I am a teen from india, and the love for the sport is developing at the rate it is very visible to me. I remember when I was younger there were no groups of children playing football, now everywhere I see someone playing the sport or having a club to die for. Sadly those clubs are never Indian and professional football has a long way to go in this country, but it is better than it has ever been.
Football won't ever become as big as cricket ever At most India could become like Japan or Korea where people would support European teams only People just play or follow football just to look cool
@@HAWKsHere may be you play Some of us play because we love it But also accept it that most of people play football to look cool or becoz they can't play other sport
As an Indian, lack of infrastructure and investment in the grassroot level are the primary causes behind this. The interest and passion are definitely there.
@@randomguy7446 that is a great way to financially ruin a nation. Dual citizenship. Just ask any European countries that do it with the US or even Pakistan. The only exception to this rule is Israel, but that is because of religious inclination more than anything.
I'm from Karnataka. Football is big in India. There's just one problem, the society's elites play football here at a professional level while the common man is hated for playing football in the state.
@@ayanquereshi Namskara guru. It's the truth sadly. The rich elites here have taken over all the big football institutions while school football is at its absolute worst. Otherwise, by now a state as rich as Karnataka would have easily produced at least one European Quality player. We need a grassroots solution and I feel a strict rule where only university footballers will be selected will help a lot.
Yeah exactly i use to play football in same ground where others were playing cricket and i encourage them to Atleast try football once but all were like this is kids game.
The problem here is the lack of investment in football compared to cricket. My generation is the first Indian generation where football is also liked all over the country. In my dad’s generation most Indians bar a few states like goa West Bengal and Kerala didn’t really care much for football. India has done amazingly with grassroots in cricket. They have the players to field multiple national teams all capable of competing for the top. Such investment is needed into the grassroots for football as well 😊
See that’s a big part of the problem but I’m English with no ties to India but I come from Wolverhampton we have an enormous Indian community wolves have the oldest Indian immigrant support group in the country Punjabi wolves Indian immigrants are fairly represented within the stands but on the pitch at youth level and above there’s nowhere near that representation unfortunately unlike cricket and we have massive investment in the grassroots game so I think there might be a cultural component like the 1st generation’s preference for cricket over football leading to less people playing the game …. Just my perspective
Not only football every sports in india suffer because of politics even good players have also bribe selectors because thay were not getting chances and thats the reality every sports in india is suffering bcci is now a politics party what we can expect from government investment happen but some politicians always gonna fill that money to there pocket for there wealth
The thing with Syed Abdul Rahim was that players said he was like a friend to them, I can go on and on about him (since I've spent way too long researching him), but will give one instance that I read about: Before the 1962 Asian Games final, our players couldn't sleep so decided to meet in the hotel lobby late at night. What they didn't know, however, was that Syed Abdul Rahim was on the stairs smoking a cigarette. Rather than berating his players on being late, he told them to come take a walk with him. He knew his health was deteriorating and this would be one of, if not his last tournament, and told them "I want one gift from you all, a gold medal tomorrow". The next day, we went on to win the trophy. Even before the final, we had criticized the hosts for not allowing certain countries to attend, so the host fans were booing us. So Rahim made the decision to ditch the offside trap since players likely wouldn't hear the referee's whistle. Furthermore, our best defender in history, Jarnail Singh, had picked up a head injury in the previous match so couldn't head the ball. However, in his college days Jarnail had played at striker, so as a psychological advantage, and due to being a massive physical presence, Syed Abdul Rahim played him up top. Who scored the winning goal in that final? Jarnail Singh.
My dad and grandpa watched India defeat Australia 4-2 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in the 1956 Games and most of the Indian side played barefoot. India also toured Australia before and after WWII and played friendlies against the Socceroos & other state sides.
India's record highest margin victory also came against Australia when Australia invited India for a friendly right after the Olympics and India won 7-1 in that match
I'm managing India on fm23 just to have hindi as one of my languages. (Don't ask). I have indian league loaded but all my young players are coming through in the USA. I'm having to convince them to play for me. Syed hernandez-fernandez is my best player BTW.😂
Great video. Indian football definitely is lacking behind from other asian nations but there is some hope at least for the future. Developments in domestic leagues and identifying talent recently have been great and I wouldn't surprised if India can one day turn their fortunes around
India had its first football league in 1898 as Calcutta Football League which started just 10 years after the English League. But it was contested only by teams from Kolkata and surrounding areas mostly by British regiments with the first inclusion of Indian 'native' clubs in 1914. It also had a 2nd Division by 1905. Durand Cup is the oldest existing Asian football competition but there's another tournament, the IFA Shield which is the 2nd oldest in Asia (started 1893) which has been won by the likes of Peñarol 1985 defeating Shakhtar Donetsk in final, and in 2005 Bayern München B. It was Mohammad Salim first who got signed by a European club (Celtic FC) 1936 and later on Indian captain Talimeren Ao got an offer from Arsenal but rejected it as he was pursuing medical studies in the University of Calcutta alongside playing for Mohun Bagan.
I'm usually not a big fan of RUclipsrs / RUclips videos that just consist of the RUclipsr reading someone else's writing, but this is actually a very well-done synthesis of history and modern sources about a question I would never have had a real answer for. This really is Z at his best.
@@amreshlaldas236 thats only really in recent years. It's very obvious that cricket is the sole money maker in India. Look at the IPL, which is quite literally the second highest valued league behind the NFL. Football has fans in India and for a talent pool of 1.4 billion, we aren't really utilising it. Not to mention the whole world plays football, but not everyone plays hockey. Go to the Netherlands and Belgium and people there play football more than hockey, the discussion is more about football over there.
@@amreshlaldas236 idk if you knew this but in the recent Kuwait vs India match (which was played in Kuwait btw), most of the stadium's attendance comprised of travelling India fans. There are Indian football fans and no doubt that the people who support Brazil and Argentina also support the Indian National team when the time comes. Not to mention, we can't just again isolate ourselves with sports we are good at and ignore the ones where we aren't. About the Europe being fond of hockey part, they are just good at it. Most of the people in the Netherlands talk about Ajax being shit rather than the hockey team being no.1. Saying that every country has different sports doesn't exactly mean India should just go full isolationist. There was a point where we weren't good at cricket, should India have ignored cricket and focused on other sports then?
@@amreshlaldas236 actually, the investment put into football by the central government and state governments is pitiful. Tamil Nadu hasn't had a proper league system in months now. Not to mention, hockey is one of the sports where investments is more (best example, the past two Hockey World Cups have happened in Odisha and the more recent Asian Champions Trophy in Chennai). Not to mention it's not like only one has to be prioritised.
I actually tried to become a scout of the Indian Federation since I saw so much potential there and decided to email them with a database I made with young talents with Indian acenstry and see if they wanted to work with me. The database had almost 50 U21 players in pretty competitive team on all continents and I didn't even search that thoroughly. The country should be much higher in the rankings but as Zealand says, the current setup just make it impossible to progress.
It's interesting though because Australia also has trouble setting up a national league but we still have had constant success making it to every World Cup since 2006 which is when the A-League was set up. And Australia by all means is not a big spending on Football country but the other codes are where Australia has a lot more focus, Rugby League, AFL(Or basically the Australian variant of Gaelic Football) are more popular in Australia and bring in more money as Rugby League about 8 teams out of 11 or 12 are based in New South Wales which also has the most A-League teams. We actually have zero teams in the Northern Territory and Western Australia and South Australia have only small presence in our National sports leagues with I think 2 AFL teams and South Australia also has 2 AFL Teams and Tasmania also doesn't have much of a presence in sport.
I mean you do have the perk of having a large diaspora of European immigrants from countries big into soccer, and not having teams in NT isn't a huge loss (less than a quarter of a million people even live there). There's enough soccer in and around Sydney alone to make up for the states which are more into different sports
average ??? 😂 if today India stops playing cricket, the viewership of the sport is gonna go down so massively that in coming years rarely anyone would even care about it. Go visit Britain, even when they have cricket teams from England and Scotland, you will rarely find anyone interested in talking about it in the whole UK. India's team is probably one of the best if not the best in cricket and India is the whole reason why cricket is probably still alive, else it would be amongst other sports like Hockey about which rarely anyone cares anymore. edit: currently India is at No. 1 in ICC Rankings and you call that average ? IPL is literally the 2nd most valued sports league even more than EPL and NBA just behind NFL which is huge considering cost of living means more revenue and thus these WESTERN leagues should be earning more and yet IPL an Indian League is at 2nd place says a lot.
