Indian Football: Passion for Watching, Low on Playing! | Premier League
Indian Football ek ajeeb contradiction hai. Fans ko game pasand hai, global level pe but local level pe nahi. Humare club matches mein stadiums bhar jaate hai, lekin international level pe hum struggle karte hai. Kyun hai aisa? Nazar Ya! ki Nagariya ke iss episode mein hum explore karenge Indian football ki history, highlights, failures, aur future ke baare mein!
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00:00India's two major football clubs are battling it out in the semi-finals.
00:08On the other hand, England's defending champions are playing a dead-rubber match.
00:13This is being watched by 4.5 lakh people on Hotstar.
00:16Whereas, our match has only 17,000 people.
00:19Indian football is a strange contradiction.
00:22Fans like the game, but not at the local level, but at the global level.
00:26Specially, the English Premier League.
00:27According to a survey, 38% of Manchester United fans are Indian.
00:33The TV reach of the Premier League games has doubled in India's mega cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Hyderabad.
00:42And the watch time has also increased by 2.6 times.
00:45On the other hand, the world's third-highest goal scorer Sunil Chetri has to plead to watch our matches.
00:57I'm going to speak, appeal and request all of you who did not come.
01:02Why is the world's most populated country not able to perform in the world's most popular sport?
01:14Hi guys, welcome to Nazariya ki Nagariya.
01:17Brazilians of Asia, our well-known football team's ranking is below the Civil War-toned Syria.
01:24Why is our condition like this?
01:25And why did India not participate in the FIFA World Cup in 1950?
01:30Let's find out.
01:32The British introduced football to India.
01:35And because Calcutta was their capital at that time, it became a football hub.
01:40Nagendra Prasad, the father of Indian football, also spread football all over Calcutta and opened new clubs.
01:48He even forced his friends to play football.
01:52In 1888, Mortimer Durand started the Durand Cup for these teams.
01:57Which is still going on and is also the world's third-oldest.
02:01And there is a club in India that is even older than Liverpool.
02:05Mohan Bagan.
02:07This was the first Indian club to win the IFA Shield.
02:10Which was watched by 80,000 people at that time.
02:13Due to the absence of a national team, the fans became loyal to the local team.
02:17This continued even after the formation of AIFF.
02:19After Independence, our Barefoot national team had a tough competition with France.
02:25And maybe that's why India was invited to participate in the FIFA World Cup, which was also known as the Jules Rimet Trophy.
02:35Think about it.
02:37There was an opportunity to participate in the FIFA World Cup and we rejected it.
02:41But state clubs and Brazilian federations were also ready to support.
02:45Still, we did not send our team.
02:47That dream has remained a dream till today.
02:50The mastermind of this golden period was Saeed Abdul Rahim.
02:54Under his guidance, India won the gold medal in two Asian Games.
02:58And made the journey to the semifinals of the Olympics.
03:01He also designed Brazil's famous 4-2-4 system.
03:06Unfortunately, due to lung cancer, we lost Mr. Rahim.
03:10And with him, the momentum of Indian football also lost.
03:13In the 1960s, the Indian football team won more than half the matches.
03:18After that, it was a big deal to participate in the Asian Games.
03:22For many reasons of this failure, AIFF did not take scientific and practical steps for years.
03:28We kept playing barefoot until we lost 10-1 to Yugoslavia.
03:33Our domestic competition was of 50 minutes, while people outside played 90-minute matches.
03:39We also changed this in the 1970s.
03:41After Saeed Abdul Rahim, 40 coaches were changed in 40 years in India.
03:46Clubs used to pay salaries to players due to rivalry.
03:50That's why they preferred to play there.
03:53Like in Calcutta, East Bengal of refugees and Mohan Bagan of educated people.
03:58After the war of 1971, this rivalry increased even more.
04:02Due to which clubs started giving more money.
04:05And the national team did not give anything.
04:07That's why players either skipped India's matches or played very safely.
04:12So that there is no injury.
04:14On top of that, we did not send a team in the 7 World Cups of 1954-1982.
04:20After winning the Cricket World Cup, all commercial and broadcast interest went to cricket.
04:26This was also obvious because after 1984, the football team could not qualify for the AFC Asian Cup for 27 years.
04:34That's why today the total revenue of BCCI is 50 times that of AIFF.
04:40AIFF did not even make a national league to find or train players.
04:45And that's why their former general secretary Kushal Das also said that this is the reason for India's failure.
04:52And the national football league that AIFF ran, that also did not work.
04:57After this, I-League, ISL came.
05:00But the players of other countries play for 10-11 months.
05:03Whereas we only play for 6-7 months.
05:06And this structure is not financially sustainable because only one club of ISL is profitable.
05:11Even after the failure of the Asian Cup and FIFA World Cup, the story of football did not end.
05:17With every goal and every match, a new chapter begins.
05:21Let's see how AIFF will achieve its dream of becoming a football power.
05:26And as far as EPL is concerned, its next season starts on 17th August.
05:30Do tell us the name of your favourite clubs in the comments.
05:33And don't forget to like and subscribe.
05:36See you in the next video.