00:00the goat tour has ended and the goat has gone back to argentina but where is indian football
00:09what's the state of sunil chetri and the other footballers in india if you have these questions
00:16this video is for you and let's dive in right away ciao ciao my name is ajay manan i'm a content
00:24creator and i've also worked in indian football so my takes on indian football come from experience
00:29and a certain certain level of authority now we all celebrated leo messi and lewis suarez and
00:37rodrigo dipol coming into india conducting the goat tour in calcutta in mumbai hyderabad and in new
00:45delhi but before this goat tour actually the argentinian national team was penciled in to come
00:51into india and player friendly now ideally it should have been against the national team or a club from
00:58india but apparently the organizers were going to fly out the australian team and argentina
01:05were supposed to play australia on indian soil in a ground which is so well known across the world
01:13which houses one of the best fans in the country the kerala blasters the indian national men's team
01:19haven't played a game there but argentina could have played a game but it did not go through for
01:25whatever reason that we're not getting into it in this video but parallelly the goat tour was always
01:31going to happen it's been on for months people have paid from 7 000 to 10 000 officially and you know
01:38unofficially i really don't want to speculate the amount i mean it goes on to several lakhs if you want
01:44to actually get a you know photo with messi and his signature and you know uh the works basically so
01:50this was hyped up right my uh take and the kind of issues i want to address is with regards to the
01:59commentary of messi coming in and suddenly you have all these keyboard warriors and journalists
02:04and fans waking up from the slumbers and we'll get into each each and every argument one by one
02:10okay now firstly okay i'm gonna i'm i'm with the fact here all right a lot of people who said that
02:17oh why are indian fans you know uh getting so hyped about you know messi he is messi he is leo messi he
02:26is one of the greatest footballers of our generation still currently active still going to play the world
02:32cup with argentina he's like i mean this video can go on for three hours if i start to describe about
02:38how great or how awesome leo messi is he is one of the legendary players of all times so if he's
02:45coming to india you definitely would be hyped up now a lot of us can't go or you know couldn't go in
02:52the past to see messi play at the camp now or you know at bfg or now even in the us so this is the
02:59easier option i mean instead of paying many lakhs of rupees for a few thousand rupees you can at least
03:03you know catch a glimpse now ideally ideally he should have been playing football but hey you know
03:09you you know as fans what can you do i mean this is all the organizers right i mean he's just coming
03:14for a photo we knew it we knew what the event was going to be about so why is there this narrative now
03:21after the event has you know taken place right and uh you know with regards to celebrating him man we
03:27are a country where we celebrate so many people like be it politicians or film stars or uh pop icons
03:35or whoever you know we we love that uh you know celebrity worship culture and all of us including
03:41me i mean all of us have indulged in that in some form or the other and why not for the greatest
03:45footballers of all time man it's leo messi obviously there will be that fanfare there will be that uh you
03:51know worship culture everything is there man because he has rightfully earned his his stripes
03:57so called to say so that's my first argument i'm with the fans fans would pay whatever amount just
04:02to catch a glimpse even if it's you know a photo op event even if it's just messy walking in casual
04:09clothes and just you know having a kick about here or there if i am a messy fan i would you know want
04:14to be there especially when it's happening in your own backyard now point number two you know the this
04:21is it's it's so annoying there are people making reels on this if you can pay 10 000 for messy why can't
04:29you pay 100 to be so or so little chetari it makes no sense you know indian football fans have supported
04:38the national team and isl and i league for the last decade or so and having worked in indian football
04:46having traveled to several parts of the country having made content especially in kerala
04:52i don't think so any football fan has never supported chetan they have always come out especially when he
04:58dons the blue or orange in this case for india i think the support has always been there okay
05:04the whole mumbai thing where he made a video i was there for the first game obviously the fans
05:11weren't there because mumbai is not the cultural hotspot for a football game and the national team
05:17was returning to mumbai after a gap of many years right so that got in the hype but recently india
05:24played in goa right i mean i know our results have not been great but goa which is known as the hot
05:30spots and hot bets for indian football the fans did not turn up for that but they did turn up for
05:35fc goa versus al nasar my point is fans have always backed chetari you guys the guys who made these
05:43videos you guys have never ever come out in support you've never actually gone to a stadium or caught an
05:49isl game or a season for that matter the fans who were there for chetari's games are also there for
05:55the messi events and you saw it in mumbai it's not vankhede it is the folks from the mumbai football
06:01arena who chanted chetri chetri chetri when he comes out as a bangalore fc player obviously he gets
06:06that hate and batter but when he's representing the national team he's a legend he's you know our
06:12greatest footballer of this generation uh by a country mile and he gets all the love and support
06:18everywhere so you keyboard warriors who really haven't followed indian football the lack of support
06:24towards chetri or his teammates or any other indian footballer is not the issue here i think it's a
06:29guilty self-conscious that has really come to haunt you all right number three um number three was
06:34the sponsorship issues and so many brands pumping in money to you know fund the messi strip and the
06:41whole activity uh why are they pumping in the same money for indian football well indian football
06:46is in dire straits right now uh to sum it up shortly fsdl who are a reliance company who had the rights
06:54for the isl uh and who've been running the league for the last decade or so along with the all india
06:59football federation they are caught up in an internal turmoil and to be very honest which brand
07:05will willingly invest money when there is no future no clarity on a future um little or no roi
07:13whatsoever i don't want to get into the technical aspects of uh all of this but the main losers here
07:19are us fans because it is why at the time of recording we are in the middle of december and
07:26we still don't have any clarity on our top division on our second division or any other football league
07:31including the iwl which is pencil to start in a few days there is no clarity um as the great angry
07:38rat man would have said it in terms of the offices of the organizers there is no passion there is no
07:44commitment there is no dedication there is no vision and i know that vision 2047 is looking at me
07:51and laughing like you know i mean the fans have been taken for a ride the most important stakeholders
07:58of a football system us we the fans we've been taken for a ride and there are people now because
08:06because the whole messy thing is trending and indian football is there along with it and everyone's
08:11you know weighing it and seeing it in the same lens please invest that energy right uh the folks
08:17who i just mentioned the guys who run the football leagues in our country they're all on social media
08:22please go on their handles and start commenting same indian football because that's what indian football
08:28needs it needs to be saved from itself and that was the video if you have any comments please
08:35leave them below i would definitely want to engage uh you know with i mean with the thoughts that
08:42matter because indian football is not really going to be built by one person there is not going to be
08:49one messiah who comes and saves indian football we have to do it collectively so please share your
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