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There's pandering and then there's pandering.

Before anyone gets excited he means that literally, FIFA wants to operate gold mines in India.

"How can we monetise a billion people?" - FIFA

FIFA and UEFA would somehow double the amount of fixtures if India starts watching football.

Indian Football is a gold mine waiting to be exploit... explored!

bit of a weird way to phrase it

India really needs to move away from cricket. Waiting for the day when football takes over.

Think the popularity by Son in Korea and multiple the hype by 10

Lol

They mean gold mine for them to exploit basically

Colonisation 2.0

Why don't FIFA invest heavily in India? They might make insane returns once India starts playing World Cup regularly.

curry mine

Indian Football is a gold mine waiting to be exploited, says Arsene Wenger

*Fixed for you

Again, this topic is tiring at this point but nothing will change as long as Indians continue to simply consume the sport and not play it, along with a lack of infrastructure which means poor kids have no way of accessing professional football.

In other news, Arsene Wenger opens shovel and pickaxe shop in India.

1-800-Cash-for-Gold ?

Even before that : it’s a mystery why no english player of indian background has made it to the highest level

Wtf

Football is very popular there but they don't tend to support their own. Even during the World Cup last year, there and Bangladesh were rocking up to big screens wearing jerseys of other nations. Indians were going to Qatar to support England. It's very weird.

India generally have a very poor sporting record. They have 10 Olympic gold medals in their history. It was only really in the last 20-25 years that they sorted themselves out in cricket.

If football ever got big, the BCCI (Indian cricket board) would wield their power and try to crush it.

Sue me but my kid (whenever I have him/her) is gonna train in football at all costs. It's upto them how far they want to go

What kind of colonialist talk is this?

Mi primera chamba

Finally someone significant has realized the power of Pav Bhaji, Momo, Rice+Curry and Aloo Paratha.

Always wondered about this. Out of +1 billion people, they couldn’t find ONE talented football player?

obligatory "he is a specialist in failure"

A country that obsessed with football, with that many players, could easily be a football powerhouse.

I was thinking about this the other day. There's over 1b people there and lots looove football, why do we never see good Indian players? Is the infrastructure that bad?

Don’t tell the British