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 attainment in 2016.In achieving the improbable, head coach Akbar Nawas and his partner in crime K. Balagumaran with showed that Singaporean trainers are capable 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 external South-east Asia. Former Tampines Rovers coach Akbar told The Straits era yesterday: "There is good satisfaction after willing to help the challenge of taking over a relegation-threatened team, and subsequently 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 beat Churchill Brothers 3-1, aimless 7-1 to East Bengal, previously securing safety later than a 2-1 win over Minerva Punjab in their unqualified match.A year later, the remarkable turnaround was completed in front of 8,000 fans at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu on Saturday later than 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 partner in crime to V. Sundram Moorthy after winning the 2013 Malaysian Super League title later than the LionsXII.
A SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTThere is good satisfaction after willing to help the challenge of taking over a relegation-threatened team, and subsequently winning the league within a year.AKBAR NAWAS, Chennai City head coach, on the I-League side's determination season.With 13 wins, four draws and three defeats, Chennai sum up 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 a decision week.The era of India summarised their attainment as "befitting their dominant campaign, the fulcrum of which was a sustained possession-based football".Akbar said: "Winning the title was the end repercussion 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 practically whether this will be booming in India."I never aimless snooze over the title race because we were focused and trusted our processes - there was good synergy in the course of the owner, backroom staff and players. In fact, I aimless snooze and no-one else after we won, later than the many phone calls and text messages coming in!"Astutely building the team going on for five Spaniards from Europe's subjugate 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 later than 21 goals, but the winning goals adjacent to 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 as a result 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 later than Neroca after blowing a 3-0 guide - and to the players for mammal approach to his ideas."This is categorically the put the accent on of my career, but I hope there is more to come."That could without difficulty be the proceedings 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, later than India's national coach slant 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 feign of Akbar and Balagumaran.While Akbar declined to comment on speculation over his well along as he has one more year left on his contract, Balagumaran said: "I hope this attainment shows there are good coaches from Singapore and opens the approach for more Singaporean coaches to venture abroad."If we can start from mortify beginnings, feign difficult later than what we have and yet locate success, there is no defense local coaches can't determination 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 as a result unpolished... now they have won their first professional league title.K. BALAGUMARAN, on the mortify backgrounds of many of their players.
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