Four reasons why you need to support Indian Football

#4. Setting a grand football narrative

Sunil Chhetri

Ever noticed the number of people who continue speaking about the Indian team’s football qualification in the 1950 Brazil World Cup? It may have become a bedtime story for the newest generation on the block, but the simple fact is that a new grand narrative is beginning to form.

Children who ply their trade in the football academies all over the country want to become like Sunil Chhetri, or Sandesh Jhingan, or perhaps even a Gurpreet Singh Sandhu. It would seem as though the football fever has indeed caught on.