All about Football played in India.
                     All about Football played in India
Introduction
• Football is one of India's most well known games, and is said to rank second just 
behind cricket in notoriety, albeit some announcing believes local football to be 
more mainstream than household cricket. 
Fact 1
• Kolkata (earlier Calcutta), in the territory of West Bengal, is viewed as the home of 
Indian football. The city contains the two most well known Indian groups East 
Bengal Club and Mohun Bagan AC. Derbies between these two clubs regularly 
draw swarms around the 120,000 imprint. 
Fact 2
• The game in India is regulated by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) situated in 
Dwarka close to Delhi, which is associated to the territorial Asian Football 
Confederation, just as to the overall body FIFA. 
Fact 3
• The Indian national group has gone 
into the local Asian Cup rivalry just as 
the World Cup. 
• The Indian ladies' national group has 
likewise played in different rivalries. 
Youth football is regulated by the 
legislative Sports Authority of India. 
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Fact 4
• The standard of Indian football (thought about all around) is 
poor – the national group is positioned past 100th spot on the 
planet, and is said to battle to fit the bill for both the World 
Cup and the Asian Cup. 
• Some portion of this has been put down to the absence of 
chances for legitimate preparing and improvement of players 
in the nation. 
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Fact 5
• Football in India was spread during the times of the British Empire. Numerous 
football clubs in India were made during this time, and pre-date huge numbers of 
the associations and clubs, for example, FIFA, which are dominating in the game 
today. 
Fact 6
• At first games were played between armed force 
groups, anyway clubs were before long set up around 
the nation.  
• The Mohun Bagan Athletic Club got renowned in 1911 
when it turned into the principal Indian group to lift 
the IFA Shield, a competition recently won distinctly 
by British groups situated in India. 
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Fact 7
• The national football crew was likewise very effective until the 1970s, fitting the bill 
for Olympic competitions and the FIFA World Cup. The group equipped for the 
1950 World Cup finals in Brazil, however couldn't show up as they despite 
everything played in their uncovered feet around then. 
Fact 8
• The Indian group likewise won the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games gold 
awards in football. 
• In 1956 the group completed fourth at the Melbourne Olympics. 
Fact 9
• India was honored with extraordinary players 
like Dhyan Chand, Roop Singh, who helped 
India voyage to six back to back gold 
decorations in the Olympics. In the later piece 
of the century, cricket was been well known. 
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Fact 10
• After the milestone Mohun Bagan triumph, the quantity of 
clubs and competitions spread, prompting the arrangement 
of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) in Shimla in 1937. 
• The AIFF picked up FIFA participation in 1948 and was one of 
the establishing individuals from the Asian Football 
Confederation (AFC) in 1954.
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