The truth is that FIFA is desperate to get India to play in the World Cup, has been for a while as we are literally the largest sports market with just a single sport dominating, the last fairly unexplored major market in sport.
They gave us the FIFA U17 World Cup on which I worked for that reason. The women's U 17 as well, they also wanted to give us the U20 tournament if our team continued to do improve, but the AIFF had imploded by then.
FIFA, like every world sporting body other than the ICC, wants to bring our huge audiences to their sport. It is our collective sports administration incompetence coupled with a clunky structure of sports being in the state list instead of the central list that is shooting us in the foot.
And why most major Indian sporting achievements have been individual, despite the system instead of thanks to the system.
This is ridiculous. Part of the guarantees that all FIFA World Cup hosts have to sign is the free movement of all participating teams and officials through the hosting counties. I know this because it was part of the guarantees the Indian government had to sign before hosting the FIFA U17 World Cup in 2017.
This sounds like a last minute compromise where the US could not outright refuse Iran, but still needed to save face and make it as difficult as possible for them.
That is an unfair disadvantage for Iran and should be condemned by all football lovers.
My Dear @AMISHDEVGAN
If you ever organise a protest - only 2 people will turn up.
One would be Mr. Bhadwa & the other would be Mr. Dalal.
No one will tolerate B&Ds now.
"I was trolled endlessly by people online, some even called me anti-national" —This is the trouble when the country, in a deranged trance, shows allegiance to a person and a political party, forgetting that the actual country is beyond and far bigger than that individual and party.
आकांक्षा डॉक्टर बनकर देश और समाज की सेवा करना चाहती थी। आकांक्षा के पिता किसान हैं। बेटी के डॉक्टर बनने के सपने के लिए किसान क्रेडिट कार्ड पर ₹3 लाख का कर्ज़ लिया। और नागपुर में खुद कुक की नौकरी कर ली, ताकि बेटी वहाँ coaching कर सके।
एक पिता ने जो कर सकता था, सब किया।
फिर NEET पेपर लीक हुआ। परीक्षा रद्द हुई। उस अनिश्चितता में आकांक्षा हमें छोड़ कर चली गई।
आकांक्षा की मौत आत्महत्या नहीं - मोदी जी की एक भ्रष्ट, टूटी हुई व्यवस्था की देन है।
और धर्मेंद्र प्रधान जी? आज भी कुर्सी पर हैं।
फिर वही कमेटी। वही ट्रांसफर। वही जाँच। न सुधार, न न्याय।
मोदी जी, कुर्सी स्थायी नहीं होती - आती-जाती रहती है। लेकिन आपने 12 वर्षों में शिक्षा व्यवस्था को जिस हद तक बर्बाद किया है, उसकी कीमत भारत की एक पूरी युवा पीढ़ी चुका रही है।
While India has witnessed scams before - never have we seen an entire generation of youngsters being robbed off their future in such a systematic manner.
OSM fiasco is not an accident or oversight- this is cold blooded murder of young India. If you still think this is about politics and defending a party - then you have blood on your hands as well.
Would you have believed them if someone had told you that a baby faced 15 year old was going to break Chris Gayle's record of the maximum sixes in an IPL season?
And here we are!
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi fan for life!
Heartbreaking photo.
India has ALL of the world’s 50 hottest cities. But do you see any evidence on our streets and public spaces that shows our authorities care? We have millions of street vendors like this woman in the photo, all left to fend for themselves.
From hydration centres to heat shelters, there’s so much governments could do. But why bother when you could stoke religious tensions and get by?
Our gig workers are often the worst affected. They are forced to spend the day on the streets, waiting for orders. Neither food delivery apps, nor @urbancompany_UC bothers with erecting shelters workers can use to escape the heat. And we, as the public, don’t really care.
Cockroaches, indeed.
Be Abhijeet Dipke
-> grew up in Aurangabad, Maharashtra
-> studied journalism and media in Pune
-> became obsessed with internet culture and politics
-> joined AAP’s social media team around 2020
-> helped run meme campaigns during Delhi elections
-> later moved to Boston for Masters in Public Relations
-> May 2026: CJI said Indian youth are “cockroaches”
-> @abhijeet_dipke posted “what if cockroaches unite?”
-> launched Cockroach Janta Party as satire
-> started with just one tweet and a Google Form
-> @CJP_2029 crossed 1 lakh signups within 72 hours
-> Instagram exploded with millions of impressions
-> manifesto mocked unemployment, paper leaks and political hypocrisy
-> believes future elections will be decided through Instagram and YouTube
-> turned internet memes and frustration into a youth movement
🚨🎙️ Thierry Henry on FIFA turning the World Cup Final into a Super Bowl circus:
“Football is losing its soul little by little. A World Cup Final is supposed to be the purest form of football, pressure, intensity, emotion, tactics, suffering, history. Not a halftime concert made for social media clips and celebrities in vip seats.
When you play at the highest level, your body is programmed around rhythm. Fifteen minutes. That’s what every footballer in the world has known since childhood. Your muscles stay warm, your concentration stays locked in, your emotions stay alive. Now imagine players sitting there for 25 minutes during the biggest game of their lives because FIFA wants a bigger TV spectacle.
People think footballers are robots. They are not. Momentum is real. If one team is dominating before halftime, that long break can completely kill the intensity of the game. It changes everything tactically and mentally. You cool down physically, you lose adrenaline, and then people expect players to immediately return playing at 100 miles per hour.
And let’s be honest here, this is not about football, it’s about money and entertainment. They want football to become the Super Bowl. More commercials, more performances, more headlines, more celebrities. But football became the biggest sport in the world without all of that. The game itself was enough.
The dangerous part is that if the final quality drops or players get injured because of these changes, fans will attack the players first. They will say certain stars disappeared in the second half or failed under pressure, without understanding the conditions were completely changed for a television show.
For me, the World Cup Final should feel sacred. Ninety minutes of war between the best players on earth. Not a pause long enough for the world to forget the match is even happening.”
Esse cidadão foi um lateral com mais de 700 jogos na carreira e nunca viu um cartão vermelho ser direcionado a ele.
Um dos jogadores mais inteligentes a tocarem numa bola de futebol.
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