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Football in India

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Submitted by WG on Thu, 03/02/2011 - 08:46

India is an emerging power in the world economy, althought still with great contrasts between wealth and poverty.   Cricket is a far more popular mass sport than football, a game in which India has punched well below its weight.   China, for example, has made greater progress.


This piece by a MA in Economics student in India asks why football missed the bus in his country and cricket was so successful.