Wow....
We had always believed that we can beat them .....
Now this is an even story for all Indians in every categories of sports. We had never crossed the mark. We don't have any discipline in sports for which we can say, we are the best. Not in cricket too. When we start to believe that we are good in this sport, the sudden loss, may be the law of average, we again start believing that no we were up against some mighty opponents and that is the reason we lost again. Come on, how many years more we spend with this capacity full of resource/ people like this.
Yesterday was the day, when every other thing came down to blush and it was all India show again. It felt good being a soccer fan. It always felt good being an Indian.
Today I am not discussing the soccer, but let myself write something for my country. We always talk of showering goodies on to people who has won the tournament, but we always forget the sport which has made them rich, our country proud. We get satisfied with the performance of one of our gems and forget that the money could be spent on the sport. We believe in our heroes out in Colosseum but forget the trainer or the training ground. We want to spend on the total flower with nice and wonderful colours, but we forget about their budding ground.
No, I am not taking any bit away from our heroes, They have made us proud. What happened eventually has made us believe, no they are not aliens. They are great because what they have done has at least started the in flow of money.
They had made someone in our country believe that the sport they are from need some light. Money cannot buy us everything but it can buy the best infrastructure. Money cannot give us pleasure but at least it can give us the place where we can rest. Money cannot buy a life, but at least it can provide the safest and strongest nursery for the same.
Let me share with you an event which made me feel like anything. I am not disclosing whom i am talking about. Presently i am not at my hometown, I am on national roaming nowadays. I always remembered that the AFC Cup final is scheduled the same day. After my work when i checked the score in Internet from the mobile device, I found India was leading by 3-0. Believe me, I couldn’t believe the score. When I felt it was the real I was happy and started praying India don’t lose. I reached my resting place and saw someone seeing Olympics. Hockey was being played between Holland and some other country. I said him we need to see the football coverage, the finals, India is leading, he was least moved and was not interested.
If this be the condition of any sport in our country how can we move up. What we need is money spent for good cause of infrastructure. This will give us a good nursery for the buds and the bloomed stuff. Then we need the talents. They don’t come like that. We need strong comprehensive talent search programs. Then we need good trainers. Inprofessionall ground, there is no difference betweenIndiann & foreign trainers. What must be the parameter must be the quality of their training. The next thing must be the exposure to the arena they need to enter. These words are very hypothetical, and the top bench must know what to do. He last but not the least thing must be the modern awareness programs. Intoday'ss world we call the same as sports marketing.
The only reason for me writing this article is to see our heroes again, again and again lifting the pride of our country. We want to make ourselves believe, yes we can do it, not once because there was weaker competitors, but because we are the best. We don’t need super-heroes to help us, but we need people who may call themselves heroes in their discipline.
When I see the Olympics medal tally, I think when will we be like them. When I see the Football world cup, I start to think when will we play like them. When I see anyone lifting pride of their own country, I feel good for their devotion, and start expecting maybe me or any of my country men/ woman will have the chance of sharing the same joy. I live in future, and dream of future.
“And God said, Let there be light; and there was light…..”
Jai Hind…..!!
