Kaun Banega Secretary?

Wednesday, 01. July 2009 - Arunava Chaudhuri

Alberto Colaco is set to step down in a couple of months and the AIFF is on the lookout for a new General Secretary besides also looking for an I-League CEO.

Kaun Banega Secretary? This is a crucial question then the new General Secretary will have to work to develop Indian football on all fronts - professional & amateur, seniors & juniors, men's & women's.
A task to take our football forward and continue to professionalize the running of the federation, which will also have to grow further.

Then there is also the newly created post of Chief Executive Officer of the I-League. Under the guidelines of professionalizing club football in India the I-League would have to run as an own body with the CEO heading the league body.

The Federation has put an advert out in the newspapers as well as on their own official AIFF website for the post of General Secretary as well as the CEO of the I-League. The interested persons now have until July 15 to submit their applications to the national body by mail or post.

And as per information available the General Secretary race looks to be an open one with numerous candidates likely to put in their hats into the race. But one will only know on July 16 who actually does apply for the post as some non-football persons also expected to apply for the job.
Indian national team captain Baichung Bhutia has come out openly to support Savio Messias and Dr. Shaji Prabhakaran as the new secretary with a concensus candidate something which the AIFF Executive Committee would like to see.

Amongst the names doing the round as candidates are:

• Subrata Dutta (former IFA (West Bengal) secretary)
• Savio Messias (current Goa FA secretary)
• Dr. Shaji Prabhakaran (former AIFF Director of Vision India, National Senior & Youth Teams)
• Col. Gautam Kar (current AIFF Assistant General Secretary)
• Satyajit Sadanandan (former AIFF Project Director)
• Subhas Bhowmick (current East Bengal Club coach)
• Hakeem (former Indian international, senior Coach)

If you are interested to apply, here the links for further information...

AIFF General Secretary
http://www.the-aiff.com/employmentjob.php

I-League CEO
http://www.the-aiff.com/employmentjob1.php