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Dempo Retaliate, Row Similar To 2007 Anelka Controversy
The club versus country saga has taken an ugly turn...
03-Dec-2009 9:16:34 AM
Dempo SC, who have easily been the most successful Indian club in the last four to five years, have retaliated to All India Football Federation's (AIFF) show cause over not letting Mahesh Gawli and Samir Naik join the ongoing national camp.
The focal point of the three page letter was the inclusion of players in the national squad despite being aware of the fact that they were injured for large parts of the I-League especially with Gawli having not played a single game. The club substantiated by mentioning that nowhere in the world are injured players summoned for national duty. However, according to FIFA rules, the clubs have to release their players when named in the national squad.
Nicolas Anelka was the centre of a similar controversy back in 2007, when France coach Raymond Domenech named the then Bolton striker in his squad prior to the games against Ukraine and Morocco despite the player having missed four games for his club due to hamstring injury. According to the medical report submitted by Bolton, Anelka wasn't expected to be fit until December while the camp was somewhere in mid-November.
Interestingly, Domenech hit back at the Bolton coach when Anelka was eventually fit to play in the second half against Morocco and mentioned that the national teams do conduct the required scans and while the clubs are only concerned about protecting the players who haven't played for them.
Armando Colaco, the coach cum secretary of the Goan club, further stated that in the past players who were injured in the national camps were left to recuperate by themselves and cited the example of Anthony Pereira who got injured during the Portuguese sojourn. The clubs have to release the players and let them report to the national camp to have the necessary medical tests following which the player, if found injured, is sent to the club to recuperate as it happened in Cristiano Ronaldo's case recently.
According to FIFA rules, a club is subjected to release their players at least three days prior to a friendly, which Colaco pointed in his strongly worded letter, and hinted as to why does the national coach Bob Houghton have a three-to-four week camp.
One has to wait and watch as to how does the Indian FA tackle the points raised by Dempo SC.
Rahul Bali
The focal point of the three page letter was the inclusion of players in the national squad despite being aware of the fact that they were injured for large parts of the I-League especially with Gawli having not played a single game. The club substantiated by mentioning that nowhere in the world are injured players summoned for national duty. However, according to FIFA rules, the clubs have to release their players when named in the national squad.
Nicolas Anelka was the centre of a similar controversy back in 2007, when France coach Raymond Domenech named the then Bolton striker in his squad prior to the games against Ukraine and Morocco despite the player having missed four games for his club due to hamstring injury. According to the medical report submitted by Bolton, Anelka wasn't expected to be fit until December while the camp was somewhere in mid-November.
Interestingly, Domenech hit back at the Bolton coach when Anelka was eventually fit to play in the second half against Morocco and mentioned that the national teams do conduct the required scans and while the clubs are only concerned about protecting the players who haven't played for them.
Armando Colaco, the coach cum secretary of the Goan club, further stated that in the past players who were injured in the national camps were left to recuperate by themselves and cited the example of Anthony Pereira who got injured during the Portuguese sojourn. The clubs have to release the players and let them report to the national camp to have the necessary medical tests following which the player, if found injured, is sent to the club to recuperate as it happened in Cristiano Ronaldo's case recently.
According to FIFA rules, a club is subjected to release their players at least three days prior to a friendly, which Colaco pointed in his strongly worded letter, and hinted as to why does the national coach Bob Houghton have a three-to-four week camp.
One has to wait and watch as to how does the Indian FA tackle the points raised by Dempo SC.
Rahul Bali
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