#1 Ashley Westwood
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Our Indian manager of the year is the man who started the job for Roca to finish. Westwood was Bengaluru’s manager from their inception until the end of the last I-League. In those three years, he won them two I-League titles.
This year, nothing came easy for Bengaluru. They were always playing catch-up in the I-League, with their game in hand. But, as the tournament approached its business end, they hit their stride as the big players began to stand up and be counted.
Their form was so good that they wrapped up the title with one game to spare, in a fantastic season for them.
Even at the halfway stage of their AFC Cup campaign, Bengaluru were struggling. They had only won one game, having lost to Lao Toyota away and to Johor at home. But in their last three games, they won two, beating Lao and Ayeyawady United at home to book their place in the qualifiers.
If Bengaluru FC are where they are today, Ashley Westwood deserves a huge amount of credit as a lot of this current adulation that the club are getting are his doing.
