Three candidates submitted to AIFF by Technical Committee as per preference

The post of the national men’s team coach and the technical director have been vacant for some time, with the latter one for over two years now since Australian Scott O’Donnell left the job. And while the coach’s position is yet to be finalized, AIFF are very close to fill the other position according to PTI.

Isac, who was strangely interviewed from the Indira Gandhi International Airport over Skype after he faces visa issues, has previously worked as the assistant coach of Arsene Wenger at Nagoya Grampus Eight in Japan and is working as the sporting director of Japanese club Yokohama F Marinos at the moment.

“The other two candidates did not come to India and they were also interviewed via Skype. The Technical Committee members asked a lot of questions to all the three. I feel all are good but we have to mark out first, second and third choices. We have done that and it is for the AIFF Exco to do the appointment,” he signed off.

While Darsadze has previously been the head coach of Georgia’s U-17 team before going onto manage the national team in 2005 and thereafter staying the coaching education director at the Georgian Football Federation, Castelo has worked as the assistant manager in clubs like Benfica and Sporting CP. Castelo has been assistant to Sven-Goran Eriksson and Carlos Queiroz before working with Brazilian coach Mano Menezes in 2016 in Shandong Luneng in China.