Blackburn Rovers head coach Tony Mowbray hopes young footballerAniket Jadhav’s time with the club will have provided him with the ‘building blocks’ for a future career.
Jadhav, whohails from Maharashtra’s Kolhapur and plays for Jamshedpur FC, wasthe first professional Indian player to train in England, afterarriving at Rovers’ Academy for a three-month spell in early March.
To aid his development, he was invited to join in with a first teamtraining session ahead of the season finale against Swansea, andMowbray believes that Jadhav would have benefited from theexperience.
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“He came up and trained one afternoon and I think thatwould benefit him playing with experienced professional footballersat Championship level,” the manager cum head coach was quoted assaying in a release issued Thursday.
“He’s only a young boy, but heshowed he had good basics to his game and he was able to join inwith the session. He was enthusiastic, he worked hard with thegroup.
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“I would hope that the professional level of coaching he gotat an elite level Academy will stand him in good stead for thefuture and create habits that will hopefully become rooted andbecome part of the foundation of his career,” the coach noted.
“Hishabits to play at the top level, the little things that he doesn’tquite do naturally are quite obvious to me. He doesn’t have thisperipheral vision, you should be knowing what your (teammates) aredoing without really turning around to look.
“He has to developthese things, these things come from repetition every single day,maybe for years for some people,” Mowbray said. Jadhav hadrepresented India during the Under-17 FIFA World Cup held in Indiain 2017.
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