The Indian premier League of cricket in India is fantastic entertainment. The fans are so lively and it really helps make the matches exciting. I'm sure Indian football will be very fun to watch.
@@danjackson1016 they do have a football equivalent, called ISL.Its doing really good but tbh, its more dominated by non-Indian players so thats def not helping India
I think population and geography don't have much say in this, when your country is poor. Whether we like it or not, India is 140th in GDPP. Having a middle class life is considered great/good. So it's understandable that people are banking on education rather than sports. Arts, sports, literature etc will always take a back seat in countries like these. But India is on a developing end right now and continues to do so (if the media are right). So I am hopeful that , football development will be in the brighter spectrum those days.
@@kiranpandiyan159 yes I do agree that, we can do a lot better rather than giving bullshit excuses. But I can also see some reasons for the happenstance. Football is not the measuring scale of development in sports. These poor nations who have less GDPP than India might be doing better in football, but what about other sports? I think overall ,we are still outperforming them if you take the sports as a whole. We do have an established sport like cricket as frontier, and we are pioneers of that sport too. So taking other sports to that level will take time, because football is a team game and played by 200 countries. So it's not easy to bring glory in football and put some national attention to develop the culture steadfastly. But let's hope for a new dawn like every indian football fanatic.
The thing is, look at Brazil, and Argentina. Hardly brimming with money, yet widely renowned as 2 of the most successful football nations in the world. football and sport can BECOME income and a career. I am reading here from a lot of Indians that this generation is becoming the first one to truly be passionate about football. That passion is where it starts, if that has not been there before, then the demand for facilities and support would have been lacking. Perhaps as its popularity increases, additional state funding will become available to scout and nurture young talent in the same way it is done for cricket.
Fr fr We enjoy cricket because that's the only Sport we are good at(There are many, but cricket is the most popular) Just ask to urself, why would an American be fan of Cricket? This is quite similar 👍
I am from West Bengal, India. My state is called "Mecca of Indian Football" as the state is filled with golden history of originating Indian Football along Kerala too. Indian Football has improved a bit over the years and much too basic demands which we pressurized on them upon a time is less now.... With incumbent cabinet taking over AIFF, they are bringing a lot of changes with which we are happy with. I know this is just the beginning, but it's awesome. ISL will be expanded to promotion-relegation phase until 16 teams are coming up, I-League-ISL top league status debate concluded with ISL being top league of the country and bringing in professionalism in L-League too(now I-League is 2nd division), MoUs are benefitting the youth teams for more exposure.... Major issue is (1) infrastructure, (2) grassroots level and support of masses. 1 and 2 is in progression stage but the mass crowd support is a question only. Hope we will be the best team in Asia one day and play World Cup soon!
I am from West Bangal, India. Here Both football and cricket is similarly popular. I grew up playing both the sports. Bengal is one of the best state for footballers. Most of the National leagues have been won by clubs of Kolkata. But the thing is on a national level there's hardly any investment coming up in football, where in cricket 🏏 every year Cricket board, which is private entity, is generating and investing 10-20 Billion dollars all over the country. There's absolutely no chance football can get that much amount. Only few states people watches the sports and even they are only interested in local clubs games or world up games. Very few people actually knows anything about the national team. But we are always hopeful to make it to the world cup one day
I started following the youtube channel of the Indian league, they are not too bad but the best players are foreigners , there is also a channel on youtube where they show the bangladesh leagues matches
There not the worst but the foreign players are there for easy pay days and are usually 30+ look at Nesta or others who had stints In India they hardly played but helped off the pitch
Even if FIFA doesn't care. They actually should just on Marketing alone. IF they manage to make India good at Football, they will easily get an additional 100 million views at least. Indian fandom is more similar to South East Asia than Far East Asia. This means if they manage to love a sport, they will become crazy about it. Meaning India could become a huge market.
@@falconeshield only way to get the people interested is by investing it and promoting it. Its more of a government issue TBH. I do think if they promoted it, a lot of people would get into it. I mean the way i see it, India could easily be the Brazil of Asia. The climate is similar as well as the society.
It's not like there is no interest for Indian football. There's the Kolkata Derby which is the oldest and one of the fiercest derby in Asia between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal regularly packing over 80k fans in the stadium and a Indian sporting record 136k attendance in 1997 Federation Cup Derby. Then there's emerging clubs like Kerala Blasters, Bengaluru FC and others who are enjoying good support from their fans. But the majority of Indian "football fans" are mostly drawn towards European footballer with most of them being not aware of Indian domestic football. Some scenes from the 2015 Kolkata Derby: ruclips.net/video/xrS49wfqFaM/видео.html Scenes from 1997 record 136k attendance Derby: ruclips.net/video/nG3PuczDI0Y/видео.html
If I remember correctly, Japan and South Korea don't allow dual citizenship for adults, either. I think India's problem is that it's a huge country, making any centralized effort at improving things hard. And cricket is something they are already good at.
Japan requires dual citizens to surrender their non-Japanese citizenship at about age 23. From what I've heard, those who are duals just ignore this and no one seems to ask for proof.
Indian States where football is more popular need to build more infrastructure rather than trying to build it all over India. Might work that way. India is a large enough nation. Even if one or two states dedicate to a sport they can produce international players with proper effort.
I guess it DOES make sense that Goa is one of Indian states that likes football the most, given the whole Portuguese ancestry there... Also, in my FM20 save, after leaving the management of my hometown club (where I started the save), Punjab FC invited me to coach there. Won one Durand cup, and when I thought it was a weird name for an Indian football cup, I research it and found out it was founded by a British general of the army.
In that sense India was also French and ofc British colony right !!!and England invented the sport(at least theoretically) of course India should've been way higher given its former glory
Its actually crazy considering the Indian population in the UK that India doesnt have a good national team. Tho it been sorta the same with Surinam and the Netherlands for years and that only recently changed (2/3 year ago if i am correct). Would be really helpfull if India had a similar plan.
That's because the immigrated population prefers academics and high paying jobs they really don't like sports. Cricket only because india won something in it still they won't care much to send their kids in sports. Like it's not common. Probably will change with the new generation. Also diaspora players playing for the national team is not possible as we don't allow dual citizenship so they have to give their brit passport even if they give it's not an easy process. U might ask why but that's basically because of security concerns.
Would be interesting to see a similar one for China. I know they qualified for a World Cup but only because South Korea and Japan automatically qualified with being hosts and even with all the money they put in to their league and infrastructure etc, they still haven’t qualified for another World Cup . They might do so now with the expanded format but let’s see
China has learnt that it needs to invest in grassroots and not just the league (reasons for wage caps etc), Xi Jinping loves football and I’m sure we’ll see China’s rise in the next decade or 2. Especially as they have the advantage of their people being somewhat well off and large government spending in all areas.
tbh one on the Chinese women's teams sliding doors moment in the 1990's would be just as interesting for me. If they beat the US in the US in 1999, who knows what happens with the sport.
Interesting bit of trivia: China actually almost qualified for the 1982 World Cup but were defeated by New Zealand in a playoff between the AFC and the OFC
Brilliant content, i think the crux of the matter has been very well explained, OCI representation is very important to improve the national team, players like Vikas Dhorasoo, Micheal Chopra and many others could have represented India
I remember seeing a couple of games from the Indian league about maybe 20 years ago There were a couple of things missing from games that we have here in Scotland: 1. Grass on the pitch 2. Boots. I remember there were 2 players who were not wearing boots. They had kits, sponsors and so on. I’d always thought it was footballing law
@@mohammedhydertungekar9888 If India could get a bit of sponsorship money into their game, if could be a real game-changer for millions of families I know a lot of people think they have it bad here, but there are sectiond of India where the Funchal burden on families is crippling. This is where sport can make such a difference.: if the league could get decent money behind it, then have that money filter into clubs, the clubs have that money filter into a youth team, the youth team have that money filter into players… How many people have been revues from desperate situations, all because they were good at a sport? Even if the stats were 1 in every 500,000 people are going to be good at football, that’s only a fraction of the Indian population but the lives it could change…
@@mohammedhydertungekar9888 India needs money pumped into the game. There are millions of potential footballers in India and, if sone well, there’s a great opportunity for hundreds of thousands of young men and women to pull their families out of poverty and have, at the very least, a comfortable life. That’s money pumped back into the Indian economy and would see a growth in all aspects of life. If the players, the league sbd the national team grow to their potential, there’s an opportunity for money on a par with many of the top European leagues to come in through sponsorships, tv rights, transfer money… there is absolutely huge potential in India, but there’s a lot of barriers in the way just now, not helped by the view of India on the world stage not helped by many governments and corruption. Huge, huge potential for India to be a big player on the world stage but it needs to start from within India but how many of its few millionaires will put the money they need/deserve into tge game? If only they’d stop buying themselves solid gold shirts and use their wealth productively
The Philippines is also in this similar situation, the difference is that Philippines never got to the point where FIFA banned them, many people prefer to invest to basketball instead of football, superstars such as Messi, Ronaldo and Pele are barely known. The Philippines only received a little awakening when they qualified to women's world cup. I think due to FIFA rankings, Younghusband has to leave Chelsea same goes to Schrock has to leave Frankfurt.
