Montenegro’s Babovic Miodrag is a man with a no-holds barred approach. The 65-year-old, foreign coach of the Indian (junior & senior) water polo teams, is determined to change the prevailing system in the country. At the same time after watching the talents and touring India including places such as Thiruvananthapuram, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar and Pune, he has realised that it would not be so easy to wring in changes.
“I want to change the training system. It will be very slow, trickle by trickle. We should plan in Olympic cycles. For that we should start from the u-12 kids,” said Babovic in an interview to The Hindu at the Velachery Complex here on Wednesday, on the sidelines of National sub-junior & junior aquatics championships in diving and water polo.
While watching the match between Kerala and Karnataka, he was aghast at the way the latter played and lost. “Karnataka has some very talented girls. They have the potential to win, but the team lost because there is no proper training or coach,” he lamented.
