NEW DELHI: A reluctance to wear football boots at the 1950 World Cup is blamed for casting India into the soccer wilderness, but decades later the giant country is making real efforts to get back in the game.
Buoyed by a rising economic tide, football will return to India in a big way with the Under-17 World Cup in two years’ time, an event which officials hope is just the start.
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