Team deserves better treatment

MUMBAI, Aug 17: The All India Football Federation seems to have different set of rules for different people. How else can it be explained when the players were made to travel by train while the officials went by air.
The Indian football team arrived from Fiji on Wednesday at 5.10 pm and the players were told that they would be sent by train (2nd AC) to their bases.
This after a month-long camp and then an arduous seven-day tour where they lost 0-3 to a team ranked 139, five places below them.
Surely they deserved to be treated better. The travel-weary and disappointed players had no AIFF officials to
greet them at the Sahar International Airport.
They were further disappointed when they learnt they had to travel by train, which most of them were in no mood to.
Eventually, they were left to fend for themselves after the officials had to rush to the domestic airport to catch their flights.
While East Bengal had the sense to cancel the train tickets of their players and arranged for them to be flown down to Kolkata in time for the Derby match against Mohun Bagan on Thursday, players belonging to some of the other teams weren't so lucky.
They were seen desperately trying to obtain air tickets. The Goa players were to travel by the Konkan Kanya train on Wednesday night, while the rest from JCT and other teams accepted their fate.
The AIFF secretary Albert Colaco called from Goa to make arrangements for the players to be put up at a hotel near the domestic airport for the night and travel next morning.
But there were not many takers. What is not understandable is, why could the AIFF not send the players by plane to their respective destinations instead of booking them on a train journey?
Doesn't the national team deserve better even if they did not fare well?