All India Football Federation (AIFF) Fitness Coach, Pradip Dutta has become the first Indian to be nominated as a FIFA Conditioning Instructor. Dutta's nomination came from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Dutta, who has been associated with the senior Indian national team for long, has also been AFC's Elite Conditioning Instructor since 2006. He is currently based at the Lakshmibai National College of Physical Education in Trivandrum for the last 17 years.