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| ABCDFOOTBALL brings the foreign vs Indian comparison in the attacking half in the i-League 2013-14 |
ABCDFOOTBALL this time brings to you with another unique piece of statistics. This time we concentrate of foreign dominance on the attacking half of i-League teams.
This season of i-League witnessed a total of 520 goals
(excluding own goals), but the interesting part is the number of goals scored
by foreginers and Indians. Despite the rule of fielding 3 foreigners most clubs
have chosen to put the major chunk of the foreign quota to the attacking
department. 287 goals have been scored by foreigners which means around 55% of
total goals scored by them leaving the Indians with 45% of the goals.
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| The pie-chart showing the foreign dominance of goalscorers in the i-League 2012-13 |
Lets have a look how the Indians and foreign goalscoring
chart looks separately.
The top goalscoring foreigners:
|
Club
|
Player
|
Goals
|
|
Prayag United
|
Ranti Martins
|
26
|
|
Mohun Bagan
|
Odafa Okolie
|
19
|
|
East Bengal
|
Chidi Edeh
|
18
|
|
Pune FC
|
James Moga
|
16
|
|
Churchill Brothers
|
Henri Antchouet
|
14
|
|
Churchill Brothers
|
Beto
|
13
|
|
Dempo SC
|
Ryuiji Sueoka
|
11
|
|
SC Goa
|
Ogba Kalu
|
11
|
|
Mohun Bagan
|
Tolgay Ozbey
|
10
|
|
Churchill Brothers
|
Akram Moghrabi
|
10
|
|
Mumbai FC
|
Yusif Yakubu
|
10
|
The top goalscoring Indians:
|
Club
|
Player
|
Goals
|
|
Prayag United
|
CK Vineeth
|
7
|
|
Dempo SC
|
Joaquim
Abhranches
|
6
|
|
Dempo SC
|
Peter Carvalho
|
6
|
|
Salgaocar
|
Francis
Fernandes
|
6
|
|
Churchill Brothers
|
Binesh Balan
|
6
|
|
Dempo SC
|
Clifford Miranda
|
5
|
|
Pune FC
|
Izumi Arata
|
5
|
|
Pailan Arrows
|
Holicharan
Narzary
|
5
|
|
Pailan Arrows
|
Milan Singh
|
5
|
|
Shillong Lajong FC
|
Sushil Kumar
Singh
|
5
|
|
Pune FC
|
Jeje
|
5
|
The difference seems quite clear with none of the Indians
even close to the top scoring goreigners. The ratio of 3.7:1 between the top
goalscorer Ranti Martins and the top goal scoring Indian Vineeth CK tells the
story itself. It is astonishing to even imagine that no Indian comes at the top
10 list of goal-scorer’s in the i-League 2012-13 season with the first Indian
name coming at lowly 14th rank thanks to some heroic efforts by
Vineeth CK for Prayag United.
The top four club that have seen the most part of foreign
goal scorer dominance are:
|
CLUB
|
Foreign Goalscorer ratio
|
|
Mohun Bagan
|
79.48717949
|
|
Churchill Brothers
|
69.09090909
|
|
Prayag United
|
68.51851852
|
|
Mumbai FC
|
61.76470588
|
McDowell Mohun Bagan relying on the shoulders of their mega
signing, Odafa Okolie have found their Indian goalscoers getting least share of
goal with foreign quota scoring at a rate of 79.46% (7.9 goals out of every 10
being scored by foreigners). Churchill Brothers, Prayag United and Mumbai FC
have all crossed the 60% mark in terms of foreign share of goals scored.
Dempo SC could be credited in this regard despite having one
of the bitter i-League campaign with 55%(approximately) goals coming through
Indians. Shillong Lajong FC(54%) and Salgaocar FC(53%) also deserves special praise for maintaining a respectable position on the points table and also their Indian players contributing in the attack half. Pailan Arrows being a development side have all Indian scorers meaning
cent percent of goals coming from them.
Perhaps one could credit the foreign recruitment policy by
the clubs like Churchill who have let the Indian football fans see few of the
best foreign recruits in recent times, considering their i-League triumph, but
it is a alarming signal to the development of Indian forwards who are not
coming though to the big stage. Only Sunil Chhetri have been one name which
came up to the height of Bhaichung Bhutia’s calibre but after that it has been
in bits and pieces. And with the All India Football Federation(AIFF) increasing
the foreign slot from the next season, one can only pray for the future of
Indian forwards.
These stats are managed and maintained by me(Debraj Banerjee) and Acham Thavirthan.
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