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Neglected Indian football.






The picture above is of the Indian football team playing the 1948 London Olympics.
 - Azad India's football team did not have enough money to buy shoes.
 - Some players wore socks and others played barefoot.
 - This was the time when Prime Minister Nehru's family went to Paris to dry clothes.

 - India equalized France 1–1 in the first match.  India lost by a goal in the last minute.
 - Standing Ovation was given by the audience to the Indian players for a great game.
 After this, the team qualified for FIFA World Cup Football in Brazil in 1950.
 - But the team was refused to send at the last minute.
 - The country was told that FIFA has banned playing barefoot football.
 - The organizers were told that India is a poor country, we do not have the money to come there.
 - FIFA said that they want a talented team like India to come to the World Cup.
 - He announced the cost of travel and stay of all Indian players.
 - But Nehru's government did not send the team.  (The association was then under government)
 - The morale of the team preparing for the World Cup is badly broken.
 Since then, India has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup.
 - Even then, the football team players were not given shoes.
 At that time, Captain Shailendranath Manna of the Indian team was one of the top-10 captains of the world.
 A few years later, he told the story of this hoax with the Indian football team.
 Today, 3 out of 7 main football stadiums in India are named after Chachaji Nehru.
 - A stadium is named after Chachaji's daughter Indira Gandhi.
 When the FIFA Under-17 World Cup was held in India, foreign players understood that Jawaharlal Nehru will probably be India's greatest footballer.
 Today, after 70 years no one knows the real greatest footballer of the country, Shailendranath Manna.  Sad.


Hindi translation:

ऊपर की तस्वीर 1948 लंदन ओलंपिक खेलने वाली भारतीय फुटबॉल टीम की है।
 - आजाद भारत की फुटबॉल टीम के पास इतने पैसे नहीं थे कि वह जूते खरीद सके।
 - कुछ खिलाड़ियों ने मोजे पहने और अन्य ने नंगे पैर खेला।
 - यह वह समय था जब प्रधानमंत्री नेहरू का परिवार कपड़े सुखाने के लिए पेरिस गया था।

 - भारत ने पहले मैच में फ्रांस को 1-1 से बराबर किया। आखिरी मिनट में भारत एक गोल से हार गया।
 - भारतीय खिलाड़ियों को शानदार खेल के लिए स्टैंडिंग ओवेशन दर्शकों द्वारा दिया गया।
 इसके बाद, टीम ने 1950 में ब्राजील में फीफा विश्व कप फुटबॉल के लिए क्वालीफाई किया।
 - लेकिन टीम को अंतिम समय पर भेजने से मना कर दिया गया।
 - देश को बताया गया कि फीफा ने नंगे पैर फुटबॉल खेलने पर प्रतिबंध लगा दिया है।
 - आयोजकों से कहा गया कि भारत एक गरीब देश है, हमारे पास वहां आने के लिए पैसे नहीं हैं।
 - फीफा ने कहा कि वे चाहते हैं कि भारत जैसी प्रतिभाशाली टीम विश्व कप में आए।
 - उन्होंने सभी भारतीय खिलाड़ियों की यात्रा और रहने की लागत की घोषणा की।
 - लेकिन नेहरू की सरकार ने टीम नहीं भेजी। (संघ तब सरकार के अधीन था)
 - वर्ल्ड कप की तैयारी कर रही टीम का मनोबल बुरी तरह टूटा है।
 तब से, भारत ने कभी फीफा विश्व कप के लिए क्वालीफाई नहीं किया।
 - तब भी, फुटबॉल टीम के खिलाड़ियों को जूते नहीं दिए गए थे।
 उस समय, भारतीय टीम के कप्तान शैलेंद्रनाथ मन्ना दुनिया के शीर्ष -10 कप्तानों में से एक थे।
 कुछ साल बाद, उन्होंने भारतीय फुटबॉल टीम के साथ इस धोखा की कहानी बताई।
 आज, भारत के 7 मुख्य फुटबॉल स्टेडियमों में से 3 चाचाजी नेहरू के नाम पर हैं।
 - चाचाजी की बेटी इंदिरा गांधी के नाम पर एक स्टेडियम है।
 जब फीफा अंडर -17 विश्व कप भारत में आयोजित किया गया था, तो विदेशी खिलाड़ियों ने समझा कि जवाहरलाल नेहरू शायद भारत के सबसे महान फुटबॉलर होंगे।
 आज 70 साल बाद देश के असली महान फुटबॉलर शैलेंद्रनाथ मन्ना को कोई नहीं जानता। उदास।

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