Santosh Trophy 2011 | Kerala knocked out by Manipur

any updates?

all the best kerala.

Go Kerala.. Hope to see in quarter finals....
the semi & final....... All the best..

plz update....plz plz plz

breath taking match, cmn kerala, cmn

can anyone share the latest update..??
which channel gives the live telecast..??

Kerala 0-0 Manipur is the latest we have heard. First half of Extra Time has been played.

No channel is updating on the scores. All busy with Kerala election results! :(

Could you please update the final score???

any news? what happens?

Tie breaker... Waiting for final result!

Please someone update me?

its look like election result????

any updates ,make it fast its breath taking

update it soon ,,its really breath taking

keralam thottu :(

PLEASE GIVE SCORE LINE

Ohh in sudden death..............!!!!!!!!!

wht happend, wher iz our naughty strikers? They distroy our hope. Ho god..............

Kerala team is very good and young. but still they should have select Asif sahir or NP Pradeep or any other experianced player to get more stronger and experianced team .... The politics is screwing kerala foot ball. this lose should be a lesson for all.

i thnk thiz is d death of kerala footballa. Who will take the responsiblity of kerala's failed. Strikers....., coach....,selectores........?!?! Kerala football fanz is upset n felt really sad abt d result. Oh god, U dn't try to kill d kerala football plz, k,

suddendeath score 7-6

Regulataion time 0-0
extra time 0-0
penalty shoot out 4-4
suddendeath 7-6

Poor coaches who can't manage the talent are to blame. And trying to be cooks as well as coaches don't help. Bring on someone like Chathunni once and see if that can make a difference. And BTW, Santhosh Trophy itself doesn't have any relevance IMO. Move on to club football and talent would flourish.

fans are very very upset with kerala team's performance,please dont send the same team for the next year ,i recommend dont send team for next year's santosh trophy tournament,why sending team to play first round matches,better conduct all kerala football tournament instead of that,if the team wants to improve better find consistent young players .if the football needs to survive in kerala better start from grass root level,who is interested in football these days,i dont know what the selectors are doing ,i request the selector's better leave or find good players,i am sure that the same team and same coach and selectors will continue.Alsoin trivandrum all league matches ie a division,b division etc are conducted for namesake only,the standards of referees in these tournaments are teribble
the clubs of kerala is also in same condition,viva kerala also trying to survive for the next season
the time of Asif sahir or NP Pradeep or naushad are gone and we need players like pappachan,sathyan ,vijayan etc

no one is interested in football

Hi chjp,
I cant agree to the fact Vijayan or papachan will be able to do anything extra ordinary here. They were good players but the reason for kerala players failure is because of the changing Indian football. Most of the manipur players are trained from TFA and have experience in playing I league, where as very few in Kerala team had played I league. Kerala football association is not changing according to the changing football arena in India. If we need to improve football in kerala, improve the state league and district league. Everyone in Kerala has interest in football but no one is coming forward to take the resposibility.

definitly going thru bad patch. NE boys r playing good football now a days. We have no good teams. Coahes no plan to bring good talent in to fore. not concentrating in u14 U12 U18 etc.
Pathetic
KFA is a big failure. get out mather. bring professionlisam

Football is dead in Kerala, time to rethink.

Hi BK, I fully agree with you. Everyone in Kerala has interest in football but no one is coming forward to take the resposibility. Not only in kerala, all over India, now more and more peoples are supporting football and they do watch English Premier league. In India, they can easily plan and merket football well than cricket becouse football is a magic and has soul. But these beggers association wont do anything , our fate.

plz add more comments. We discuss abt the weakness of our football. If u r a football lover we must try to change our football.

please don't play football, just watch and enjoy football from europe/south america.

India will remain a football laggard until the “zero infrastructure” problem is addressed by the authorities, according to National coach Bob Houghton, who feels the country’s participation in Asian Cup after 27 years will help to change things.

Houghton lamented that things proceed in the country at a slow pace and there was no result of economic growth in football infrastructure.

“You are talking about a country that has zero football infrastructure. We have, I think, one stadium in the whole of the country that meets the criteria to host a World Cup qualifier and that’s in Chennai, where there is no football and it’s an athletics stadium,” Houghton said.

“We have no training facilities — and I mean that — which is why when we get the national team together we have to go outside the country to find somewhere to train. If you have no infrastructure then it’s almost impossible to organise a league because there are no grounds to play the matches.

“Our matches kick off at 3 o’ clock in the afternoon and are played on surfaces that no self—respecting top player would play on and in 35 degrees of heat at least. Therefore, the games are very slow and maybe players run three or four kms compared with the 10 or 11 you’ve got to do when you come to Asian Cup,” Houghton told the official AFC website.

“The AFC President came to India three years ago and said India is 100 years behind and then he came last year and said nothing has changed. I don’t know how long or how many times people have got to say that to get the authorities to come to grips with it but it’s not being done,” he said.

The Englishman who took charge in mid 2006, however, is confident that football landscape in India is set to change after the Asian Cup participation, the first time after 1984.

“I think there is a determination now in the country, from the AFC, from FIFA that Indian football needs to move on.

I don’t think people will throw their hands in the air and give up. I think people will do the opposite and people will sit down and focus on what is fundamentally wrong with the game in India and how do we change it.

“I genuinely believe that being in the Asian Cup will move everything on,” he said.

Houghton said the first step to lift Indian football is to address the acute lack of infrastructure and other things can wait.

“The first step has got to be infrastructure. The fact we haven’t got any good development programmes or coach education programmes can be changed, you can force clubs to start working with under 19s, under 17s and under 14s. That just needs the political will to start it.

“But you can’t build infrastructure overnight, it takes a definite commitment. We have had some serious talks about it while we have been in Doha but unless they move on, the game won’t move forward,” said Houghton.

Houghton’s previous work as coach of China often leads to comparisons being made between the state of football in the two countries given the similar levels of economic growth within the two burgeoning powers.

But the 63—year—old Englishman said while China has state—of—the—art infrastructure, India’s economic growth has not translated in building football infrastructure.

“People consistently make the economic comparisons because there has been double—digit growth in both countries for several years but if you’re in China you can believe it because you can see the infrastructure that is evidence of that.

“But in India, in football terms, there has been absolutely no result of economic growth, no stadiums built or any infrastructure in the sport. There can be no comparison.

Even at grassroots level, the comparison can’t be made. China is a light year ahead of India,” Houghton said.

“So Denmark can qualify for the World Cup with three million people, Saudi Arabia can qualify for four straight World Cups but that’s not the issue. The issue is what you are doing with the players you have got,” he said.

kutty

see wat happened to houghton, he was thrown out. :(

i think after a long gap Indian team was slowly getting better under him, i don't know the issues with him and federation but felt he was a good thing that happened to Indian football

Its a shame for a state which has produced great stalwarts in all departments of sports. Such a sad state of affairs.
Kerala is not in the thick of events. Everywhere club football has changed the way talent is organized and channeled.

NE(MANIPUR) RULEZ IN SPORTS...ITS HIGH TIME MAINLAND LEARN SOMETHING FRM MANIPUR...SALUTE MANIPUR-STATE...

@ subs Oh sheri anna !

I would like to know more detais of yester year players who have contributed their best to boost the image of Kerala football.I believe all the football fans and officials have forgot them.To name few like KP.Williams,Jaffer,and others These players put the foundation for Kerala in National scene by winning the coveted Santosh trophy in 1973 for first time.

They did their best and not left Kerala inspite of getting better offer from other states on those days .

Write the best of them so as the new generation know them