From relegation candidates to I-League champions in a year, Chennai City proved there are more to football miracles than just Leicester City's startling English Premier League achievement in 2016.In achieving the improbable, head coach Akbar Nawas and his partner K. Balagumaran with showed that Singaporean trainers are clever 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 obliging the challenge of taking higher than a relegation-threatened team, and next 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, loose 7-1 to East Bengal, past securing safety once a 2-1 win higher than Minerva Punjab in their unlimited match.A year later, the remarkable turnaround was completed in stomach of 8,000 fans at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu on Saturday once 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 to V. Sundram Moorthy after winning the 2013 Malaysian Super League title once the LionsXII.
A SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTThere is good satisfaction after obliging the challenge of taking higher 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 total 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 top of the 11-team league from the third concur week.The era of India summarised their achievement as "befitting their dominant campaign, the fulcrum of which was a sustained possession-based football".Akbar said: "Winning the title was the stop consequences of fine 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 nearly whether this will be successful in India."I never loose sleep higher than the title race because we were focused and trusted our processes - there was good synergy in the middle of the owner, backroom staff and players. In fact, I loose sleep by yourself after we won, once the many phone calls and text messages coming in!"Astutely building the team on the subject of five Spaniards from Europe's demean 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 once 21 goals, but the winning goals against 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 fittingly 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 once Neroca after blowing a 3-0 guide - and to the players for beast log on to his ideas."This is completely the make more noticeable of my career, but I hope there is more to come."That could well be the war as Chennai are now eligible for the 2020 AFC Champions League qualifiers, even if sources with told ST that the duo are now on the all India Football Federation's radar, once India's national coach point of view 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 work of Akbar and Balagumaran.While Akbar declined to comment on speculation higher than his well ahead as he has one more year left on his contract, Balagumaran said: "I hope this achievement shows there are fine coaches from Singapore and opens the log on for more Singaporean coaches to venture abroad."If we can start from humble beginnings, work hard once what we have and yet find success, there is no defense local coaches can't hope for a job in a professional league in Asia, or perhaps teenage years 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 fittingly unpolished... now they have won their first professional league title.K. BALAGUMARAN, on the humble backgrounds of many of their players.
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