5 things that could have happened if: Lionel Messi played for India

#5 Rapid improvement

What if Lionel Messi was in this frame as well?

For any country to be good at a sport, it needs to have the necessary popularity among the masses. Despite the fact that cricket has been the most viewed sport in Bangladesh for a long time now, it has taken so many years for the nation to build up a world class team and yet they are quite far away from becoming the finished product.

The reason why we don’t see countries like Argentina and Spain in the cricket World Cup is because these two aforementioned nations hardly care for the sport which, in turn, results in the younger kids completely shunning its existence, let alone aspiring to be an exponent of it.

Football has only just begun to gain popularity in the region. However, if Messi was an Indian player, the growth of the game in the nation would have been as rapid as wildfire. This would result in more and more children aspiring to be like their idol, which would, in the long run, produce a lot of talented players.

And finally, these talented players would have forged a team good enough to qualify for the World Cup. But, by then, however, Messi would have been long retired.