mo4ch:> Odisha FC: Will the slow and the steady win the race? | Mo4ch News

Odisha FC fell short but did well to stay in the race for the playoffs until the very end...There are clubs that decide to sack their manager four matches into a season. Then there are clubs that have trusted their head coaches to captain the ship despite them having found no success in terms of winning trophies and getting into the top four. Odisha FC would fall into the second category. Josep Gombau entered his second year in Indian football with a new entity named Odisha FC. It was an extension of his project at Delhi Dynamos, with the same look and feel but the base had changed. They now had to operate from the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar and that was Gombau's biggest obstacle this season. In addition to their limited budget and preference to integrate young players into the squad over the purchase of big names, Gombau had a specific style of play that required a good field of play. Even though the home ground itself turned out to be in a poor condition, Gombau's Odisha…