Faizan Sameer on Team Eighteen, Futsal/Football in Pakistan & More | Pressing Matters #66

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Faizan Sameer is the head coach and manager of Team Eighteen, one of Pakistan's best futsal teams, from Islamabad. Team Eighteen is a project by Eighteen, who have hand-picked the top futsal players in Pakistan for their squad, and plan to expand their facilities and futsal projects to an even bigger scale. Faizan talks to us about the team, his own journey as a coach/manager, and his thoughts on the current situation in Pakistani football. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:45 - How did Team Eighteen start? 2:45 - Team Eighteen's long term vision in Pakistani futsal/football 5:45 - Faizan's journey in football 10:20 - The importance of man-management & squad-building 13:30 - The problems in Pakistani football - "ab players kay baaray mein sochnay ki zaroorat hai" 16:10 - The change in the new generation of Pakistan 17:30 - The criticisms received by Team Eighteen by some people in the football community 19:45 - Daniel Limones "driven out" + loss of hope 23:15 - Outro Follow us on: FACEBOOK  https://www.facebook.com/onthemicoffi... INSTAGRAM  https://www.instagram.com/onthemic_of... TWITTER  https://twitter.com/on_themic Connect with us: INSTAGRAM Umer Fasie Bashir (Editor): https://www.instagram.com/umerfasieb/ TWITTER Ismail Farooq (Host): https://twitter.com/thehalfspaces #PakistanFootball #TeamEighteen #FaizanSameer