Half a dozen players made their senior national debuts in Igor Stimac's first match as head coach of the Indian team...
For a little while in the 2019 King's Cup third place playoff game, the eleven men on the field for India had a combined 101 senior caps, one more than Thailand striker Teerasil Dangda who playing in his hundredth game.
New head coach Igor Stimac promised to give every member of the squad a chance in the tournament and so he did. He gave six out of the seven uncapped players in his 23-man squad their debuts in the first game against Curacao itself.