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U-17 Soccer World Cup & Dreams Beyond

While commencement of under-17 soccer world cup is in the corner, Indian Football fraternity is all gearing up for the mega event. It is such a gala event not only for India but for all football playing nation across the globe that all attention related to the event are going to converge upon us, if not already happened, as to how we are going to deal with it.

It is such a pleasure to see India as organizer of events of such magnitude and All India Football Federation can certainly deserve accolades for that. Barring handful, football fans across the country was long rueing the fact that they have been deprived of firsthand experience of world class soccer.  It is not very long that with globalisation and media boom, people are being able to make feast of football bonanza across the globe by watching it on television or internet and-so-forth.  A country which craves its love for football since 1893, pre-independence era, and where victory of local soccer team over their English counterpart (Mohun Bagan for their feat of wining IFA Shield beating the East Yorkshire Regiment 2-1 in 1911) were equated with freedom struggle, had to wait this long  for event of highest level and become the part of it, tales about the sorry state of overall infrastructure  of football in our country.


  


Nevertheless, it is heartening that things have started to change and the motion of the change is in positive direction. With advent of this event, there is an evident buzz amongst people as they are getting excited with the prospect of forthcoming festivity associated with this event, mores so, because our team will also be participating. From economy to sociology, this event is going to have a deep lasting impact on our country. It is high time for authorities to provide necessary impetus to steer this wave towards improvement of the infrastructural facilities to draw more and more people to take up the game seriously. The more people gets involve with the game means the bigger market, hence sponsors will also feel interested. When sponsors start promoting, they’ll make sure that marketing of the game done globally so that there is a splurge in return. By this whole exercise, Indian Football is going to get benefited. More and more new blood will take football as profession and hence there won’t be any dearth of talent to lock horn with the best in the business.

Hope,  soon India will see organizing open age Soccer World Cup and not to mention lift  the trophy itself.

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