ISL].

But the ISL has brought in foreign players, and coaches with different styles. In that sense, how has the on-field game evolved?

Technically better. In I-League too we had foreigners. But in ISL, the atmosphere is completely different. Most of them have played at the highest level and their match-awareness is more. So is the tempo of the game. This kind of exposure wasn’t there before. But we [Indians] are not very far behind. We can definitely do well. But we don’t have the necessary structures in place. We need more grassroots-level training.

For a young Indian player, how beneficial can the ISL be?

I’ll tell you from my own experience. I have been to countries like Australia, Denmark, Ukraine. There, I had to train like a foreigner. I mean, I had to adapt to their culture. Now, everything is coming to our country. Our players need not feel lonely here. It’s a good opportunity and the younger generation should take it seriously.

Can you give a realistic time-frame for things to improve?

At least another two years [for some signs to emerge].

What has been the biggest takeaway for you from the ISL?

I am from the Northeast. I never expected to go to Mumbai, Chennai and even Pune — not so popular for football — and see 30,000 people come and watch us play. We never experienced this before. Bringing the crowds back to the stadium has been the biggest thing and the attendance is increasing day by day. Nobody wants to play in empty stadiums. I feel this is only the beginning [of better things to come].

Source: The Hindu

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Eligible Candidates list for DBT-NE-JRF, interview to be held on 27th May

NOTICE 24.05.2011 No.MU/BCH/LRS/DBT-NE-PRO/JRF: It is to notify that the following candidates are eligible to appear at the interview to be held on May 27, 2011 at 11am in the office… Read more »

NOTICE
24.05.2011

No.MU/BCH/LRS/DBT-NE-PRO/JRF: It is to notify that the following candidates are eligible to appear at the interview to be held on May 27, 2011 at 11am in the office chamber of the Principal Investigator for appointment of a Junior Research Fellow in the project “North Eastern origin silk protein based matrices and nano/microparticles for biomedical applications” under the Twinning Program for the North-East sponsored by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India:

Dr. L. Rupachandra Singh
Principal Investigator

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