From relegation candidates to I-League champions in a year, Chennai City proved there are more to football miracles than just Leicester City's startling English Premier League capability in 2016.In achieving the improbable, head coach Akbar Nawas and his assistant K. Balagumaran next showed that Singaporean trainers are clever of producing such magical moments after leading the Indian club to the league title upon Saturday.The duo are believed to be the first local coaches to win a professional football league outside South-east Asia. Former Tampines Rovers coach Akbar told The Straits become old yesterday: "There is great satisfaction after helpful the challenge of taking over a relegation-threatened team, and later winning the league within a year."When the 43-year-old took over the reins last year, Chennai had three games to stave off relegation from the I-League. They emphasis Churchill Brothers 3-1, at a loose end 7-1 to East Bengal, before securing safety gone a 2-1 win over Minerva Punjab in their conclusive match.A year later, the remarkable turnaround was completed in front of 8,000 fans at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu upon Saturday gone a come-from-behind 3-1 win over Minerva as both club and head coach clinched their first league title. For Balagumaran, this is his second league title as assistant to V. Sundram Moorthy after winning the 2013 Malaysian Super League title gone the LionsXII.
A SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTThere is great satisfaction after helpful the challenge of taking over a relegation-threatened team, and later winning the league within a year.AKBAR NAWAS, Chennai City head coach, upon the I-League side's aim season.With 13 wins, four draws and three defeats, Chennai total 43 points, one more than second-placed East Bengal. And they did it in style, scoring 48 goals in 20 matches, and never relinquishing their place at the top of the 11-team league from the third say yes week.The become old of India summarised their capability as "befitting their dominant campaign, the fulcrum of which was a sustained possession-based football".Akbar said: "Winning the title was the end outcome of good scouting, our attacking football philosophy, how we trained, prepared and executed our plans during the games."The club gave me the freedom to impart this to the players despite initial scepticism about whether this will be well-to-do in India."I never at a loose end snooze over the title race because we were focused and trusted our processes - there was great synergy accompanied by the owner, backroom staff and players. In fact, I at a loose end snooze on your own after we won, gone the many phone calls and text messages coming in!"Astutely building the team vis--vis five Spaniards from Europe's humiliate leagues and former S-League star Jozef Kaplan, Akbar next made room for local talents to shine.
Incredibly, Chennai won the league without a single Indian international in their squad. Yet, the goals flowed from every department. Striker Pedro Manzi may be the league's joint-top scorer gone 21 goals, but the winning goals neighboring Minerva came from 20-year-old centre-back Gaurav Bora.Balagumaran said: "When we got here, the players we had were not from football academies, they were from the streets and therefore unpolished."Many of them are playing in their first professional season and now they have won their first professional league title."Credit has to go to Akbar for his attacking philosophy because defending was not our strength - we drew 3-3 gone Neroca after blowing a 3-0 guide - and to the players for swine gain access to to his ideas."This is no question the draw attention to of my career, but I hope there is more to come."That could without difficulty be the clash as Chennai are now eligible for the 2020 AFC Champions League qualifiers, while sources next told ST that the duo are now upon the every India Football Federation's radar, gone India's national coach incline currently vacant.Representatives from Swiss club FC Basel, who have a 26 per cent equity stake in the Indian club, were at Chennai's coronation and are said to be impressed by the piece of legislation of Akbar and Balagumaran.While Akbar declined to comment upon speculation over his vanguard as he has one more year left upon his contract, Balagumaran said: "I hope this capability shows there are good coaches from Singapore and opens the gain access to for more Singaporean coaches to venture abroad."If we can start from deflate beginnings, piece of legislation hard gone what we have and yet locate success, there is no reason local coaches can't aim for a job in a professional league in Asia, or perhaps teenage years teams in Europe."PUTTING THE SHINE ONWhen we got here, the players we had were not from football academies, they were from the streets and therefore unpolished... now they have won their first professional league title.K. BALAGUMARAN, upon the deflate backgrounds of many of their players.
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