The Younghusbands went to the Philippines because some Filipino player found their names from Football Manager and since the PFF was active in searching for Filipino players playing abroad, they were brought into the Philippines. They began playing in 2006 then fully moved there in 2009 to be with their mother (who died in 2012). Schrock was also in PFF's radar ever since 2009 until he joined in 2011. Also the Women's national team qualifying for the Women's World Cup just created a bit of buzz, but not that much as it pales in comparison to the Azkals' performance in 2010 AFF cup. The Miracle in Hanoi and the semifinals in Indonesia during the 2010 AFF Cup are the ones that made most of the Filipinos open their eyes in the world of football.
Tbh I found the Philippines national team underperformed frequently even though they have many European based players in their squad like Etheridge, Schröck and more recently, Holtmann.
@@NoLuckJKMY807lack of preparations and management issues. They don't train together to prepare and familiarize, and most of the time they just meet at the stadium at match day. Also they change coaches every 2 months so they constantly shift through various systems and styles of play. Also recently, many players they recruited are not interested in committing for the national team and instead they just receive 1-2 caps so they'll be eligible for ASEAN quota in Thai league and Malaysia Super League. (Not gonna name them) Also Philippines' local league is in shambles after the big clubs like Loyola, Global, Davao, JPV and Ceres left and what remains in the league are the mediocre ones. So yes, it's actually a total mess there
Trust me, even if the entire NT was filled with diaspora players like Yan Dhanda and Danny Batth, they'd get full support. Indians love backing diaspora in any field lmao
Yan Dhanda literally begged to be played but he was tod they can't get him a passport. We have this stupid law which benefits no one. (Okay it does benefit someone maybe)
Damn, wish I could have been there. Had to listen to the game on Mixr, as here in the US, that's the only way I can listen to broadcasts of Weymouth's games. Weymouth just beat Taunton Town today, 3-1. As a Weymouth fan, GREAT GAME!!! Now, Weymouth needs to WIN their game against Dover on Saturday (4/29/23) in order to avoid relegation. Up the Terras!!
I think the major reason for Football not being played on a large scale on a grassroots level, is that, legacy of Cricket has done too much in comparison to other sports. Football can only rise in India, if children play football whenever they think of playing a game, and interest, investment will go hand in hand onwards.
Zealand the reason India does not allow foreign nationals is because our Govt thinks it will reduce oppurtunities to Indians and the reason our constitution does not allow dual citizenship is in case there is a conflict of Intrest betwwen the two nations the person should not support the other nation
I have family in Indonesia. Footbal is 1 of the biggest sports there aswell. The biggest problem there I think is that the biggest sport talents get recruted into the army once they turn 18 years old (poor families). + rich people pay to have their children play in the big leagues and the national team. If the coach dissagrees he is fired.
There is lots of Half Indian half english in england aswell kind of like half english half irish and half english half african so if they change that overseas rules they would be allowed to play for India. Just like lots of players who cant get into the England team they can play for like Nigeria, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, USA and India could do the same.
Bro it's not something that can Just be done for football and I bet they won't do it for cricket either for the bill to be passed such a small reason is not gonna cut it
Chhetri's work permit didn't get rejected (only) because India's world ranking is outside top 70. There's a point table for getting a governing body endorsement for a visa from the FA and a player's track record in club football is even more important especially coming from a weaker football country outside Europe. Playing only in India doesn't obviously score high enough. But playing for a certain country is a part of the issue: rule of thumb is it's easy to get the endorsement if you're a national team player from a top 50 football country or a European player and quite hard if you're not. Anyway it's rather dumb and arbitrary to have such criteria, making a player contract to the best league in the world should be endorsing enough.
Funnily enough, I was discussing with a Dutch colleague about Dutch cricketing woes, despite the fact that the Netherlands has one of the oldest cricketing federations, it is a complete non entity in the sport. And for pretty much the same reasons.
When you say a national team can be comprised of other nationals or who have born in other countries it's okay when you are a small country but not like a country like India where we take pride in the national team yes of course we won't give such importance other sports like cricket but we are slowly picking it up Playing for the country is not just for the titles it's more than that it's about pride
I am from India, and according to me the rise in passion for football is increasing at a very rapid rate especially among teens, all thanks to the world cup. Almost in every single ground in my vicinity, i can see kids playing football during the evenings. The popularity of European club football is surging in India. All it takes, is a little push in the form of proper infrastructure and support and football will easily oust cricket as the main sport in India, especially when today's teens become young adults. We just gotta wait some more years..
No they didn't...They were already working there....They were also getting more cost effective tickets as they were living there, just as it happens at every world cup...
@@Mark-ib2st Yes, it is called legal migration. It happens everywhere. These people were living there and attended games. Just as it happens in any country.
@@TCGTales no one mentioned the legality of anything. I said Qatar imported migrant workers and you said they didn't, then said they had migrant workers 🤦🏻♂️
Cricket has that place in India which Football has in Europe Companies Invest and Promote Cricket but not many companies reach out to football federation of India for support Just Lack of Infrastructute and Interest in people
Wonderful video. As a born and raised Canadian with Indian roots I have always wanted to see India succeed in soccer/football. However, their lack of success has been confounding, given the country's huge passion for the sport. How gigantic is this conundrum? It is absurd to think that India has a local derby that has a century long tradition (between the club teams of Mohun Bagan and East Bengal) held in the city of Kolkata that manages to fill a 120,000 seat stadium annually (which by the way was 2nd largest soccer/football stadium in the world for many years), yet the country fails to produce a world class team in the sport. Another interesting fact: India and China hold about 37% of the world's population yet neither country has been typically represented in the FIFA WC. Fun conspiracy theory: In the long run (over the next 20 years let's say), with the FIFA WC expanding to 48 teams, there will be a much higher chance that one of these teams, if not both, sneak into the WC. Wouldn't FIFA just love that?
8 Allotted Qualifying slots for Asia This time Looks like FIFA has lot more Interest In India and China Qualifying for The WC Rather than China And India does. If we failed to qualify this time next time They wlil make it 64 teams tournament lol fifa wants all the money they can get from India and China from Broadcast rights and crowd attendance
Great Video, i had a fun video idea that could branch off of this. why england can't win a world cup. Think its an interesting story from the founders involving psychology pressure etc
India during it's Golden period was crowned as the brazil of ASIA And india is the inventor of 4-2-4 formation and used this even before brazil started using it and popularised it.....
To develop football in India the highest authority in India PM should support football. The present PM does not know much about football. So former Odisha CM Mr.Naveen Patnaick or present CM of Kerala Mr.Pinarayi Vijayan should become the PM of India.
I wonder if Zealand would make a video about how bad Sri Lanka is in football? (They are currently ranked fifth from bottom worldwide and last in Asia)
The point that some people have been using against OCI participation in the Indian national team is that once we become dependant on OCI we will become just dependant on OCI players and the development in grassroots wont happen. In fact its the contrary, once India starts doing well in major tournaments due to overseas players, the sport will get more popular in the country and in turn more kids will start playing the sport and thus the landscape of football will improve in the country. Morocco is the prime example of how having overseas players have helped them in short term and them doing great in the World Cup will in turn help them big time in the long term.
