Is ISL really good for Indian football?
Zico Zico, Alessandro Del Piero, Nicolas Anelka, and even Marco Materazzi. Big names, yes, but they aren’t carrying any magical wand that can change Indian football’s fortune overnight. By having these veteran stars in a pajama football league called the Indian Soccer League, if the federation thinks it’s one of the biggest things to happen in the country, then I’m sure they are taking all of us for a bumpy ride. Today, the Indian team had another disastrous outing at the Asian Games in Incheon. We’re used to such humiliation every four years. At the same time, the federation is all geared up to host the pajama-drama and still claims that developing football in India through retired world stars is a kind of revolution. Someone in the officialdom must be kidding. Losing out to a strife-torn Afghanistan in the SAFF Championship, followed by a defeat against Pakistan at home in a friendly last month, are some of the recent performances of our national teams. Why was the team sen...