Big desires: Rahman monitoring the alternatives for the State crew on the Gymkhana on Monday.| Photo Credit: V.V. SUBRAHMANYAM

The beaming faces mentioned all of it at Gymkhana Ground in Secunderabad right here!

A document turn-out of about 300 younger footballers turning up for the State under-17 squad choice at Gymkhana Ground was not simply the sort of response the Telangana Football Association (TFA) officers had been anticipating.

With Sheikh Khaleel Rahman, who represented the united Andhra Pradesh seven occasions within the Santosh Trophy, being the top coach, TFA secretary G. Palguna is hoping for the much-awaited turn-around in his crew’s dream to place in place high quality footballers within the subsequent couple of years.

“In fact, all these boys are only from the twin cities. We have the selections for the district boys soon. At the end of it all, we will be pruning the genuinely talented to about 40 to 50 and give them long-term coaching with the first target being the Junior nationals in Sambalpur (MP) next month,” Rahman knowledgeable The Hindu.

“Most of the boys are inspired by the success story of Hyderabad FC in the ISL and also the fact that the City now boasts about 20 academies,” mentioned Rahman, taking day without work a busy schedule for the final three days.

“These boys have been split into teams identifying each of them position-wise and making them play matches to test their skills. There is no doubt about the abundance of talent. They only lack match practice,” mentioned Rahman, the Deputy Manager in SBI.

“Exactly for this reason, TFA is now roping in the Football Academies to start under-15 and 17 leagues soon to prepare teams for the National leagues. This, we feel, will ensure an assembly line of quality players if they are given the kind of desired exposure,” the previous midfielder mentioned.

The choice panel of P. Acharjee, Zakir Hussain, Vincent Paul, Noorul Ahmed (all AFC license holders) and Akbar Abedi monitoring the alternatives beneath the supervision of Rahman and the TAF prime officers, there may be hope of real expertise being given the prospect to dream massive.