Manchester United help India search for a new Beckham

From: New Straits Times | Date: November 3, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Jeremy Page
New Straits Times
11-03-2007
Manchester United help India search for a new Beckham
Byline: Jeremy Page
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: EPL

IT is one of the great riddles of world sport: why India has never become a footballing power despite having a vast talent pool and a connection with the game dating to the British Raj.

While Indians have excelled at cricket - introduced at the same time - and won the cricket World Cup in 1983, their football team is ranked 145 in the world, between Surinam and Antigua.
But 118 years after its first football club was founded, India is determined ...

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