@@jaihind9394 china is interested in football lol they are investing billions of money in their football infrastructure only south asia plays a stupid game called krikit 🤡.
all those giving excuses here of not having proper infrastructure and support should shut their mouths cos we cant even compete with Syria and Iraq both countries suffered or still suffering from war does these countries have better infrastructure and support i don't think so these are same people blaming cricket for football's downfall in India in order to get the support you need to prove yourself you need to win which don't happen often or happens very rarely maybe if we are playing against Nepal or Bhutan in 10yrs time they also would start beating us. when i watch Indian team playing i find them Being slow not one player would be able to clear international fitness test they can even be beaten by a club level women football team that's how bad they are i am an Indian and it really hurt when i see my country get defeated in every tournament that they play
I am literally shocked that u covered that topic so perfectly❤... But after all of this now the AIFF doing some fabulous job and I hope it will develop the game in our country
Always appreciate the level of detail in these videos! For the near future I can't see football overtaking cricket in any meaningful way and that's not necessarily a bad thing
@@amreshlaldas236yeah we see those "rural" fans during RCB, MI, KKR matches 😂😂😂. Every celebrity in India attends cricket matches from Bollywood to billionaires .Indian football is shit and even thousand fans don't make up system.
@@amreshlaldas236 There are very few nations who are Good at multiple multiplayer FIELD sports. India is one of them, we are good in cricket and hockey.
Why play football when there is cricket in India? The quality of a game is judged based on its flexibility. We humans are born with different talents. Cricket encourages wider range of talents than football. Football only encourages limited talents. Football's talents basically had to do with the quickness of the feet and kicking the ball. In cricket, one can be a batsman (either left handed or right handed). As for bowlers in cricket, there are different types of bowling. One can be fast bowlers (either left handed or right handed), spin bowlers (either left handed or right handed), etc. Some people are excellent fielders while there are others who are excellent wicket keepers. So cricket encourages wider range of talents. In cricket, one can also place a runner if one has difficulty in running while batting. I remember a kid who couldn't play football since he had difficulty in running. But he was an excellent batsman and he had a runner running for him.
Other opinions and hobies exsist, i hope you realize that. Not everyone likes cricket and not everyone likes football, majority is football since like 3 billlion people watch it but still not everyone likes it
@@ziadkhaled4312 Whether ones like a game (whether it be cricket or football) or not is a matter of personal preference. That is not how the quality of a game is judged. The quality of a game is judged based on the flexibility of talents it offers. In that regard, cricket is far superior to football since cricket gives wider range of room for different talents.
@@ziadkhaled4312 You still don't understand. Like I pointed out before, the topic of liking or disliking is a matter of personal preferences. The same thing goes for enjoyment and agreement. Whether anyone agrees with me or not is a matter of personal preference as well. What matters is validity. Not personal preferences. What I said are absolutely true since they are perfectly logical. We humans are born with different talents. The game's quality is judged based on the wide range of talents it offers. In that regard, cricket is far better than football.
Fun fact, before India refused to join FIFA in favour of the Olympics, India used to be one of the best countries in the world at football. Many Indian teams were winning against English officer teams in India, and the whole national team got to visit the monarch due to their win against France.
They just need a Bollywood movie to promote football
Lmaooo lowkey fax
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They are actually making exactly that named 'maidan'
@@nikhilgill no way thats a w man
Wont work. They did one for Hockey and didn't work out.
I am a teen from india, and the love for the sport is developing at the rate it is very visible to me. I remember when I was younger there were no groups of children playing football, now everywhere I see someone playing the sport or having a club to die for. Sadly those clubs are never Indian and professional football has a long way to go in this country, but it is better than it has ever been.
Football won't ever become as big as cricket ever
At most India could become like Japan or Korea where people would support European teams only
People just play or follow football just to look cool
@@iameverywhere8551 bro i play it because i love it , why tf would i wanna look coole
@@iameverywhere8551 What?😂
@@iameverywhere8551 well if you only try to look cool in front of guys who love football , you will only look like a fool
@@HAWKsHere may be you play
Some of us play because we love it
But also accept it that most of people play football to look cool or becoz they can't play other sport
As an Indian, lack of infrastructure and investment in the grassroot level are the primary causes behind this. The interest and passion are definitely there.
Yep. All the infrastructure just always goes to cricket. Even though Hcokey is our national sport, it gets no funding. Cricket on the other hand…
You just saved 12 minutes of my life , thanks.
Not excuse,so many people,just no tallent,physical also sux,,indian just dont want admit,,
@@uhm7293 hockey is NOT the national sport
@@anuragpatel1476 what? That’s what my mom always told me as a kid
Michael Chopra tried to play for India too but couldn't because of dual citizenship and this is a player that played in the English Premier League
Yes during AFC Asian cup 2011.
Look who is talking. Micheal's best friend 😉
@@SomeOrdinaryGamer. Michael!
India need to allow double citizenship for sportman otherwise it will always lag behind
@@randomguy7446 that is a great way to financially ruin a nation. Dual citizenship. Just ask any European countries that do it with the US or even Pakistan. The only exception to this rule is Israel, but that is because of religious inclination more than anything.
I'm from Karnataka. Football is big in India. There's just one problem, the society's elites play football here at a professional level while the common man is hated for playing football in the state.
Yar andidu, everyone plays it
@@ayanquereshi Namskara guru. It's the truth sadly. The rich elites here have taken over all the big football institutions while school football is at its absolute worst. Otherwise, by now a state as rich as Karnataka would have easily produced at least one European Quality player. We need a grassroots solution and I feel a strict rule where only university footballers will be selected will help a lot.
@@lohithpaladugu6456 Aduhelalike mathara. There is a slowly growing but powerful football community. All we need is one World Cup Qualification.
chal make an idli for me anna in ur lungi
Yeah exactly i use to play football in same ground where others were playing cricket and i encourage them to Atleast try football once but all were like this is kids game.
Thank you @zealand , for putting it out there . As as Indian fan , I sincerely hope AIFF gets things in order. Love your content
The problem here is the lack of investment in football compared to cricket. My generation is the first Indian generation where football is also liked all over the country. In my dad’s generation most Indians bar a few states like goa West Bengal and Kerala didn’t really care much for football. India has done amazingly with grassroots in cricket. They have the players to field multiple national teams all capable of competing for the top. Such investment is needed into the grassroots for football as well 😊
See that’s a big part of the problem but I’m English with no ties to India but I come from Wolverhampton we have an enormous Indian community wolves have the oldest Indian immigrant support group in the country Punjabi wolves Indian immigrants are fairly represented within the stands but on the pitch at youth level and above there’s nowhere near that representation unfortunately unlike cricket and we have massive investment in the grassroots game so I think there might be a cultural component like the 1st generation’s preference for cricket over football leading to less people playing the game …. Just my perspective
Not only football every sports in india suffer because of politics even good players have also bribe selectors because thay were not getting chances and thats the reality every sports in india is suffering bcci is now a politics party what we can expect from government investment happen but some politicians always gonna fill that money to there pocket for there wealth
@@nayftv portugal b team
@@ghillie7948 that’s Portugal a team to you
@Bruce Wayne winning a test series in Australia is a pretty massive achievement
The thing with Syed Abdul Rahim was that players said he was like a friend to them, I can go on and on about him (since I've spent way too long researching him), but will give one instance that I read about:
Before the 1962 Asian Games final, our players couldn't sleep so decided to meet in the hotel lobby late at night. What they didn't know, however, was that Syed Abdul Rahim was on the stairs smoking a cigarette. Rather than berating his players on being late, he told them to come take a walk with him. He knew his health was deteriorating and this would be one of, if not his last tournament, and told them "I want one gift from you all, a gold medal tomorrow". The next day, we went on to win the trophy.
Even before the final, we had criticized the hosts for not allowing certain countries to attend, so the host fans were booing us. So Rahim made the decision to ditch the offside trap since players likely wouldn't hear the referee's whistle. Furthermore, our best defender in history, Jarnail Singh, had picked up a head injury in the previous match so couldn't head the ball. However, in his college days Jarnail had played at striker, so as a psychological advantage, and due to being a massive physical presence, Syed Abdul Rahim played him up top. Who scored the winning goal in that final? Jarnail Singh.
Damn bro, I didn't know this, thanks
Great story, thanks for sharing
Nicely written.
My dad and grandpa watched India defeat Australia 4-2 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in the 1956 Games and most of the Indian side played barefoot.
India also toured Australia before and after WWII and played friendlies against the Socceroos & other state sides.
