Wake Up Indian Football (2013)
Gunshots, flares, flags flying, horns blasting, people breaking into sudden jigs, youngsters turning up in truckloads, and policemen staring at all this with a smile on their faces ( Source:Firstpost.com) What do you do when you see such a headline? You get astonished as did I but that’s what the policemen did as they knew that they were not in a bloody fight but for a celebration! Afghanistan’s wait for a trophy was over! They defeated India, an economic powerhouse in the final of a game that they had lost two years ago. Bravo Afghanistan! But why are our Indian football team’s standards so low that they lose to a country which is ravaged by sectarian violence almost every day? 1. Is it due to the lackadaisical approach by the AIFF? 2. Did Wim Koevermans gamble of not playing Sunil Chhetri in the final XI fail? The answer to the above questions may be any but these facts cannot be ignored considering the fact that India’s g...