Many a times a man (as in Homo Sapiens) is put through dilemmatic situations; none more prominent than those in Sport.
Who doesn't love sports? Across the World there are billions of fans of football and there would be at least a billion Cricket fans in the Indian Subcontinent alone. And some people are so fanatical about their teams that they would go miles following their favorite team or even would burn effigies if their heroes fail.
While the players (who actually fight it out in the middle) are tied down by the nationality they hold, the coaches and support staff are not bound by such rules. This was the reason Bob Woolmer, an Englishman is credited for bringing South African team to top of test rankings. Dave Whatmore who played for Australia, gained fame leading Sri Lankans to World Cup victory in 1996 and later make a formidable team out of Bangladesh's kids.
The past coach of Indian cricket team, Gary Kirsten, faced the dilemma when Indian Cricket team toured South Africa under him. While India was fighting to retain the top spot in test cricket rankings, the Proteas who were at second place were looking forward to dislodge Indians. More recently, South Africans faced Indian Cricket team in the World Cup while Gary was the coach.
Currently India is on tour of England under another English coach Duncan Fletcher, who played for England and 5 years ago he coached the English national team. What a dilemma it would be for him? 5 years ago he was striving to make name for the English cricket team and today he would be making plans to rout them.
With top spot at stake, if the Indian cricket team fail to make their mark in England, would questions be raised against his professional integrity? If Indians rout the English, would Duncan's home country raise fingers on him (specially when most of the current English team played under him earlier and he would know their playing behavior).
One can only wonder, how tremendous pressure situation a coach would often have to go. Its indeed a great Dilemma.
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