India's record highest margin victory also came against Australia when Australia invited India for a friendly right after the Olympics and India won 7-1 in that match
Wow dude. That's insane ❤
playing barefoot was just retarded, let's be honest lmao
That's a past.
That's like 70 years back🤣
Football is way more developed now, harder and more intense with huge competition
I'm managing India on fm23 just to have hindi as one of my languages. (Don't ask). I have indian league loaded but all my young players are coming through in the USA. I'm having to convince them to play for me.
Syed hernandez-fernandez is my best player BTW.😂
Allow India to play matches without shoes again, as they will dominate!
Nub there are actually players named George Washington, Stalin, ronaldo, leonardo playing in India.
@@TCGTales😂😂😂 wtf bro
Great video. Indian football definitely is lacking behind from other asian nations but there is some hope at least for the future. Developments in domestic leagues and identifying talent recently have been great and I wouldn't surprised if India can one day turn their fortunes around
Indians aren't Asian
India had its first football league in 1898 as Calcutta Football League which started just 10 years after the English League. But it was contested only by teams from Kolkata and surrounding areas mostly by British regiments with the first inclusion of Indian 'native' clubs in 1914. It also had a 2nd Division by 1905.
Durand Cup is the oldest existing Asian football competition but there's another tournament, the IFA Shield which is the 2nd oldest in Asia (started 1893) which has been won by the likes of Peñarol 1985 defeating Shakhtar Donetsk in final, and in 2005 Bayern München B.
It was Mohammad Salim first who got signed by a European club (Celtic FC) 1936 and later on Indian captain Talimeren Ao got an offer from Arsenal but rejected it as he was pursuing medical studies in the University of Calcutta alongside playing for Mohun Bagan.
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the most indian thing ever, gets offered to play under chapman becomes a doctor instead lmaoo
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@@ea6761 India plays real life football, not like the virtual football you play on your phone
@@adityadebnath4952 stick to cricket
I'm usually not a big fan of RUclipsrs / RUclips videos that just consist of the RUclipsr reading someone else's writing, but this is actually a very well-done synthesis of history and modern sources about a question I would never have had a real answer for. This really is Z at his best.
As an Indian football fan, this is a well researched and very good video. Hopefully things will work out better for Indian football in the future.
@@amreshlaldas236 thats only really in recent years. It's very obvious that cricket is the sole money maker in India. Look at the IPL, which is quite literally the second highest valued league behind the NFL. Football has fans in India and for a talent pool of 1.4 billion, we aren't really utilising it. Not to mention the whole world plays football, but not everyone plays hockey. Go to the Netherlands and Belgium and people there play football more than hockey, the discussion is more about football over there.
@@amreshlaldas236 idk if you knew this but in the recent Kuwait vs India match (which was played in Kuwait btw), most of the stadium's attendance comprised of travelling India fans. There are Indian football fans and no doubt that the people who support Brazil and Argentina also support the Indian National team when the time comes. Not to mention, we can't just again isolate ourselves with sports we are good at and ignore the ones where we aren't.
About the Europe being fond of hockey part, they are just good at it. Most of the people in the Netherlands talk about Ajax being shit rather than the hockey team being no.1. Saying that every country has different sports doesn't exactly mean India should just go full isolationist. There was a point where we weren't good at cricket, should India have ignored cricket and focused on other sports then?
@@amreshlaldas236 actually, the investment put into football by the central government and state governments is pitiful. Tamil Nadu hasn't had a proper league system in months now. Not to mention, hockey is one of the sports where investments is more (best example, the past two Hockey World Cups have happened in Odisha and the more recent Asian Champions Trophy in Chennai). Not to mention it's not like only one has to be prioritised.
Great video. And I love how he says he'll be in Taunton on the 25th "a few day after this video comes out" it was 1pm in England on the 25th lol
I actually tried to become a scout of the Indian Federation since I saw so much potential there and decided to email them with a database I made with young talents with Indian acenstry and see if they wanted to work with me. The database had almost 50 U21 players in pretty competitive team on all continents and I didn't even search that thoroughly. The country should be much higher in the rankings but as Zealand says, the current setup just make it impossible to progress.
Did they accept the offer?
@@shubhamupadhyay844 Sadly, no
@@WorldWide_Scoutingwhat was their explanation?
@@Z71990 They never got back to me.
Indian football has the oldest asian derby. They have HISTORY.
It's interesting though because Australia also has trouble setting up a national league but we still have had constant success making it to every World Cup since 2006 which is when the A-League was set up. And Australia by all means is not a big spending on Football country but the other codes are where Australia has a lot more focus, Rugby League, AFL(Or basically the Australian variant of Gaelic Football) are more popular in Australia and bring in more money as Rugby League about 8 teams out of 11 or 12 are based in New South Wales which also has the most A-League teams.
We actually have zero teams in the Northern Territory and Western Australia and South Australia have only small presence in our National sports leagues with I think 2 AFL teams and South Australia also has 2 AFL Teams and Tasmania also doesn't have much of a presence in sport.
I mean you do have the perk of having a large diaspora of European immigrants from countries big into soccer, and not having teams in NT isn't a huge loss (less than a quarter of a million people even live there). There's enough soccer in and around Sydney alone to make up for the states which are more into different sports
Tasmania have Hobart hurricanes and lumberjacks.
India has seeked comfort in being average at cricket, now every other sport is suffering.
why football? it not even the 2nd most popular sport in India.
@@saandilyaagundu5697 what he said is that India sucks pretty much at every sport and doesn't excel in any. He's right
Average? BRO WE ARE THE NO 1 CRICKET TEAM IN THE WORLD AND I AM A FOOTBALL FAN WHO DON'T EVEN PLAY CRICKET
average ??? 😂
if today India stops playing cricket, the viewership of the sport is gonna go down so massively that in coming years rarely anyone would even care about it.
Go visit Britain, even when they have cricket teams from England and Scotland, you will rarely find anyone interested in talking about it in the whole UK.
India's team is probably one of the best if not the best in cricket and India is the whole reason why cricket is probably still alive, else it would be amongst other sports like Hockey about which rarely anyone cares anymore.
edit: currently India is at No. 1 in ICC Rankings and you call that average ? IPL is literally the 2nd most valued sports league even more than EPL and NBA just behind NFL which is huge considering cost of living means more revenue and thus these WESTERN leagues should be earning more and yet IPL an Indian League is at 2nd place says a lot.
😂 oh god your calling us average🤓 yea sure bro
India's football is expanding now,that's the greatest thing I saw after I born
The Indian premier League of cricket in India is fantastic entertainment. The fans are so lively and it really helps make the matches exciting. I'm sure Indian football will be very fun to watch.
Did u watched it ? And u are from which country ?
@@Z71990 I watched the IPL when it showed here. Haven't seen any Indian football yet. I'm from England.
@@danjackson1016 they do have a football equivalent, called ISL.Its doing really good but tbh, its more dominated by non-Indian players so thats def not helping India
I think population and geography don't have much say in this, when your country is poor. Whether we like it or not, India is 140th in GDPP. Having a middle class life is considered great/good. So it's understandable that people are banking on education rather than sports. Arts, sports, literature etc will always take a back seat in countries like these.
But India is on a developing end right now and continues to do so (if the media are right). So I am hopeful that , football development will be in the brighter spectrum those days.
Bro there are poorer countries in africa who do it much better. We just give BS reasons
@@kiranpandiyan159 yes I do agree that, we can do a lot better rather than giving bullshit excuses. But I can also see some reasons for the happenstance.
Football is not the measuring scale of development in sports. These poor nations who have less GDPP than India might be doing better in football, but what about other sports? I think overall ,we are still outperforming them if you take the sports as a whole. We do have an established sport like cricket as frontier, and we are pioneers of that sport too. So taking other sports to that level will take time, because football is a team game and played by 200 countries. So it's not easy to bring glory in football and put some national attention to develop the culture steadfastly. But let's hope for a new dawn like every indian football fanatic.
@@kiranpandiyan159 Most countries in africa are not poor, the people are poor, because of the corrupt government
The thing is, look at Brazil, and Argentina. Hardly brimming with money, yet widely renowned as 2 of the most successful football nations in the world.
football and sport can BECOME income and a career. I am reading here from a lot of Indians that this generation is becoming the first one to truly be passionate about football. That passion is where it starts, if that has not been there before, then the demand for facilities and support would have been lacking. Perhaps as its popularity increases, additional state funding will become available to scout and nurture young talent in the same way it is done for cricket.
