Bengaluru FC hit the ground running in Indian football winning the I-league in their inaugural season. They followed it up by becoming the ...
Bengaluru FC hit the ground running in Indian football winning the I-league in their inaugural season. They followed it up by becoming the first-ever Indian club to reach the AFC Cup final and then when they moved to the Indian Super League, they dominated proceedings once again.
It’s fair to say Bengaluru FC is a club that isn’t too used to failures and it’s perhaps why when the team lost three games in a row, their coach Carles Cuadrat lost his job.
But Bengaluru’s statement following the departure of their coach suggested that the reasons for firing the coach who had won them their first ISL title were a bit more than results on the pitch.
“After deep deliberation with the management, we feel the club needs to head in a new direction – one where the ethos and philosophy of Bengaluru FC begins reflecting again. While we enjoyed success with Carles in the past, we felt there was a departure from the philosophy that we hold true this season, which prompted us to arrive at this decision,” Parth Jindal, Bengaluru FC’s director was quoted as saying in the statement.
While winning is certainly a part of the ethos and philosophy at the club,...
