FC Goa’s assistant coach and Indian soccer legend Clifford Miranda has expressed his satisfaction in seeing his workforce carry out properly of their debut AFC Champions League this season.
The Gaurs ended their marketing campaign with a 0-2 loss to AL Wahda of the UAE of their ultimate group recreation on Thursday in Goa.
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With no head coach and the remaining of their overseas gamers on their facet, FC Goa fought properly in the course of the first hour of the match, however the UAE – primarily based facet ultimately proved to be too sturdy.
Miranda led the facet and after the match he praised the entire facet of India. As quoted by Objective, Miranda mentioned: “It’s all the time troublesome while you wouldn’t have gamers who’ve performed recurrently in latest matches. On the again, nonetheless, it was a chance for the opposite gamers.”
He then praised his facet by saying: “I’m very happy with these gamers that they performed extraordinarily properly, they performed to the utmost. Possibly with somewhat luck right here and there we may have obtained a outcome however then we have been up in opposition to one in every of the higher groups in Asia which might be a number of ranges above us. “
The previous Indian star then talked about that the absence of head coach Juan Ferrando had no impact on the workforce’s technique for the recreation.
Miranda mentioned, “To be trustworthy, it was nothing else. We had a plan made by Juan (Ferrando). As a supervisor, he does the play and on the pitch, we each do it and it was the identical factor in the present day. He made a plan and I simply needed to do it and it was not troublesome. The onerous half was enjoying matches each different day. “
Lastly, speaking about FC Goa ending third of their group on their debut AFC Champions League marketing campaign, Miranda mentioned, “When the draw was introduced, who should have thought that FC Goa would end third within the group and have three factors. Us a likelihood to play in opposition to final season’s runners-up Persepolis, Al Rayyan and Al Wahda. “
He concluded by giving credit score to the gamers as he mentioned, “Thanks to the boys for doing such a unbelievable job with so many difficulties. We’ve got been within the bubble for the final seven months. It’s a unbelievable achievement by the gamers and credit score should go to Juan (Ferrando) as properly because the membership to make this step in the highest match in Asia. “