India sucks at some other really important things too 😂. Football is quite low on priority.
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We enjoy cricket because that's the only Sport we are good at(There are many, but cricket is the most popular)
Just ask to urself, why would an American be fan of Cricket? This is quite similar 👍
I am from West Bengal, India. My state is called "Mecca of Indian Football" as the state is filled with golden history of originating Indian Football along Kerala too. Indian Football has improved a bit over the years and much too basic demands which we pressurized on them upon a time is less now.... With incumbent cabinet taking over AIFF, they are bringing a lot of changes with which we are happy with. I know this is just the beginning, but it's awesome. ISL will be expanded to promotion-relegation phase until 16 teams are coming up, I-League-ISL top league status debate concluded with ISL being top league of the country and bringing in professionalism in L-League too(now I-League is 2nd division), MoUs are benefitting the youth teams for more exposure.... Major issue is (1) infrastructure, (2) grassroots level and support of masses. 1 and 2 is in progression stage but the mass crowd support is a question only. Hope we will be the best team in Asia one day and play World Cup soon!
What is fucking Mecca 😛
@@dudewith.noname It's upon football pundits terming Kolkata as "Birthplace of Indian Football"!
@@meboy5495 Its a holy place for Muslim not the shit like banarosi
@bruhh5933 And Keralites are beaten by Nature all the time
@bruhh5933😂😂 what Kerala blasters are a child Team created in 2014 and here in Bengal we have 3 big clubs which are 100+ of years old ..
My only knowledge of Indian football is that Bengaluru have a partnership with Rangers and that David Robertson, Ex Rangers was managing there
Well there's going to be a lot of people in Bangalore who inexplicably hate Catholics I guess!
The main reason India don’t play football, is because every time they win a corner, they build a shop.
Well it's used up joke yet funny. But guess what will happen if we build football shops at the corner.
We build they because your mom allowed us to build.
XD
I've obsevered that people in india are interested in football, there is just not the infrastructure.
I am from West Bangal, India. Here Both football and cricket is similarly popular. I grew up playing both the sports. Bengal is one of the best state for footballers. Most of the National leagues have been won by clubs of Kolkata. But the thing is on a national level there's hardly any investment coming up in football, where in cricket 🏏 every year Cricket board, which is private entity, is generating and investing 10-20 Billion dollars all over the country. There's absolutely no chance football can get that much amount. Only few states people watches the sports and even they are only interested in local clubs games or world up games. Very few people actually knows anything about the national team. But we are always hopeful to make it to the world cup one day
I started following the youtube channel of the Indian league, they are not too bad but the best players are foreigners , there is also a channel on youtube where they show the bangladesh leagues matches
There not the worst but the foreign players are there for easy pay days and are usually 30+ look at Nesta or others who had stints In India they hardly played but helped off the pitch
Even if FIFA doesn't care. They actually should just on Marketing alone. IF they manage to make India good at Football, they will easily get an additional 100 million views at least. Indian fandom is more similar to South East Asia than Far East Asia. This means if they manage to love a sport, they will become crazy about it. Meaning India could become a huge market.
No point of the huge market if they're not interested
@@falconeshield only way to get the people interested is by investing it and promoting it.
Its more of a government issue TBH.
I do think if they promoted it, a lot of people would get into it.
I mean the way i see it, India could easily be the Brazil of Asia. The climate is similar as well as the society.
@@unnamedshadow1866India was known as the Brazil of Asia in 50s and 60s
It's not like there is no interest for Indian football.
There's the Kolkata Derby which is the oldest and one of the fiercest derby in Asia between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal regularly packing over 80k fans in the stadium and a Indian sporting record 136k attendance in 1997 Federation Cup Derby. Then there's emerging clubs like Kerala Blasters, Bengaluru FC and others who are enjoying good support from their fans.
But the majority of Indian "football fans" are mostly drawn towards European footballer with most of them being not aware of Indian domestic football.
Some scenes from the 2015 Kolkata Derby: ruclips.net/video/xrS49wfqFaM/видео.html
Scenes from 1997 record 136k attendance Derby: ruclips.net/video/nG3PuczDI0Y/видео.html
If I remember correctly, Japan and South Korea don't allow dual citizenship for adults, either. I think India's problem is that it's a huge country, making any centralized effort at improving things hard. And cricket is something they are already good at.
Japan requires dual citizens to surrender their non-Japanese citizenship at about age 23. From what I've heard, those who are duals just ignore this and no one seems to ask for proof.
Indian States where football is more popular need to build more infrastructure rather than trying to build it all over India. Might work that way.
India is a large enough nation. Even if one or two states dedicate to a sport they can produce international players with proper effort.
@@gabbar51ngh absolutely. South India is growing massively in football. The north will gradually follow.
I guess it DOES make sense that Goa is one of Indian states that likes football the most, given the whole Portuguese ancestry there... Also, in my FM20 save, after leaving the management of my hometown club (where I started the save), Punjab FC invited me to coach there. Won one Durand cup, and when I thought it was a weird name for an Indian football cup, I research it and found out it was founded by a British general of the army.
Its not ancestry, its just colonialism
Oldest football tournament in asia
@@muslimcel4581 3rd oldest in the world
In that sense India was also French and ofc British colony right !!!and England invented the sport(at least theoretically) of course India should've been way higher given its former glory
You haven't seen the side of Kerala, the love of that sport
Yesterday by seeing the u-17 match between IND and RM , I felt good, yeah it was a tie of 3-3 but by seeing the history it really feels good
This video totally reminded me of the movie 'Bend it like Beckham'. Which is for those who dont know a movie about woman football in India.
Its actually crazy considering the Indian population in the UK that India doesnt have a good national team. Tho it been sorta the same with Surinam and the Netherlands for years and that only recently changed (2/3 year ago if i am correct). Would be really helpfull if India had a similar plan.
That's because the immigrated population prefers academics and high paying jobs they really don't like sports. Cricket only because india won something in it still they won't care much to send their kids in sports. Like it's not common. Probably will change with the new generation. Also diaspora players playing for the national team is not possible as we don't allow dual citizenship so they have to give their brit passport even if they give it's not an easy process. U might ask why but that's basically because of security concerns.
@@mtk3755 my friend was such a good cricket player he played state level and now he is doing
Engineering 😅
Solid video Z.
Would be interesting to see a similar one for China. I know they qualified for a World Cup but only because South Korea and Japan automatically qualified with being hosts and even with all the money they put in to their league and infrastructure etc, they still haven’t qualified for another World Cup . They might do so now with the expanded format but let’s see
China has learnt that it needs to invest in grassroots and not just the league (reasons for wage caps etc), Xi Jinping loves football and I’m sure we’ll see China’s rise in the next decade or 2. Especially as they have the advantage of their people being somewhat well off and large government spending in all areas.
tbh one on the Chinese women's teams sliding doors moment in the 1990's would be just as interesting for me. If they beat the US in the US in 1999, who knows what happens with the sport.
Interesting bit of trivia: China actually almost qualified for the 1982 World Cup but were defeated by New Zealand in a playoff between the AFC and the OFC
China loves baseball and basketball
Brilliant content, i think the crux of the matter has been very well explained, OCI representation is very important to improve the national team, players like Vikas Dhorasoo, Micheal Chopra and many others could have represented India
Vikas isn't indian he is from Mauritius.
I remember seeing a couple of games from the Indian league about maybe 20 years ago
There were a couple of things missing from games that we have here in Scotland:
1. Grass on the pitch
2. Boots. I remember there were 2 players who were not wearing boots. They had kits, sponsors and so on. I’d always thought it was footballing law
During World War . Indian Player Mohammed Salim Played for Celtic fc
@@mohammedhydertungekar9888 If India could get a bit of sponsorship money into their game, if could be a real game-changer for millions of families
I know a lot of people think they have it bad here, but there are sectiond of India where the Funchal burden on families is crippling. This is where sport can make such a difference.: if the league could get decent money behind it, then have that money filter into clubs, the clubs have that money filter into a youth team, the youth team have that money filter into players…
How many people have been revues from desperate situations, all because they were good at a sport?
Even if the stats were 1 in every 500,000 people are going to be good at football, that’s only a fraction of the Indian population but the lives it could change…
@@GioMarron India is Moving at a Good speed in Football . Even have enough Sponsor . We just need a Good Coach .
