By our Lahore Correspondent
The U-21 team heads of to Thailand this Sunday, before that the training camp of the team is taking place at the Model Town Football Club ground. Here are some stills of the training going on.
There are two fun videos. In the first one the team is practising shooting running balls and in the other video Head Coach Tariq Lutfi is trying to trick the Goal-Keepers on penalties!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCD8k5LUu5A[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsHkJMkxj0g[/youtube]
Well done boys!
i hope sid sab is happy :p AND I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE SID SHIEKHS :p
Thanks for this. But I was hoping for interview vids like Suprah made with the Asian Games squad. These are very good too, though.
I was there too with Usman ghani virk. today what i liked baout coaches was they were encouraging players. thats where you get 200% out of player who cant give 50% ..
so the camp was good. I wish Nasir Ismail will keep the same attitude with boys and staff which he is not known for.
Rest of things will be seen soon in games. All the player lack now is physical fitness. If anybody can forward my message to these super king coaches to do gym session with boys atleast in thailand.
it will give them more strength which they dnt have now.
go for big height players they all are 5-5ft 5-7 height which is very short and they are too weak.
I don’t understand how people train in such grounds,its hard as rock.Same is the problem in India,though nowadays they are using FIFA funded artificial pitches.
Hopefully Thailand should help them prepare well.
@ahmed: how much these artificial pitches costs..? any idea and can we also get some funding on it in Pakistan..?
Each of them coast around Rs 3 crores with guarantee of 8 years and not requiring much of maintenance.
Currently AIFF is laying out around 7-8 artificial pitches, all the funds are from FIFA Goal Project.
Its too expensive for local club in Pakistan who cant pay much for their own players..
If we can get some funding by FIFA or AFC on it then we should put atleast 10 grounds in big cities of pakistan and in each province for a good football at youth level.
If u get even one artificial pitch in Pakistan ..it would be a miracle..:-)
We can get it… why not !!!!!!!
If FIFA can fund it to others than why not Pakistan !!!
for that we should produce some results as well