The performance of at least 3-4 Asian teams (especially Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Australia) which have played in the group stage (including in the knock-out stage) of the ongoing Qatar World Cup was very much impressive.
In fact, some of these teams were seen defeating mighty giants like Argentina, Germany, Spain, Portugal etc in great style for the first time ever and creating history during their group stage matches at the Qatar football world cup.
It would indeed have been nice to see our country representing Asia and playing at a football world cup at least once. India has the capacity of representing Asia at the football world cup in future. Well, this might sound like a big joke for some but why not when we have a second highest big population of a billion people in
the world?
The other day I was just reading the past history of Indian football and was surprised to learn that India was once the most powerful team in Asia. In fact, it had won a gold medal twice at the Asian games in 1951 and in 1962 respectively
in football.
Now, if our Indian football team could do that marvellous thing in the past then why not now? Can’t we guys with a big population of a billion people come out and put up just one strong team of 11 players to represent our country at a football world cup event in future?
I think that today if the standard/quality of football is not improving in our country then that’s only because of the indifferent attitude of our business-minded corrupt politicians, bosses from the Indian media houses who go about blindly promoting only one sport amongst the masses and that is cricket at the cost of all other sports in India to make money.
I therefore personally feel that if we Indians really want to see our country playing in a football world cup in future then instead of blindly dancing only after cricket we should also learn to passionately follow/support football in a very big way and try to improve its standard/quality right from the grassroots level in India.
We Indians should realise that the world’s most popular sport is not cricket but football as this sport alone is truly a highly competitive mega sport. It’s a sport which is passionately followed/ played by almost all the mighty nations around the globe unlike cricket which is played (with the exception of England, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, West Indies, Zimbabwe) by just a handful of mostly Asian centric weak countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh etc to entertain a few unemployed fools (from these very same countries) for time-pass.
So, think positive coz soccer alone rules and it rules the whole world. Long live soccer.