@@mohammedhydertungekar9888
India needs money pumped into the game.
There are millions of potential footballers in India and, if sone well, there’s a great opportunity for hundreds of thousands of young men and women to pull their families out of poverty and have, at the very least, a comfortable life.
That’s money pumped back into the Indian economy and would see a growth in all aspects of life.
If the players, the league sbd the national team grow to their potential, there’s an opportunity for money on a par with many of the top European leagues to come in through sponsorships, tv rights, transfer money… there is absolutely huge potential in India, but there’s a lot of barriers in the way just now, not helped by the view of India on the world stage not helped by many governments and corruption.
Huge, huge potential for India to be a big player on the world stage but it needs to start from within India but how many of its few millionaires will put the money they need/deserve into tge game?
If only they’d stop buying themselves solid gold shirts and use their wealth productively
The Philippines is also in this similar situation, the difference is that Philippines never got to the point where FIFA banned them, many people prefer to invest to basketball instead of football, superstars such as Messi, Ronaldo and Pele are barely known. The Philippines only received a little awakening when they qualified to women's world cup. I think due to FIFA rankings, Younghusband has to leave Chelsea same goes to Schrock has to leave Frankfurt.
The Younghusbands went to the Philippines because some Filipino player found their names from Football Manager and since the PFF was active in searching for Filipino players playing abroad, they were brought into the Philippines. They began playing in 2006 then fully moved there in 2009 to be with their mother (who died in 2012). Schrock was also in PFF's radar ever since 2009 until he joined in 2011.
Also the Women's national team qualifying for the Women's World Cup just created a bit of buzz, but not that much as it pales in comparison to the Azkals' performance in 2010 AFF cup. The Miracle in Hanoi and the semifinals in Indonesia during the 2010 AFF Cup are the ones that made most of the Filipinos open their eyes in the world of football.
Tbh I found the Philippines national team underperformed frequently even though they have many European based players in their squad like Etheridge, Schröck and more recently, Holtmann.
@@NoLuckJKMY807lack of preparations and management issues. They don't train together to prepare and familiarize, and most of the time they just meet at the stadium at match day. Also they change coaches every 2 months so they constantly shift through various systems and styles of play. Also recently, many players they recruited are not interested in committing for the national team and instead they just receive 1-2 caps so they'll be eligible for ASEAN quota in Thai league and Malaysia Super League. (Not gonna name them) Also Philippines' local league is in shambles after the big clubs like Loyola, Global, Davao, JPV and Ceres left and what remains in the league are the mediocre ones.
So yes, it's actually a total mess there
India on the right track now, qualified for the 2023 Asian cup it is a big achievement for us , our target is Asian cup round of 16
Please look up Dr T. Ao who played a major role in India's advance to the Olympics and why no other teams have come up since.
Trust me, even if the entire NT was filled with diaspora players like Yan Dhanda and Danny Batth, they'd get full support. Indians love backing diaspora in any field lmao
Yan Dhanda literally begged to be played but he was tod they can't get him a passport. We have this stupid law which benefits no one. (Okay it does benefit someone maybe)
So that's why all the part-indian players in my Football Manager saves never get called up?
India Lacks Grassroot Developement! OCI Card is a Stop-Gap Solution.. But hope under the new AIFF management things will change for good...🤞🤞🤞
Damn, wish I could have been there. Had to listen to the game on Mixr, as here in the US, that's the only way I can listen to broadcasts of Weymouth's games. Weymouth just beat Taunton Town today, 3-1. As a Weymouth fan, GREAT GAME!!! Now, Weymouth needs to WIN their game against Dover on Saturday (4/29/23) in order to avoid relegation. Up the Terras!!
Great video! Would you be interested in doing an UEFA youth league video since the final was yesterday?
Loving the All Blacks jersey
I remenber Chettri from his Sporting time. He mostly played in the B team and even there he wasnt great.
Football is really underrated in India
Cricket is much more popular than football which I think is the reason
Cricket will always be No.1 here , Football will eventually get popular but it'll be like how is it in the US
@261i7nope it wont
I think the major reason for Football not being played on a large scale on a grassroots level, is that, legacy of Cricket has done too much in comparison to other sports.
Football can only rise in India, if children play football whenever they think of playing a game, and interest, investment will go hand in hand onwards.
they put all their resources into cricket.
Scotland does the opposite of India. The only players who get selected are ones born in England.
Zealand the reason India does not allow foreign nationals is because our Govt thinks it will reduce oppurtunities to Indians and the reason our constitution does not allow dual citizenship is in case there is a conflict of Intrest betwwen the two nations the person should not support the other nation
Nope it's security concerns fr.
@@mtk3755Yeah that is what i meant by conflict of intrest
@@isaacmuthu4377 okay I got ur comment
I have family in Indonesia. Footbal is 1 of the biggest sports there aswell. The biggest problem there I think is that the biggest sport talents get recruted into the army once they turn 18 years old (poor families). + rich people pay to have their children play in the big leagues and the national team. If the coach dissagrees he is fired.
There is lots of Half Indian half english in england aswell kind of like half english half irish and half english half african so if they change that overseas rules they would be allowed to play for India. Just like lots of players who cant get into the England team they can play for like Nigeria, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, USA and India could do the same.
Bro it's not something that can
Just be done for football and I bet they won't do it for cricket either for the bill to be passed such a small reason is not gonna cut it
India U17 (3) - (3) Real Madrid U17
India U17(2) - (1)Atletico Madrid U17
GG . Let's goo India !
@@destboi1023 proof that India is getting better
@@destboi1023 lmao
Zealand is going to Taunton and they're playing against my home town, if I had known I would have arranged to go 😭
Chhetri's work permit didn't get rejected (only) because India's world ranking is outside top 70. There's a point table for getting a governing body endorsement for a visa from the FA and a player's track record in club football is even more important especially coming from a weaker football country outside Europe. Playing only in India doesn't obviously score high enough. But playing for a certain country is a part of the issue: rule of thumb is it's easy to get the endorsement if you're a national team player from a top 50 football country or a European player and quite hard if you're not. Anyway it's rather dumb and arbitrary to have such criteria, making a player contract to the best league in the world should be endorsing enough.
Thank you for helping me get through my college class :)
Funnily enough, I was discussing with a Dutch colleague about Dutch cricketing woes, despite the fact that the Netherlands has one of the oldest cricketing federations, it is a complete non entity in the sport. And for pretty much the same reasons.
Congrats to you guys! You are finally in ODI WC!
When you say a national team can be comprised of other nationals or who have born in other countries it's okay when you are a small country but not like a country like India where we take pride in the national team yes of course we won't give such importance other sports like cricket but we are slowly picking it up
Playing for the country is not just for the titles it's more than that it's about pride
It's because whenever we get a corner we open another corner shop 😢
Bro roasted 1.408 billion people
I am from India, and according to me the rise in passion for football is increasing at a very rapid rate especially among teens, all thanks to the world cup. Almost in every single ground in my vicinity, i can see kids playing football during the evenings. The popularity of European club football is surging in India. All it takes, is a little push in the form of proper infrastructure and support and football will easily oust cricket as the main sport in India, especially when today's teens become young adults. We just gotta wait some more years..
They had the biggest diaspora of fans in Qatar 2022 because Qatar imported all Indian migrant workers to attend the games
No they didn't...They were already working there....They were also getting more cost effective tickets as they were living there, just as it happens at every world cup...
@@TCGTales right, so the Indian nations were imported there by Qatar to work and then attended games...
@@Mark-ib2st Yes, it is called legal migration. It happens everywhere. These people were living there and attended games. Just as it happens in any country.
@@TCGTales no one mentioned the legality of anything. I said Qatar imported migrant workers and you said they didn't, then said they had migrant workers 🤦🏻♂️
@@TCGTales To be fair I don't think anyone would be surprised if Qatar did that
Cricket has that place in India which Football has in Europe
Companies Invest and Promote Cricket but not many companies reach out to football federation of India for support
Just Lack of Infrastructute and Interest in people
Goa was Portuguese for a long time so maybe that's why.
Dude, thank you SO much for this video, it's been a huge question I've had for yeeeeeeeeeeears. Appreciate you
Wonderful video.
