Munshi said Miller, who is one of the five chief instructors of Fifa, would be training the country's upcoming junior level players under Fifa's $<\!q>1 million scheme for various national bodies' junior development programme.

He said Miller had visited Bangalore and Calcutta Sports Authority of India (SAI) centres and would soon be submitting his report.

``We are negotiating with him and the deal would be finalised soon, Munshi said, adding that Miller would be paid a fee of $ 7,500 per month, Rs 10,000 for miscellaneous expenses and medical insurance.

After this, the AIFF would be looking for a foreign coach to raise the standard of the senior team also, he announced. Jiri Pesek, the Czech coach and Akramov, the Uzbek coach, who were the last foreign coaches here, haddone some good work in raising the standard of our footballers in general, said Munshi.

Munshi added the lack of sponsorship from industrial houses due to recession, had set back the clock for AIFF's development programmes to raise the standard of football in the country.

However, with assurances in the 1999-2000 union budget for income tax and other concessions to industrial houses, if they take up sports projects, more industrial houses would be coming forward to support football by the month of June or July, he hoped.