From relegation candidates to I-League champions in a year, Chennai City proved there are more to football miracles than just Leicester City's astonishing English Premier League completion in 2016.In achieving the improbable, head coach Akbar Nawas and his partner in crime K. Balagumaran plus showed that Singaporean trainers are intelligent of producing such magical moments after leading the Indian club to the league title upon Saturday.The duo are believed to be the first local coaches to win a professional football league outside South-east Asia. Former Tampines Rovers coach Akbar told The Straits become old yesterday: "There is great satisfaction after cooperative the challenge of taking higher than a relegation-threatened team, and later winning the league within a year."When the 43-year-old took higher than the reins last year, Chennai had three games to stave off relegation from the I-League. They inflection Churchill Brothers 3-1, drifting 7-1 to East Bengal, since securing safety with a 2-1 win higher than 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 upon Saturday with a come-from-behind 3-1 win higher than 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 with the LionsXII.
A SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTThere is great satisfaction after cooperative the challenge of taking higher than a relegation-threatened team, and later winning the league within a year.AKBAR NAWAS, Chennai City head coach, upon the I-League side's purpose 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 place at the summit of the 11-team league from the third harmonize week.The become old of India summarised their completion as "befitting their dominant campaign, the fulcrum of which was a sustained possession-based football".Akbar said: "Winning the title was the end outcome of fine scouting, our attacking football philosophy, how we trained, prepared and executed our plans during the games."The club gave me the pardon to impart this to the players despite initial scepticism more or less whether this will be successful in India."I never drifting snooze higher than the title race because we were focused and trusted our processes - there was great synergy in the midst of the owner, backroom staff and players. In fact, I drifting snooze forlorn after we won, with the many phone calls and text messages coming in!"Astutely building the team in relation to five Spaniards from Europe's demean leagues and former S-League star Jozef Kaplan, Akbar plus 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 every department. Striker Pedro Manzi may be the league's joint-top scorer with 21 goals, but the winning goals next 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 with Neroca after blowing a 3-0 guide - and to the players for brute gate to his ideas."This is entirely the stress of my career, but I wish there is more to come."That could capably be the fighting as Chennai are now eligible for the 2020 AFC Champions League qualifiers, while sources plus told ST that the duo are now upon the every India Football Federation's radar, with India's national coach perspective 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 show of Akbar and Balagumaran.While Akbar declined to comment upon speculation higher than his cutting edge as he has one more year left upon his contract, Balagumaran said: "I wish this completion shows there are fine coaches from Singapore and opens the gate for more Singaporean coaches to venture abroad."If we can start from humiliate beginnings, show hard with what we have and still find success, there is no excuse local coaches can't purpose for a job in a professional league in Asia, or perhaps teens 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, upon the humiliate backgrounds of many of their players.
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