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@avishek_g @joybhattacharj FIFA won’t take such govt action too kindly
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The truth is that FIFA is desperate to get India to play in the World Cup, has been for a while as we are literally the largest sports market with just a single sport dominating, the last fairly unexplored major market in sport.
They gave us the FIFA U17 World Cup on which I worked for that reason. The women's U 17 as well, they also wanted to give us the U20 tournament if our team continued to do improve, but the AIFF had imploded by then.
FIFA, like every world sporting body other than the ICC, wants to bring our huge audiences to their sport. It is our collective sports administration incompetence coupled with a clunky structure of sports being in the state list instead of the central list that is shooting us in the foot.
And why most major Indian sporting achievements have been individual, despite the system instead of thanks to the system.
Ashish Negi@7negiashish
If FIFA decides to expand the 2030 World Cup to 64 teams, then the AFC should receive at least 11.5 qualification slots. With Asia's population, investment in football, improving competitiveness and the growing number of nations capable of competing at World Cup level, a proportional increase in AFC representation would be justified.
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@CrimsonScalpel Not trying to put you on the spot but explain the shame? Why?
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Given we have some of the oldest clubs and football tournaments, it's really a shame we are so pathetic.
BBC News (World)@BBCWorld
India: Why a country of 1.4 billion is not in the football World Cup bbc.in/4exue8R
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@jareen66 @Mohansinha Cricket is a sport snatched from the colonial elite and created into a world class Global IP. Meanwhile every investment into football enriches the Euro elite.
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@Mohansinha Because cricket is playing seriously by just 10 Nations and the rest are just wannabes whereas Football is played by almost all the countries in the world and it is tough and challenging sport requiring immense skill
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Yeah sure. Ever asked why China, a country of over a billion people doesn't play in any of the cricket world cups or the world Test championship?
BBC News (World)@BBCWorld
India: Why a country of 1.4 billion is not in the football World Cup bbc.in/4exue8R
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@Mumbaikar1936 @Mohansinha Bhai us acronym ka alag hi NSFW meaning hai. I had the misfortune of googling it on a zoom call between friends😂
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@Mohansinha BBC has changed its name to
Bullshit Broadcasting China
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@Mohansinha China, in a single olympic has more medals than the entirety of India’s olympic participation
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@TINATINA2038712 @AdityaRajKaul By that logic, Yale University and it's IPs should be transferred to India.
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@AdityaRajKaul Can the American people sue you? You came to a country and invaded it.. They need to donate all the money to each American who is losing the jobs.
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Indian H-1B Worker Sues Employer For Forcing Him To Pay Rs 94 Lakh To Keep Job ndtv.com/world-news/ind…
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@technicalryuk Humans are not Glory hunters. Only Indians like you are.
Do you think fans of curacao didn't watch their team 5 years ago when they weren't anywhere?
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Reality is that majority of the Indian cricket fans are also Glory hunters
They'll stop watching the game the moment India start consistently loosing matches
We need to stop this culture and start loving the sport because our country is being represented in the global stage
Ashish Negi@7negiashish
It is not my team, it is our country. If you feel you need an incentive to support your national team, then I honestly don't know what to say. Going by that logic, countries like Bangladesh should have no support either. Yet their fans proudly back the national team despite being ranked 181 because they love both their country and football. The same can be said for Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Tajikistan and many others across Asia. Do you think every lower-league club in Europe plays great football? Of course not. Their fans still turn up because they love the game and feel a connection to their city and club. Support is not always about success. Sometimes it is simply about belonging.
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@theunrealbenz This wasn't started by the cricket fans though. Some fans of football in India who can't name the first choice left back in the national team but know the u19 injury record of Declan Rice decided to blame the state of Indian football on BCCI.
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Indian cricket lovers flooding every article/posts on Indias football failures with whataboutery and the inevitable comparison to China still haven't answered the one question: why can't India produce a football team worth talking about? Its because of your cricket!
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@dreamertitan @RahulRajVerse Daily reminder that Ambanis spent 5000 Crs on the football already. 2k cr broadcasting rights, 700cr to the board and rest spent on player acquisition.
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@raitatsunami @RahulRajVerse Let me explain again .
Suppose a public-sector company is planning to sponsor the national football league with ₹100 crore. If influential people persuade the company to instead sponsor a cricket tournament, football loses funding
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The two biggest reasons cricket became popular in India:
1. Very Very little competition, so it achieved success easily, which pushed the delusion among Indians that they were world-class.
2. The hype around India–Pakistan matches, which was directly linked to nationalism and other sentiments. This further embedded the idea that cricket = nationalism.
Ask your parents , grandparents and elders
Football was way more popular in india before 1983 world cup.
