From relegation candidates to I-League champions in a year, Chennai City proved there are more to football miracles than just Leicester City's stunning English Premier League talent in 2016.In achieving the improbable, head coach Akbar Nawas and his accomplice K. Balagumaran with showed that Singaporean trainers are skilled of producing such magical moments after leading the Indian club to the league title on Saturday.The duo are believed to be the first local coaches to win a professional football league uncovered South-east Asia. Former Tampines Rovers coach Akbar told The Straits period yesterday: "There is good satisfaction after compliant the challenge of taking more than a relegation-threatened team, and next winning the league within a year."When the 43-year-old took more than the reins last year, Chennai had three games to stave off relegation from the I-League. They beat Churchill Brothers 3-1, free 7-1 to East Bengal, previously securing safety in the same way as a 2-1 win more than Minerva Punjab in their unquestionable match.A year later, the remarkable turnaround was completed in belly of 8,000 fans at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu on Saturday in the same way as a come-from-behind 3-1 win more than Minerva as both club and head coach clinched their first league title. For Balagumaran, this is his second league title as accomplice to V. Sundram Moorthy after winning the 2013 Malaysian Super League title in the same way as the LionsXII.
A SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTThere is good satisfaction after compliant the challenge of taking more than a relegation-threatened team, and next winning the league within a year.AKBAR NAWAS, Chennai City head coach, on the I-League side's hope season.With 13 wins, four draws and three defeats, Chennai amass 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 area at the top of the 11-team league from the third reach agreement week.The period of India summarised their talent as "befitting their dominant campaign, the fulcrum of which was a sustained possession-based football".Akbar said: "Winning the title was the end result of good scouting, our attacking football philosophy, how we trained, prepared and executed our plans during the games."The club gave me the forgiveness to impart this to the players despite initial scepticism nearly whether this will be well-to-do in India."I never free sleep more than the title race because we were focused and trusted our processes - there was good synergy along with the owner, backroom staff and players. In fact, I free sleep lonely after we won, in the same way as the many phone calls and text messages coming in!"Astutely building the team as regards five Spaniards from Europe's lower leagues and former S-League star Jozef Kaplan, Akbar with 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 all department. Striker Pedro Manzi may be the league's joint-top scorer in the same way as 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 in view of that 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 in the same way as Neroca after blowing a 3-0 guide - and to the players for swine gate to his ideas."This is enormously the highlight of my career, but I hope there is more to come."That could capably be the charge as Chennai are now eligible for the 2020 AFC Champions League qualifiers, even though sources with told ST that the duo are now on the all India Football Federation's radar, in the same way as India's national coach aim 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 con of Akbar and Balagumaran.While Akbar declined to comment on speculation more than his progressive as he has one more year left on his contract, Balagumaran said: "I hope this talent shows there are good coaches from Singapore and opens the gate for more Singaporean coaches to venture abroad."If we can begin from humiliate beginnings, con hard in the same way as what we have and yet locate success, there is no defense local coaches can't hope for a job in a professional league in Asia, or perhaps puberty 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 in view of that unpolished... now they have won their first professional league title.K. BALAGUMARAN, on the humiliate backgrounds of many of their players.
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