Goa's Dempo Sports Club is set to be the "third Indian club to drop out of the 2016 I-League," according to Samindra Kunti of INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL. The All India Football Federation wants a "roadmap to have a single national Indian league in the future" and it looks like the Indian Super League is "winning the race." Last year the introduction of the ISL "radically changed the dynamics of Indian football." The league operates with franchises built around "aging global superstars" and with a number of "big name coaches" -- Zico coaches FC Goa in the ISL, for example. The spectator response was "encouraging," with an average attendance of 26,000 and a TV audience of some 400 million viewers. That is a "far cry from the struggling I-league, where financial uncertainty and low attendances reign." Since the I-League's inception in '07 four clubs have folded: Chirag United Kerala, JCT, Mahindra United and Pailan Arrows. Earlier this summer I-League clubs Pune FC and Bharat FC confirmed that they will not be participating in the '16 I-League (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 9/1).
