Indian Football needs better treatment!
It's always been a rare sight to see India playing international football matches.It is more rare for India to win an international football match.The results at the recent Asian Games football tournament have been really good and positive for our football team.In group D, they drew with Hongkong in the first match 1-1 and beat Maldives 2-1 in the second match yesterday.So far the team has been very promising with young players like Bungo Singh , Surukumar Singh, Pradeep Pappachan, Steven Dias, Climax Lawrence and Bhaichung Bhutia have been really good so far.
It's a major win for India after a very long time , the last time is saw Indian football team playing really well was at L.G.Cup at Vietnam.
Unfortunately no one seems to support team India when it comes to football.The Indian government refused to sponsor the team for Asian games 2006.The team has been sent by AIFF without the financial backing from Govt of India.The win against Maldives was not covered by any major channels like 'CNN-IBN' or NDTV.When it's a time where the much hyped cricket and hockey teams are showing no results , football team should atleast be motivated if not promoted by our local media.
Indian Football team infact has a very good history. We have qualified for the 1950 World Cup finals in Brazil, but could not appear as we still played bare feet at that time.The Indian team also won the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games gold medals in football. In 1956 the team finished fourth at the Melbourne Olympics.Well the big question to be answered is whats holding back the AIFF and the Indian Football team. Well that could be another post. :-)
Links: BBC Sport - "What's holding back Indian football?"
It's a major win for India after a very long time , the last time is saw Indian football team playing really well was at L.G.Cup at Vietnam.
Unfortunately no one seems to support team India when it comes to football.The Indian government refused to sponsor the team for Asian games 2006.The team has been sent by AIFF without the financial backing from Govt of India.The win against Maldives was not covered by any major channels like 'CNN-IBN' or NDTV.When it's a time where the much hyped cricket and hockey teams are showing no results , football team should atleast be motivated if not promoted by our local media.
Indian Football team infact has a very good history. We have qualified for the 1950 World Cup finals in Brazil, but could not appear as we still played bare feet at that time.The Indian team also won the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games gold medals in football. In 1956 the team finished fourth at the Melbourne Olympics.Well the big question to be answered is whats holding back the AIFF and the Indian Football team. Well that could be another post. :-)
Links: BBC Sport - "What's holding back Indian football?"
posted by Vasudev Udhatya @ 9:02 PM
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