Our reporter Chris Harrington hates to in the uk to chat with sundays jeanguy starring defend up for the Indian National team. And sebastian samba takes us on a footballing toy at all times he met up with a National Team coach paid a visit to a local football magazine and makes the time when for the fantasy of. A good long while that little. Two nations in football adolescence with plenty of excitement to spam now on kick off. A force for good with all of the big thing in the. Us are always the question is office and how we going to be does theres a cricket. Ball that ended the local ball and a lawful but it was never any lies it was no look shown to be the. India one point three billion people in county its motto truth alone stripes appears from the Indian NationalFootball Team has struggled to qualify for the world cup only once nine hundred fifty but back then the barefoot plain team withdrew from the tournaments the reason is unclear maybe the flight super zille cost too much or was it because feet been barefoot play after india played well in the forty eight olympics either way major football tournaments in india have little to no history out of three asian cups only their first in one nine hundred sixty four when well when they finished runners up the other two times they failed to win a single match. And im Chris Harrington in the southwestern coastal state of carola why the mind carola. Because its a football stronghold in the country. And the phrase were both. Its my first trip here ever and its hot see thats why. I want to find out whats been holding indias National Football team back from success but first a taste of culture parallel is famous for having the most sought after spices. Market are commonplace all over india and theyre always crowded just like this one is from here in kerala to find out what this market in particular has to offer throw come on this ride with me. When it comes to football kids vendors sell all of the usual suspects you have a premier league jerseys if youre looking for the Indian NationalFootball Team oh no. Youre out of luck they only have carolus kick. Well as. It stands now cricket earns its india top billing when it comes to the Playing Field many across the country are devoted to the sport and treat it like its really. Been successful. In football get more followers and become successful as well. Im heading to the home of the carola blasters who are they a protein formed in twenty fourteen as part of the Indian Super League on my to do list talk to two indian footballers one from the past in one in his prime to get their takes on white indias team has it made bigger strides on the International Stage and having recently broken into peoples top one hundred ranking what can we expect from indias National Team in the coming years. Means i am visayan the first footballer to win indias player of the year multiple times a Living Legend who shared the stage with another great Diego Maradona the carolinian scored forty goals for his country and the face you literally see all over carola center backs and days chewing gum for the blasters. The defender has twenty seven caps for indias National Football team. And get nice to have you here. Now the home tell you you are the only know. From this region so. Why the hell arent you playing cricket ill tell you honestly outside as a cricket so i can force in india cricket is its massive but i always got more into football goes off to cricket used to play football raining then i do enjoy it so i did take it cricket initially but something you know whats in this innings bound to happen so im lucky i like to be out there with a book goes from europe it is so boring we want to see. How did you Start Playing football. Stand at the middle of the set at the. End of. Them looked at the medical board. For both of the other areas to live. For this event both of the boys will discover when they messed up they were. So why did the National Football team had more success. And did a little dip in the game in their phones that i love and so on and so you open certainly im going to go but it will. Do you feel being you were part of. The beginning of something that will turn out to be something bigger than yourself go off and speak in the nasa team b. And you. Say to them the. Lucky ones you know the people who remember us off the lake was reno in sight you know that now the ball is going to get bigger and bigger every day in india so it would be part of it when it all started and it feels good so something i can tell the granton about ive been known sighted i was a part of it. When i was sixteen sixteen my dream more was to play for the National Team first then all those kids dream to play for manchester. Or whatever madrid and everything but for me i was very passionate and im still the most passionate about the National Team and im ready to talk the guy and i get pretty pissed when people make jokes on my going to do something about some of that kind of a guy so me was nothing moves over the National Team and i would die to sleep enough of. These days. For another Indian National. President. And c. E. O. Of most i did. This necessary if necessary however im not somebody. I never said the. Unity of the squad and the national being as is is second to none its unbelievable and i believe this is our biggest strength you know when you go out. And you hear like what about a brother who rend you go a bit if you do feel like we all brothers are playing and. Thats why when people come watch as they do you know when you play if you all speak the language of football together and you all die for each other on the field then its pretty lucky to be part of the squad. Even blame the sport for poaching future footballers. Blame cricket. When i was a. Much. Different sides of it we should be but. When the intro im very very proud of the population of this country. And we can only be good at cricket thats the. Big as a nation and the only. Publishing we have should be good. To. See play. Is believing. That young. Must think seeing him play on t. V. And that the young so thats where the television. If you dont make them look good no ones going to buy it. Believe in your lifetime you see india. Compete in a world cup. Its. And then they. Number one number two number three and then i. Woke up about it is. Not a good. Dont but that they would be among the. Ocean but they dont get the name any of. The number good. They said the money they were. Getting into i moved to the beach to talk to people like you is it a big deal recently sure if its one hundred crossed one hundred this is a very. Proceeding what you have achieved and the past few years with the National Team to get into the one hundred top one hundred for me im not a big fan of the pregnancy going to some final fling big tournaments and big games. So we had that unbeaten run of fourteen games and i was pretty big you know to do that in divisive stage and then the forty francs for the nation its nice to. When you finally take off your boots hang them up and retire from this game the worlds most popular sport with do you want your legacy to be. My legacy. I started to see myself this was when i was nineteen eighteen something of what whats going to be ging on my knees is done in football i want to be remembered even after hundred years and i want to achieve so much as a footballer. With the National Team and the club. Remember my name and im dead gone i would think finished and on to achieve. Thats the aim by the force that i want to give back to the sport as well the one we should focus is the grass so i want to contribute and. Hopefully you open academies so that people will say oh he came from the doing of the got me. To carry me gets here. Young upcoming footballers look for any pitch they can