The badminton could be one of the best sports than India, as a country, excels, but it remains far from a viable financial solution, in particular for coaches and other members of the support staff. One of the best double coaches in the country, Arun Vishnu, decided to leave coaching for financial reasons. Arun, who led to the pair of senior women’s double female of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand, decided to bow because he could not help his family take care of the financial requirements with the money won by the badminton coaching.
“I want them to be n ° 9 in the world a few weeks ago,” said Arun Indian ExpressIn a mocking tone, while the pair of Jolly-Gopichand female doubles made the top 10 this week. “But it is a good feeling of having helped them, from scratch,” said Arun who worked silently in the background of the Indian badminton.
The decision to leave Badminton coaching does not come from the will but from the compulsion as helping the family to support and meet financial needs, has become priority n ° 1.
“I’m going to miss coaching at the highest level, but again, we have to take care of our families”, “
Arun, 36, from Calicut, hopes to use what he learned in his Vidarbha Academy, a new configuration.
Placing more in his plans and the decision to leave high -level coaching, Arun revealed that traveling full -time was no longer possible for him, especially since he was about to become a father for the second time.
“Arundhati’s father is aging and was alone in Nagpur. Traveling full time was not possible. I thought I was moving since August. Indian coaches are not paid much, and my authorized leave for training at the PSU national camp was exhausted. I decided to start an academy in Nagpur,” he explained.
“Vidarbha has a lot of talent, but there is not a structured academy here. I will encourage young people to play both single and double until 17,” he added.,
Arun also underlined the enormous gulf between the wages that the coaches of India earn, compared to those who were brought from abroad.
It has been reported that popular foreign names are paid $ 8,000 to $ 10,000, according to PTI, and Arun told the news agency that “Indian coaches are not paid even a quarter.”
“If we have to keep and feed the Indian coaches, they must be supported financially,” the outgoing coaches have clearly established expectations.
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