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Expansion of youth development and coach education programs
The absence of youth development programs at grassroots level has haunted Indian football for many decades now while age fraud remains a big problem in youth tournaments. There has been some improvement on this front as the AIFF have introduced many of their own academies and are determined to form a competitive team for the 2017 U-17 FIFA World Cup. But the clubs are not doing enough with only a few of the I-League teams having academies. The AIFF has to get very strict about youth development and make it mandatory for all I-League clubs to have full-fledged academies. Currently there is one youth I-League competition but more such nationwide tournaments are needed at various age group-levels. For having well-organised youth development programs, Indian football also needs more qualified coaches so more coaching courses have to be conducted around the country and even the current players should be involved in them, something which the FPAI (Football Players Association of India) have successfully started.
