Mumbai: young midfielder Manaha Kalyan believes good performance in the upcoming AFC Asian Cup can change the face of Indian football.
Mana feels that it has been a learning process for him in the senior team over the past few years.
“Every young man must adjust to senior football, and it took several years on the outskirts, after I was taken from the U-19 team,” Manha was quoted in a statement issued by all.
Indian Football Federation (AIFF).
Mana, who stole headlines in November last year with his goal against World No Brazil, did not want to rest on his past achievement.
“That’s all in the past.
We don’t know who will make the start of XI, or what will come from the bench, but one thing we know is that the trainers choose us because our players are in the present, and there is nothing We have done in the past, “he stressed.
“The goal against Brazil is a great time personally, and I will look back from time to time at my low moments and try to take strength from it.
But the Asian Cup is a much bigger stage.
Good performance here can change Indian football., “added Manha.
‘Blue Tigresses’ as an Indian women’s football team is known as, preparing for the Asian Cup AFC India 2022 and their initial target continues to reach the last eight stages.
“We have so many young people on our team.
There are 20-year-old children, children aged 18-19 years, and even 16 years old,” said Sanju Yadav, who played as ahead.
“But playing for a senior team at a young age means that you have to come from mental age.
I think these children we have are very mature,” Sanju added.
Sanju believes in children who have made a list of Final 23, has been brought based on their physical and mental strength.
“Not everyone in the team will have the same physical capacity.
But soccer is a game where mental skills are just as important, and these children have shown many things,” he continued.
The host of India, who was exchanged in Group A, would take Iran in their first league match at Dy Patil Stadium on January 20.
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