Hyderabad: Football will be a possibility of focusing because the Telangana government is looking to complete a new sports policy.
That they wanted to go by the way the Odisha government adopted a clear hockey but whether Telangana will succeed in reaping compensation from football promotion is the moot point.
To start, Odisha has a large puddle of hockey players at the grassroots level.
Even though the former player here is Gung-ho about the proposal, the same thing cannot be said to be football in Telangana except for some bags in the city.
Hyderabad was once a feeder line for Indian football.
But it has been reduced to a pale shadow because of rampant politics.
A binding consultant company to help form a policy of studying existing infrastructure, resources, and talents available in the state before the policy draft was submitted to the cabinet sub-committee consisting of IT minister KT Rama Rao, Sabitha Indra Reddy, Yerrabeli Dayakar Rao and Srinivas Goul .
But analysts and administrators of TOI talk clearly in what they want from policy: infrastructure, trainers, sponsors and work for sportsmen.
Wise infrastructure, City scored well for holding Afro-Asia and National matches in 2003-04.
Stadium is also built in the district.
Three other areas need to be considered carefully.
Apart from cricket and badminton, there are no sponsors from the corporation for other disciplines.
The coach is paid badly.
And work is hard to come by.
Many feel the policy of a 2% job reservation for sportsmen is not implemented correctly.
The sports administrator involved in the policy making to the Toi that the ISL Team Hyderabad Football Club (HFC) has been approached to start the Academy in Gajwel, the Constituency of the Chandrasekhar Rao Chandrasekhar Rao Mouncements to use talents.
A policy similar to the Target Olympic podium scheme (peak) is also being considered.
This will help identify talents earlier so that athletes can be prepared.
The government also plans to get top coaches.
Until now, there were only 130 coaches in the state.
From this, only 11 regular and six coaches became administrative.
The remaining – 121 – not a regular coach.
Given the inability, the state wants to train and use services of 3000 strange physical education teachers (pets).
Efforts also to recruit at least 10 trainers in different disciplines for each of the 119 assembly constituencies.