Stephen Constantine

Moments after the Indian football team were drawn in Group A of the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019, head coach Stephen Constantine stated that India can "qualify to the knock-out stage" of the Continental championship. "I think it's a group from where we can qualify to the knock-out stage. I won't say it's an easy group but we have the ability to win against some of these teams and on our day, we can beat most of them," Constantine, who attended the draw along with team manager Shanmugam Venkatesh, told www.the-aiff.com.