Sports Minister Vijay Goel today asserted that the decision to sack or retain India's U-17 football coach Nicolai Adam rests with his department, indicating that the issue would not be resolved any time soon. Barely nine months before India hosts the FIFA Under-17 football World Cup, national coach Nicolai Adam was to be shown the door after complaints of "physical abuse" by some of the players, according to sources. The All India Football Federation has expressed its willingness to remove the German, but the Sports Ministry is yet to take a call. So, without ministry's consent, nobody can remove a coach. The federation has no right to sack the coach," Goel told(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

Source: dna January 30, 2017 13:56 UTC