find the perfect their football skills. On my trip ive come to learn football fever is slowly spreading across the country but there are still lots of work to be done for football to reach its full potential however success at a major tournaments and the young generation in love with the sport there will be born to talk about them cricket in the future. And does the future hold for the right. Just the right people. So these days are the last frontier of the football world no team from the region has ever come close to call the fine for the world cup in the last fifteen years but for a decade now things have been changing and they have been changing faster than you think especially here in time. To create the type of going up going out every year. And some of thailands best players. Pam and in europe is a lot of progression in the last ten years. And thats kind of. The future of football in Southeast Asia the shape here in thailand. And how far can the National Team the war elephants go in the asia cup two thousand. I am here in thailand to find out more now i have been a football fan since i was six but much of what i saw here in thailand blew my mind and what better time to take a look then before d. H. From cup a fan of one of the oldest clubs in the country. Passionate committed and a vivid example of why thailand is not only about this. Did you expect thailand to have an independent football magazine around you works for it and has plenty of stories. And remember him lets call him the specialist after he almost had gone out to the semifinals of the world cup but then came luis suarez with his hands. Helms team thailand. In bangkok and there are many means of transportation. Was but these are the most fun they took jokes. And often their drivers wear football jerseys mostly from premier league teams. Are you less there are. A lot of mean that you need to quantify but whatever all that give me about how that was on t. V. So. I am not got caught the myth that my watch how. I got to my house all. You hear this one often on the streets of bangkok as thai billionaire we do next he didnt was the man behind leicester success. So are thais mostly interested in english football no investment in football is no longer just a business for rich thais abroad this is. One of the oldest clubs in the country with passionate fans who sometimes took up fights. To decide division the club seemed finished but then things took a surprising turn. Please me. This businesswoman invested in new players and started dialogue with the fans but ampang brought professionalism money and success. For decades the changes at his club stand is just one example of how the thai league has probably become the region strongest one. Well you can with that. Get even me the you can make. Your. Get. One of the players madame pang brought in a former seventeen european champion with spain with him as captain finished third last season in thailand for five years hes quite some changes over time. I think is growing a lot i mean from the beginning when i arrived i didnt feel like. Going a lot. A lot. Of football is on its way its no longer Just Premier League or league here i asked my driver about his favorite player and while i expect him to talk about this one or this one in fact i get another one. But i havent. Seen is a star in thailand and plays in japan for a concert. Type football this means quite a lot i learned bangkoks football magazine hat trick before i can feel that. I me afraid to go out now we have. A. Tough fight when i come back to play for. Me. Before. Thailand are not even among the worlds top hundred but with players in japan and one also in belgium is this now a new era. They have on the bench he led gone out to the quarterfinals up to two thousand and ten world cup. There is a titan game on tonight and i need to get the right outfit. Here. Over here. You have to. You know theyre going to. Know when i type this jersey feels like the appropriate attire but then i realize ive never watched a single game of the thailand National Team in my life. Actually the game against for these things starts in thirty minutes and im going to watch it as. Its an important away game for thailand at the a f fs cup for the championship of Southeast Asia. Hello everyone im going to get. Noisy and his friends are confident their team are the defending champions that fight these days just like. The second team off tie. So we need to send our best play good. Cop even without their best players on the pitch tight and dominate the coming yeah i come in. I got yo yo yo lets say was a bad cold. No goals at halftime but excellent food. In the philippines are. A little bit stronger and ill say that dont hate me for that at. All well what a great expert thailand take delete all good. I or not so guys this is the thailand bad. Bad bad. But as in every good game tragedy comes next. The philippines correlate slapstick equaliser with actually a tie replacement goalkeeper does the number one as in belgium. Develop yeah right. I mean you know you know next up to singapore in a few days. Great social and positive atmosphere despite the last minute heartbreak equalizers got to love that spirit im not the only foreigner who enjoys watching football in thailand. One of the many expats in the country paul murphy from scotland even blogs about football. Games here is a very different atmosphere. But i like the way this very socially they gather for a couple of hours before a game to a certain picnic have a few drinks i really like that side of it and its never called. Me. I wonder when thailand will produce its First International superstar maybe its just a matter of time. If you call maybe not the best at football you know in international we are a test. But i can see it growing up maybe one day we can be one off the top off a ship. Just one more day before the decisive mencia game singapore time to meet the specialist. Took over as thailands coach in twenty seven. Half. Mad. About the. Week he put. On defending. First. Good. Old. People getting. Up in court they called him a. Is upon us. And its time to mingle. With these guys. But also with the thai fans of course. And spiderman is bad. Im. Like you. And being a true gentleman he shows me how to drink it properly in a stadium where alcohol is apparently family. And. Close. Thailand quickly score and people in my block go while. The war at three know the atmosphere in the stadium somehow reminds me of a carnival. That. Carnival. That night the semifinal game against malaysia will be a big obstacle for thai that. But. Then a week later they miss a last minute penalty and lose on the way goals so after this disappointment what can tie into cheve in the asian cup. Qualifier we. Last to wales teams we should be at least. Last eighteen i think with the players from japan back in the side. I can definitely see them going through the group. So bear in mind that two or three teams will qualify. My feeling is a big enough to be. Very tough to beat the. Big game will be against bahrain i think to be honest i think its. A. Group is not. So do i have a conclusion yet but im right on the plane because i have to go today im going to. China football is coming in small steps but it is coming and you better watch out for it. Energy surrounding the sport is positive joyful and passionate and its not just about the buy there is also serious investment i wish them well and ill go there with my new jersey maybe i can even make use of a past the group stage never stop leaving comments below koku team rock show. Pan stars deliver rousing performances. Out of house with the colorful frontwoman. The. British band texas. Good. Job. Making news alice made it just lets see a balance of. 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