But the fluke win because of very low competition made india think they are world class in something
S.@sayerhsjar
all the kirkit fans crying in comments...you only like that sport because it was fed to you by the government and your parents since you were kids...your favouritism to that sport was NOT natural
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@KshSpirit @hbfetr Football has consumed the space & funding occupied by hockey and destroyed it from the inside. Decline of this sport is not an Indian phenomenon, it's a global sabotage from Brussels.
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@KshSpirit @hbfetr Another player in this sabotage was the multisport club Ajax which wanted to promote it's football philosophy of "Total football". They collectively converted hockey from a wrist skill sport to a speed sport. This caused the decline of results for the non European teams.
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Indian football would grow if players & fans actually cared rather than being performative crybabies.
Be it Cricket, Chess, Wrestling, Weightlifting, Badminton, Shooting, Javelin, TT, Boxing, Archery. They started to grow because of players. Govt & people's support came later.
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@raitatsunami @KapilSh19711108 @Rohirat_forever kiriket >>>>> ehole existence of universe
nikal lodu
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I wish football never grows in India. These football fans keep crying that cricket is ruining football. They never question the performance of our football team, but complain about cricket day and night. And honestly seeing them blame cricket for football’s failure is satisfying.
Harsh 17 @harsh03443
This guy is still standing by his comment, saying that the BCCI will never invest in football because they fear that if football grows, it will finish cricket in India 😭😭
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@NikhilS95519095 @abinashp01 "If you study quran, you will forget about your hinduism" and the Muslim running a channel to learn about Hinduism stays quiet.
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@abinashp01 First of all he's agreement doesnt mean his disrepect for the game and 2nd he's not as ignorant like other content creators like zeeshan he's made a very comprehensive and deatailed video about the downfall of indian football in detail without blaming cricket , he praised bcci
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This shameless fellow, sitting 2nd from right, literally runs a ytbe channel on cricket with more subscribers than his football channel, mints views, still disrespects the same bloddy game. Football will never grow till it's fans continue hating cricket.
`@wristofkohli
As long as Indian football fans will hate Indian cricket. Indian football will never match the heights of Indian cricket.
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@AnkitM997 Lol no. FIFA sees us as a cash cow.
- we bid for the hosting rights and won it against other bids.
-those experts, even if well meaning wanted careers India couldn't afford.
-They want us to spend to enrich it's elite.
Plenty of blame on AIFF, but FIFA aren't saints.
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This is true. FIFA made improving Indian football a clear priority. They sent experts, advisors, administrators, and some of the most experienced people in the sport to help guide the process.
They found an endless swamp of apathy, incompetence, petty politics, and corruption.
Joy Bhattacharjya@joybhattacharj
The truth is that FIFA is desperate to get India to play in the World Cup, has been for a while as we are literally the largest sports market with just a single sport dominating, the last fairly unexplored major market in sport. They gave us the FIFA U17 World Cup on which I worked for that reason. The women's U 17 as well, they also wanted to give us the U20 tournament if our team continued to do improve, but the AIFF had imploded by then. FIFA, like every world sporting body other than the ICC, wants to bring our huge audiences to their sport. It is our collective sports administration incompetence coupled with a clunky structure of sports being in the state list instead of the central list that is shooting us in the foot. And why most major Indian sporting achievements have been individual, despite the system instead of thanks to the system.
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@midfieldmagic11 Some of these guys are about to spout "Why is Adani not investing into football?"
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A reminder that FSDL reliance ambani wasted 5000 crores for these indian poodball, that miney should have been given to poor people.
Harsh 17 @harsh03443
This guy is still standing by his comment, saying that the BCCI will never invest in football because they fear that if football grows, it will finish cricket in India 😭😭
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@MessiKaTatta BCCI appointed businessmen like Jagmohan Dalmiya and Lalit Modi that hurt the sensibilities of its orthodoxy but they moved the game forward and created a global IP. Cricket used to be a part time sport for people with jobs in other countries, today they are millionaires.
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This is proper BS
why should BCCI give monetary help to AIFF? Cricket has earned its place by winning the 83 world cup being the biggest underdog. Football had the opportunity in 1950s to become what cricket is today but they withdrew out of the world cup and prioritised Olympics
Harsh 17 @harsh03443
Indian football fans are now blaming the BCCI because they fear that if Indian football grows, cricket will be finished forever in india 😭😭
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@aashuuu17 @MessiKaTatta Formula 1 and football fan. How empty is your life. Yuck.
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@Devarya @rameshsrivats Tiki taka was invented in an Indian government office
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@rameshsrivats I thought we love to pass the ball of blame to each other?
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Do you know why India, a country of 1.4 Billion, never makes it to the FIFA World Cup?
Because no one plays defence. Everyone is busy taking offence.
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