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I don't consider the Asian Cup an important tournament for us."
Had a coach of India's cricket team uttered such a phrase, you could guarantee the outrage that would follow. Yet, there was almost a quiet acceptance when Igor Stimac uttered these words after India suffered a 0-3 defeat against Qatar in their FIFA World Cup qualifier. Stimac had strolled into the press conference in a pensive, but slightly jocular mood, yet after a few tough questions, showered a hard dose of his perceived reality on the waiting journalists.
Not that there was much reality needed - Qatar were comfortably the better team against India and whatever pre-match expectations there were disappeared quicky. As much as Carlos Queiroz was insistent that this 3-0 win was far tougher than the 3-0 he had inflicted upon India with Iran in 2015, it was a lesson in the gap Indian football has to overcome.
It was almost a perfect irony that FIFA Global Development chief Arsene Wenger was in attendance, hours after launching an academy with AIFF President Kalyan Chaubey to shore up said gap. The task in front of them is a monumental one, especially given this very Qatar side were arguably the worst to feature at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The task in front of Igor Stimac is just as massive too, with Qatar undoing the positivity surrounding the national side in 90 minutes.
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