AFC Asian Cup Qualifier 2027: Manolo Marx set to exit as India coach after Hong Kong defeat. Football news

PANAJI: India’s coach Manolo Markez cut a forelock figure after a loser of a solitary target against Hong Kong, can be understood for a person who tasted only one of his eight matches in charge of the national team. The first six sports clubs and the country’s coaches were in his dual role, but worryingly, as a full -time coach of the national team, ended in both his sports defeat. If an international friendly defeat against Thailand in an international favorable was separated by focusing on the final round qualifier of the Asian Asian Cup 2027, the defeat against Hong Kong left everyone. “The dressing room is like a funeral, practically,” Manolo said after the game at the Kai Tech Stadium on Tuesday. “We are not very happy.we are sad. But I still feel that India has the possibility of qualifying. India is at the bottom of the four-team group with just one point from the first two matches, which begins with a draw against Bangladesh. This month later. A senior official told TOI on Wednesday, “From June 1, Manolo became the coach of a full -time national team, and he could not get out of his two -year contract.”

The AIFF Technical Committee and its Executive Committee are expected to be a formal farewell after separate meetings on 29 June. The Manolo will be disappointed with an unexpected initial end of his tenure as a national coach. In 2017, at the ground level with Las Palamas, after managing teams at every level including youth, third division, second division, women’s football, and Laliga, the national team job was missing for the Spanieng. He was brought on board after FC Goa and India agreed to do dual jobs, but the results are away from satisfactory. “I could not say anything negative about the players. The attitude was there, we also had a plan. In a few moments, I felt that we could play better with the ball and be brave. But it’s about the situation that the team is not winning, and the players are a little nervous,” Manolo said.Quiz: Who is that IPL player? It was Manolo who flew from Goa to Bengaluru to convince Sunil Chhatra to come out of international retirement, seeing it as a short-term solution, seeing that other major scorers among domestic players were an unaccounted winger and a left-wing. Chhatri agreed, scored once against the Maldives – Manolo won the only win as the coach of the national team – but hardly any impression in the later sports. Against Hong Kong, India’s highest international target-scorer also did not make it in the initial XI. When the next round of Asian Cup qualifiers is played against group leaders Singapore, Awa (9 October) and Ghar (14 October), AIFF would have found a replacement for Manolo as a national coach. Until the 40 -year -old forward has decided, changing the umbrella will not be as straightforward, unless it is time for India. It may be that his start on the bench on Tuesday was an indicator of how things can be shaped in the coming months.