"It is a fallacy that small football nations should

compensate their tactical and technical deficiencies with better fitness levels. The most important thing in football is decision making and playing together so that there is coordination and communication among the players. "The second is your tactical and technical soundness and the third is physical fitness. So fitness training is an integral part of training but not the most important. You need to be physically fit to control the ball and execute the plans but there is no use of being fit if you do not have the correct tactics and technique." He said it is better if former players become fitness coaches instead of specialist who does not know football. "A specialist fitness coach will want to speak in their language like aerobic, anaerobic training and not football language and the head coach and players would not know that language. If you have to have a fitness specialist he will have to speak in football language," he said. Verheijen, however, said that there is no plan to watch Indian players train and he favoured Indian fitness coaches learning the ropes instead of a foreigner coming in to take charge.