As a born and raised Canadian with Indian roots I have always wanted to see India succeed in soccer/football. However, their lack of success has been confounding, given the country's huge passion for the sport.
How gigantic is this conundrum?
It is absurd to think that India has a local derby that has a century long tradition (between the club teams of Mohun Bagan and East Bengal) held in the city of Kolkata that manages to fill a 120,000 seat stadium annually (which by the way was 2nd largest soccer/football stadium in the world for many years), yet the country fails to produce a world class team in the sport.
Another interesting fact:
India and China hold about 37% of the world's population yet neither country has been typically represented in the FIFA WC.
Fun conspiracy theory:
In the long run (over the next 20 years let's say), with the FIFA WC expanding to 48 teams, there will be a much higher chance that one of these teams, if not both, sneak into the WC. Wouldn't FIFA just love that?
china played in 2023 WC. but didn't go to knock outs.
@@kiranpandiyan159 2002*
8 Allotted Qualifying slots for Asia This time Looks like FIFA has lot more Interest In India and China Qualifying for The WC Rather than China And India does. If we failed to qualify this time next time They wlil make it 64 teams tournament lol fifa wants all the money they can get from India and China from Broadcast rights and crowd attendance
Next time 96 team's
@@ASH9366 Haha maybe if India doesn't qualify
Great Video, i had a fun video idea that could branch off of this. why england can't win a world cup. Think its an interesting story from the founders involving psychology pressure etc
India has invested in the sport same as China. Not as much perhaps, but they've increased spending and has gotten foreign investment
Long time subscriber from India. Great video as always. Loved the Indian fusion music BGM
they are getting a little bit better though recently espesscially since the vision 2047 project by AIFF
Hey Zealand can you make a video on Bangladesh football?? It's a country which shares a border with India
🌱 indian youth Full of talent like Brazil, need right path , support in career
Indian football is blooming from the past few months hope we'll do well very soon massive respect to one and only sunil chhetri and many more
Oh god I can hear the Indians coming
Thump!
U put india on the title and we arrive mate like aladdin rubbing the lamp to call the gennie😂
Though i been watching z from some time.
Zealand. You should do an FM save with Aberdeen. You could call the series Make Aberdeen Great Again. They even already make hats for the stream.
India during it's Golden period was crowned as the brazil of ASIA
And india is the inventor of 4-2-4 formation and used this even before brazil started using it and popularised it.....
Wait really ?
How much I know is the Indian coach was inspired by the formation of the Brazilians
To develop football in India the highest authority in India PM should support football. The present PM does not know much about football. So former Odisha CM Mr.Naveen Patnaick or present CM of Kerala Mr.Pinarayi Vijayan should become the PM of India.
@@indiafirst3676football already have billions of investment
Please make one about Thailand 🇹🇭
never have I clicked on a Zeeland's video so fast when seeing the Vietnamese flag in the thumbnail
I wonder if Zealand would make a video about how bad Sri Lanka is in football? (They are currently ranked fifth from bottom worldwide and last in Asia)
Gotta love these history videos, thanks Z
India's future for football is bright 🙂
How ?
@@ayushmankar4100 start watching Indian Football.. you will understand...
The point that some people have been using against OCI participation in the Indian national team is that once we become dependant on OCI we will become just dependant on OCI players and the development in grassroots wont happen. In fact its the contrary, once India starts doing well in major tournaments due to overseas players, the sport will get more popular in the country and in turn more kids will start playing the sport and thus the landscape of football will improve in the country.
Morocco is the prime example of how having overseas players have helped them in short term and them doing great in the World Cup will in turn help them big time in the long term.
And after OCI participation we can improve our ranks which would also mean native kids from our country get work permits to play in better leagues
Why Argentina don't play cricket 🏏
Because they rule by Spanish , cricket playing nations are mostly commonwealth nation
@@gauravnagmoti5679 first putting football on India put cricket on Argentina
becuz argentina dont want to play a sport which is not popular all over the world like football?
@@yougallimboo5694 what all over the world really china and India with total population of 3 billion population are not interested in football 🤣🤣🤣
@@jaihind9394 china is interested in football lol they are investing billions of money in their football infrastructure only south asia plays a stupid game called krikit 🤡.
I read that article in The Athletic. Fantastic read.
all those giving excuses here of not having proper infrastructure and support should shut their mouths cos we cant even compete with Syria and Iraq both countries suffered or still suffering from war does these countries have better infrastructure and support i don't think so these are same people blaming cricket for football's downfall in India in order to get the support you need to prove yourself you need to win which don't happen often or happens very rarely maybe if we are playing against Nepal or Bhutan in 10yrs time they also would start beating us.
when i watch Indian team playing i find them Being slow not one player would be able to clear international fitness test they can even be beaten by a club level women football team that's how bad they are i am an Indian and it really hurt when i see my country get defeated in every tournament that they play
I am literally shocked that u covered that topic so perfectly❤... But after all of this now the AIFF doing some fabulous job and I hope it will develop the game in our country
Always appreciate the level of detail in these videos! For the near future I can't see football overtaking cricket in any meaningful way and that's not necessarily a bad thing
wtf ?
football is father of all sports
@@priyanshu95. I mean no, but what does that have to do with my comment?
@@priyanshu95. does that make any sense in the context of the original comment?
@@amreshlaldas236yeah we see those "rural" fans during RCB, MI, KKR matches 😂😂😂. Every celebrity in India attends cricket matches from Bollywood to billionaires .Indian football is shit and even thousand fans don't make up system.
@@amreshlaldas236 There are very few nations who are Good at multiple multiplayer FIELD sports. India is one of them, we are good in cricket and hockey.
Why play football when there is cricket in India?
The quality of a game is judged based on its flexibility. We humans are born with different talents.
Cricket encourages wider range of talents than football. Football only encourages limited talents. Football's talents basically had to do with the quickness of the feet and kicking the ball.
In cricket, one can be a batsman (either left handed or right handed). As for bowlers in cricket, there are different types of bowling. One can be fast bowlers (either left handed or right handed), spin bowlers (either left handed or right handed), etc. Some people are excellent fielders while there are others who are excellent wicket keepers. So cricket encourages wider range of talents.
In cricket, one can also place a runner if one has difficulty in running while batting. I remember a kid who couldn't play football since he had difficulty in running. But he was an excellent batsman and he had a runner running for him.
Thanks for recommending it.
Other opinions and hobies exsist, i hope you realize that. Not everyone likes cricket and not everyone likes football, majority is football since like 3 billlion people watch it but still not everyone likes it
@@ziadkhaled4312 Whether ones like a game (whether it be cricket or football) or not is a matter of personal preference.
That is not how the quality of a game is judged. The quality of a game is judged based on the flexibility of talents it offers.
In that regard, cricket is far superior to football since cricket gives wider range of room for different talents.
@@josephpendleton4927 Stil only your opinion, not every thing enjoys that variety, not everyone agrees with you, not everyone likes it
@@ziadkhaled4312 You still don't understand. Like I pointed out before, the topic of liking or disliking is a matter of personal preferences.
The same thing goes for enjoyment and agreement. Whether anyone agrees with me or not is a matter of personal preference as well.
What matters is validity. Not personal preferences.
What I said are absolutely true since they are perfectly logical.
We humans are born with different talents.
The game's quality is judged based on the wide range of talents it offers.
In that regard, cricket is far better than football.
Why cricket sucks in Europe?
Because Nobody Gives a Crap About a Crap Sport
because cricket.....trrrrrrrrt..🦗💤...trrrrrrrrt..🦗💤..trrrrrrrt ..🦗💤
@@Hssj19 apply that same logic with the title of this video
@@UwUeboi and why england is better in both cricket and football
@@UwUeboiHaving so much population, of course people would expect from Indian Sports
We will play in fifa one day but with Indian born player we don't need anyone from outside.
6:30 just a correction, the 2023 AFC Asian Cup is happening in January 2024.
The Morocco story is also true of Australia. The Socceroos 2022 World Cup story is a beautiful story of what Australia actually looks like.
Fun fact, before India refused to join FIFA in favour of the Olympics, India used to be one of the best countries in the world at football. Many Indian teams were winning against English officer teams in India, and the whole national team got to visit the monarch due to their win against France.
hahahahaha.
Not win. They lost 2-1 by the last minute France goal, I guess
Whole South asia region watching and playing cricket. Football dying here because of cricket dominate. Football ground turn into cricket ground 😂