One for the album: Mohun Bagan’s Ferrando takes a selfie with different coaches and gamers on the ISL media day.| Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI

Most of the coaches of various Indian Super League golf equipment function beneath a faux stress that forces them to go for international forwards whereas ignoring the Indian strikers with good profile, feels the Kerala Blasters head coach Ivan Vukomanovic. The Serbian coach stated this whereas assessing the mentality of the coaches of the nation’s high league as his crew ready for a recent title hunt forward of the ISL-10.

Blasters kick off their ISL marketing campaign on September 21 by internet hosting Bengaluru FC, the crew towards which they controversially walked out within the playoffs final season.

With India worldwide Ishan Pandita becoming a member of the aspect, Vukomanovic stated his membership has at all times promoted and nurtured Indian abilities. “Many coaches (in ISL) have the tendency of not preferring Indian forwards because of some fake pressure to find results. Most of the teams sign foreign strikers for that. And because of this fake pressure most of the coaches were not allowing Indian forwards with good profiles enough minutes on the ground,” stated Vukomanovic in the course of the ISL media day on Wednesday.

With the ISL title nonetheless eluding Blasters, Vukomanovic stated the membership has not been fortunate each time it performed the finals (on three events in 2014, 2016 and 2022).

Luck issue

“Once you reach the final, it is about one game and 90 or 120 minutes and then the tie-breaker where it is more about luck or some individual motivation. We have so many teams around the world who have lost the final many times. It is part of the sport and we have to deal with it,” stated Vukomanovic, who remains to be serving the 10-match ban imposed on him after the forfeiture of the BFC match.