Indian national team will be held back as long as they ban dual citizenship though
Sunil Chetri is so under appreciated
Why don’t FIFA invest heavily in India? They might make insane returns once India starts playing World Cup regularly.
Indian Football is a gold mine waiting to be exploit… explored!
Before anyone gets excited he means that literally, FIFA wants to operate gold mines in India.
Smh, the real value in India is the cheap call centres
Today I feel gold
Infantino covered in gold powder literally would look like Gold Dust.
Even before that : it’s a mystery why no english player of indian background has made it to the highest level
There are several factors but racism plays a big part. Even in cricket, South Asian origin players in England face a lot of institutional racism, despite the fact that British South Asians have been integral to England winning World Cups and Ashes, and three different countries in the Indian subcontinent had won the World Cup before England did.
We’re all too fat
What kind of colonialist talk is this?
“How can we monetise a billion people?” - FIFA
They will have to fight hard with ICC & BCCI
I gotta figure out how to make money on this thing, it’s simply too good!
Is that not a good thing? Am I missing something?
“How can we monetise another billion people?” - FIFA
FTFY
A World Cup in China.
This is what I’m saying! Don’t go back to the Khaleejis for 2034, get in on the Indians or Chinese. So many potential kids to be inspired
Think the popularity by Son in Korea and multiple the hype by 10
Spurs shall secure ANOTHER country!
By 10? India is absolutely massive. More like 100x
I was thinking about this the other day. There’s over 1b people there and lots looove football, why do we never see good Indian players? Is the infrastructure that bad?
Always wondered about this. Out of +1 billion people, they couldn’t find ONE talented football player?
Football is very popular there but they don’t tend to support their own. Even during the World Cup last year, there and Bangladesh were rocking up to big screens wearing jerseys of other nations. Indians were going to Qatar to support England. It’s very weird.
India generally have a very poor sporting record. They have 10 Olympic gold medals in their history. It was only really in the last 20-25 years that they sorted themselves out in cricket.
If football ever got big, the BCCI (Indian cricket board) would wield their power and try to crush it.
Again, this topic is tiring at this point but nothing will change as long as Indians continue to simply consume the sport and not play it, along with a lack of infrastructure which means poor kids have no way of accessing professional football.