Watch out Brazil! Here we come!!!

Well, I am a soccer fanatic and I love Italian Serie A. Not going to mention the team though, but I love following the Milanese and the Turin teams.

Well, for crying out loud. Did any of you watch PTV today. They were broadcasting the second friendly of the Indo-Pak tourney, from Islamabad. It was the Final match and Pakistan drew 1-1 last time. This time round they won 3-0. Damn, homie...! Awesome. Check out http://www.footballpakistan.com/ to find out the truth.

Pakistanis love sports. Its just that Pakistan got better players in some era of its history that it won the ICC Cricket World Cup, thanks to some dedicated souls. And then Junoon and Vitalsigns coming up with `national anthems` to support the endeavours in the next WC. We lost and are still losing.

Football has just not been realized as much as it should be. In my opinion, this game is most cost effective game in the world. So a third world country like Pakistan should be the first one to adopt it.

At the point of privately owned Leagues and government funding, the mere size of the undertaking is so immence that there needs to eb government intervention and initiative inorder to help a sport grow. Ministries of Sports are held responsible here. Pakistan is given at least 70 Lakhs in total by FIFA and Asian Federation to promote football, but I guess two goal posts and some chuna for marking the lines is just too expensive for that sort of money.

Promote Pakistani Soccer!

The state of football is the same as that in India- poor infrastructure,inefficient bureaucrats who are only interested in furthering their power.
The solution lies in allowing corporate funding, better marketing through electronic media
Better organization at the Juniour level and finally making football as a financially viable career option for players even at the domestic level.