Official Indian(South Asian Champs) Football Thread [R]

you maybe interested in this guy. his name is wijay and although he plays for sriwijaya and has featured in the indonesian national team he is of Indian descent

Wijay

 

Nehru Cup start today :


India - Lebanon 0-1 FT

 

india finds tough to beat sapnish 3rd division teams then wat u expect them to play with other teamss...and the coach blaming the grass ...lolaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

What are you talking about???

You cannot get Nedved or Ronaldo to play on the INDIAN national team!

 

He means I-League.

 

What??!? There are many other leagues Ronaldo (Brazil) would play before he goes to a country that doesn't really care about soccer because they are in love with cricket.

Most notably MLS. Admittedly America is not in love with soccer but MLS draws a lot more fans and revenue than the I-League does.

 

Mohun Bagan often draws 120,000 fans for a match, name one MLS club with those numbers.

 

I don't know anything about I-League but I know some people from India and they have no idea where soccer is even played. All they know is cricket.

If Ronaldo or someone like that played in MLS it would be higher profile and they would be in more of an international spotlight playing in America than India.

 

Soccer is equal to cricket in the more eastern parts of India. The country went wild when Maradona came over.

 

Isn't Maradona 250 lbs. now or something? LOL!

 

Kolkata is soccer crazy. In the two other big cities, Mumbai and Delhi, people don't give a **** about soccer.

 

Today

India - Kyrgyzstan 2-1

 

There are other big cities in India besides those. They don't care about soccer in Bangalore or Chennai (Madras) either as far as I know. It's all cricket, cricket, cricket there. Chirp chirp chirp!! LOL!

 

India looking for the title hattrick

The Indian national football team will face Syria in the final of the ONGC Nehru Cup 2009 today.

India will be looking forward to clinch their title hattrick at international level after winning the ONGC Nehru Cup 2007 and the AFC Challenge Cup 2008.

Delhi's Dr. Ambedkar Stadium will be the venue for this prestigious showdown.

Be part of this historic moment and support OUR Indian national team!

CATCH ALL THE ACTION LIVE AT www.IndianFootball.Com!

Kick-off: 18.30 IST // 15.00 CET // 14.00 GMT

ONE NATION, ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM - CHAK DE INDIA @ www.IndianFootball.Com!

 

Hardly a hattrick since they lost SAFF Cup last year
Anyways good luck!

 

India score , 1-0 ! Extra time

 

Syria score in 120th minute , few seconds before FT ! 1-1

 

Congratulations to India !

1-1 AET . India win 5-4 on PK`s

 

Congratulations to our boys and Bob Houghton. Under him, I think this team can take their game a level higher and have a decent performance in next year's Asian Championships which we are going to host.

Syria hasn't conceded a single goal in the entire tournament and we did a good job against them.

Due to work commitments I could only catch the game from the second period of extra time. Luckily for me both the goals were scored in that window.
Did anyone see the entire game? How did the team fare?

 

In your opinion how many Indians have watched this final in TV ?

 

I really have no idea. But I guess the number would not be very high. There is a magazine called Ad-vent India, which gives end of the month TRPs for each event/TV show in India. They also give estimated viewership. Once I get my hand on next months edition of Ad-vent, I may be able to furnish a number.