Struggle, yet no interest: The Manolo Marquez, India and FC Goa triangle brings up endless issues

For his most memorable year responsible for the men’s public group, Marquez will partition his experience as the main mentor of FC Goa in the Indian Super Association.

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A month after the inelegant terminating of Igor Stimac, the All India Football League on Saturday delegated Manolo Marquez as the lead trainer of the Indian senior men’s public group.

From the get go, Marquez has all the earmarks of being a decent pick for the post. He has enjoyed four years in India as mentor with different Indian Super Association clubs.

The Spanish public previously came to India as a lead trainer for Hyderabad FC in the 2020-’21 season. The next year, he drove the Nizams to their very first Indian Super Association title, prior to confronting a semi-last exit in the 2022-’23 season.

In June 2023, he was roped in by FC Goa and he drove the group to a third-place finish in the association in the wake of beginning the season with a 12-match unbeaten run.

Marquez, named as the Indian mentor on a three-year bargain, has a noteworthy CV in the nation and has a decent record in prepping more youthful players. Be that as it may, there’s a trick.

For the first year in quite a while three-year contract as the public group’s lead trainer – the 2024-’25 season – the 55-year-old from Barcelona won’t be related with the Indian public group on a full-time premise.

All things considered, Marquez will keep on being the lead trainer of FC Goa for the impending Indian Super Association season and will shuffle between the two jobs.

Doubtlessly, there’s an issue in this? The AIFF appears to have disregarded it or rather, have attempted to totally overlook it. All things considered, obliviousness is euphoria.

“I see no issue of irreconcilable circumstance,” M Satyanarayan, the acting secretary general of the public body was cited as saying by Sportstar.

Once more, assuming that the beyond couple of months has shown us anything, it is the way that the AIFF has made a propensity for declining to see issues. For instance, how could they have expanded Stimac’s agreement in October without an end proviso in the event that they had seen any difficulties?

Marquez, in his four-year stay in India plays had a gigantic impact in fostering a youthful detachment of players including Liston Colaco, Nikhil Poojary, Aakash Mishra and Jay Gupta – every one of whom have proceeded to wear the India tones.

Mishra, who is as of now playing for Mumbai City FC, and Gupta – FC Goa’s most recent youthful sensation – play similarly situated. Both are gifted and convenient players by their own doing. Be that as it may, on the off chance that Gupta is liked for the Indian group, could Mishra feel he passed up a great opportunity since he didn’t play for a specific club?

Doubtlessly expressing that there is no irreconcilable situation won’t help in lessening any player enmity that might emerge along these lines.

One of the serious issues looked by Stimac during his stretch with the Blue Tigers was getting players from the clubs for public camps. The past public lead trainer Stephen Constantine had a similar test. Marquez and FC Goa were among the groups reluctant to deliver players in front of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.