Barefoot to Boots: The Many Lives Of Indian Football
By Novy Kapadia.
Description
Few football-crazy fans today may be aware that India was once called the Brazil of Asia . Or that the rivalry between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan is ranked among the top fifty club rivalries in the world. Brilliant players, world-class coaches and passionate fans including political leaders once combined to make India a footballworshipping nation. Thriving in several places apart from Calcutta, football was a source of the finest sports entertainment for most of the twentieth century. The game was also inextricably linked to community identity, shrewdly used towards political ends and cont...
ISBN(s)
0143426419, 9780143426417
