4 reasons for the downfall of Indian women's football

#1 Patriarch Society

Girls have a tough time in India to get into sports

This reason does not reflect just on the sport of football, but on every walks of life of an Indian Girl. A generic Indian Middle-Class family often does not tend to allow their girls get into sports for a living. The mentality has been hurting Women's Sports in the country and Indian Sports as a whole.

A few years ago, former Olympic bronze medalist Karnam Malleshwari had revealed that women athletes in India are subject to sexual harassment not just by coaches, but also by federation officials. Such news results in an even bigger impact on Indian Parents resulting in severe reluctance to send their daughters to play sports at a professional level.

During Asian Games, 2014, gymnastics coach Manoj Rana and gymnast Chandan Pathak were booked for allegedly sexually harassing a female gymnast at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium. The 29-year-old woman gymnast alleged that the duo made vulgar and indecent remarks about her clothes.

Such horrific instances do have an appalling impact on girls taking up sports thus the best results never come despite the federations leasing huge sums of money.