I want my Team India in to the WC,how many years i will spend my time to watching FA,Champions league,WC,Euro cp.Just grow up India,Please bring some good footballers to india or send our team for full 1 year training in Old Trefared.Please if you don't have money start some charity work we will pay you Please Please..
RE:NOOOOOO
by srinath jayaram on Oct 31, 2007 10:50 AM
MY PAL never this will happen in INDIA becoz people, politicains everybody support this chute CRICKET. Unless they all support football & the other sports & the funding then INDIA can make it. Even I am a crazy FOOTBALL FANNNNN
Indians dont have the mental strength to fight in real sports. In fact cricket has changed the defenition of sports and sportsmen. Most of us have a picture in mind when we heard about a sportsman. Butromesh powar is also called a sportsman. Actually cricket is a soft entertainment which suits indians perfectly. We are not a proactive nation so active sports cant get much support among us. The preaching of gandhigiri and ahimsa has already made indian really soft and vulnerable. so cricket will be the no.1 sport in india.
But cricket, on the other hand lasts either a day(ODIs), 5 days(Tests) or 4 hours(20-20s), thus seduce the gentry, as being on TV for so many hours, causes a hypnotic effect!
Other sports have no chance to compete with cricket due to the TV time soan and exposure.
Before TV became wide spread after the 1982 Asian Games in India, other sports started dying due to Crickets TV exposure.
RE:Other sports, barring chess, lasts max 90 minutes, hence, its not a TV money spinner
by Zaveri on Oct 31, 2007 08:52 AM
Oh yeah thats why cricket is the most popular sports in England, Australia and SA. In fact they dont even bother to watch cricket barring few unlike indians who have enough time to watch cricket as well as advertisement
It is time we put proper attention to football, instead just being a benevolent torch bearer of the Commonwealth sports - cricket. It can be argued as a mark of a character of a nation, how it performs in sports and king of sports - soccer. India should do the following:
1. Remove inefficient politician Das Munsi from IFA 2. Bring in Chuni Goswami or a revered footballer in that post 3. Bring in Jagmohan Dalmiya to bring in more money in football, just like he did in cricket. 4. Bring in a foreign coach as a National Football Adviser, who would spend time mostly for improving infrastructure and finding out new talent. He would work with and help National Coach Bob Houghton. 5. Media should be encouraged to focus on football more. 6. Finally, remove ALL KINDS of POLITICIANS from sports - be in cricket or football. It is the brazen inefficiency and vested interest of politicians, which has reduced India to a minority in sports. FIFA rank 145 (down from 162) only proves that.
RE:Pour more attention, money and accountability to Football
by joseph caji barretto on Oct 31, 2007 07:03 AM
Honestly Rediff didnot even mention about the match before kickoff on 28th Oct. Only Later it mentioned after the date was changed on 30th. at the same time, cricket news even minor one, get big headlines.
RE:Pour more attention, money and accountability to Football
by Laxman Kumar on Oct 31, 2007 03:30 AM
may be the movie goal can do for indian football, as chakde did for hockey. i paray for it
See who are heading the sports bodies. Indian olympic association, amatuer athletic federation-Mr kalmadi, he is bringing Formula 1, good news,great speed,money. How many indians are benefited,see the state of the sportsmen other than cricket,they are crying for pittance, no infrastructure no scientific development of sports person.What happens to the millions dolled out by the International olympic association, nothing is made public,no body knows how the money is vanishing.Mr Kalmadi is fattened with the coffers of IOA that he cannot get up and leave the chair he is occupying for years together, his end in IOA will only come with his end only,then only the IOA and india sports will be resuurected.
mr P.R.dasmunshi-fotball is in doldrums,no vision for tomorrow,just occupying the chair because of political power and destroying both the sports and politics. Please vacate the chair and hand over the rein to somebody who is a real CEO who can give returns,A drastic change has to come in to this country then only everything will be alright, pray for it folks, that's the only way for us,easy going, jano de yaar, don't care indians.No wonder even after two shots of scotch down his gullet, Mr Iyer's utterances have got no effect on this system, every thing remains calm in chilly delhi and quiet like the silence before the tornado.can we have one for a change.
RE:sport under unsporting politicians
by Gautam De on Oct 31, 2007 01:44 AM
You did not mention Sharad Pawar. Who is single handedly destroying Indian cricket.
SURESH KALAMADI SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY REMOVED. ITS NOW PROVED THAT HE IS A WORTHLESS MAN. REMOVE MARGARET ALVA ALSO. MAKE MIKHA SINGH AND/OR LEANDER PAES IOA PERSIDENT. KICK OUT HORRIBLE POLITICIANS FROM SPORTS.
RE:only cricket
by biswarup chowdhury on Oct 30, 2007 09:45 PM
the men in control of Indian football are killing the sport...first we have to get rid of them...if we ,the football lovers of India ( i think the number is quite a biiiiiggggg one) want to do something for the development of football in India , we can do...
Hey guys - India is playing some great football lately. Check out the site www.allaboutif.com where i have put media from the recent Nehru cup victory. Some amazing one touch play by our team! Arsene wenger style!
We need to continue playing international football and improve on our winning percentage. Someone in this discussion said that his dreams are shattered. I would rather advise him not to dream but be practical and supportive to Indian football. We were so badly knocked out from this cricket world cup. Yet we are following cricket as keenly as before. We should do the same for football. Its obvious that in these initial days we would loose more matches than win.
