The last few days had been bitter ones for Indian football. Many of the country’s premier clubs were reluctant to release players for the Asian Games and the National coach Igor Stimac could not even have a single training session before playing in Hangzhou.
There was a lot of emotional noise all around, certainly not the right send-off for the team.
But Datuk Seri Windsor John pointed out that the problem was only likely to get bigger everywhere in the next few months.