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In a cricket crazy country like India its very strange and hard to find a football loving state like KERALA which is also known as GODS OWN COUNTRY. Although Kerala is a small state with poor infrastructure and facilities required to groom budding footballers its very surprising to know that a lot of eminent footballers like T Abdul Rahaman, I M Vijayan, Jo Paul Ancheri and the current Indian midfielder N P Pradeep evolve from these states. Besides these eninent players many more are part of the I-League clubs. The game of cricket will also bend their heads in front of the popularity the game of football gets in this state which belong to a cricket crazy country. This was quite evident when Kochi tuskers kerala played their home matches in Kochi, a lot of stands were empty but if it was a football match an empty seat wouldnt have been found such is the love for this beautiful game in kerala.
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All forms of football let it be the 11 a side or 7 a side all are cheered by the crazy football loving fans in ths part of the country. Of all districts in this state , Malapuram is the power house of Kerala football. The game of football is promoted right from class 1 in schools in this state and thats the reason why we can find a lot of junior indian players as well from this state. A popular form of entertainment of the people of the state besides going for movies is to go and watch a live football match in a stadium. District leagues, Kerala school football leagu, G V Raja football tournament and a cup in the name of former chief minister E K Narayanan are some of the popular football tournaments in this state.
Even the big business houses and business groups of this state owns some soccer clubs of the state. There are many footballers from this state who shift their base to other states in order to have a good footballing carrier. A lot of weekend tournaments add to the joy of the football loving people of the state as well. At the moment there is only 1 club in I-League from this state(VIVA KERALA) and a lot of them doing their best to qualify to this league. If India has to qualify to the FIFA world cup in the future a lot more attention has to be paid to the young and budding footballers of our country and especially to the young and talented footballers of this state.
