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Indian Football is a gold mine waiting to be explored, says Arsene Wenger (www.the-aiff.com)

submitted 11 months ago by APrimitiveMartian@alien.top to c/main@soccer.forum

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[–] BrickEnvironmental37@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Football is very popular there but they don't tend to support their own. Even during the World Cup last year, there and Bangladesh were rocking up to big screens wearing jerseys of other nations. Indians were going to Qatar to support England. It's very weird.

India generally have a very poor sporting record. They have 10 Olympic gold medals in their history. It was only really in the last 20-25 years that they sorted themselves out in cricket.

If football ever got big, the BCCI (Indian cricket board) would wield their power and try to crush it.

[–] vivekanandasr@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

India is a big country mate, personally I think there are enough people to support both the sports if it becomes big.