India to play football in the next World Cup? No way. A nation of a billion-plus and unable to make it in the qualifying cycle. Is it that we do not have good players that we
do not invest money in them or is it that we do not invest and that is why we do not have good players. The truth strikes us like a bolt of lightning- it is just not our cup of tea. It involves real big money which a country like India cannot afford.
In countries like Brazil, Argentina, Spain football comes as naturally as Mamta Banerjee being a Marxist In Brazil to get into a football academy is as difficult as getting into an IIT or an IIM in India. We can be ardent admirers of the most democratic game of skills, stamina spontaneity, endurance and sportsmanship, with millions glued to the TV sets for the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, can further move to Ronaldo haircuts, Messi and Kaka slogans, set soccer theme-song as ring-tones however are unable to produce a team which would even qualify for the World Cup.
India with the 113rd ranking even behind Fiji, Faroe Islands, Sudan and Iceland is a country with an emerging economic power, it can have a stable democracy still it has two big drawbacks as far as football is concerned- lack of funds and infrastructure. The kind of big money that is involved a country like India cannot imagine for atleast another fifty years. Its still a far- fetched dream.
Dr Medhavi Chourey
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