However, celebrities should make it a point to attend as many games as possible for fan following. Also to make the league attractive every game should bear result. Aversion to drawn matches keeps the spectators away. Knowing that every game will have result spectators are bound to flock to the ground. Japan had experimented when the J-League was first introduced. And Japan succeeded in getting back the spectators to the stadiums. This inaugural year the ISL’s main intention should be to rake up frenzy among fans and get the spectators back.
Goa’s football giants Salgaocar and Dempo have come together along with Videocon to form FC Goa. Manohar Parrikar too is upbeat. He has shown that he is not an exception as football runs in his veins too like any other Goan. He has thrown his weight behind the franchise and warmed the cockles of our hearts. Commercially it is heading in the right direction. Football academies have a task cut out. They have no option but to fall in line and churn out high quality players to feed the ISL clubs. So, naturally, all Football Associations and football development organizations have to up the ante to meet challenges.
Irineu Gonsalves, Verna
