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.
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