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What is more surprising is the lack of professional British Indian footballers in the U.K. period. I think it must be a culture thing, as the English cricket team and county teams don’t have the same issue. IMHO football just isn’t a sport that British Indian kids play very much, or are encouraged to play by their families either
Surely a better question is 'why can't Indians play football?'😂
Because there is no such thing? You mean Indians living in Britain.
As long as your parents were born in the territory of India you’re eligible to play for India as per FIFA rules. You don’t need a passport or citizenship to be eligible for a county. 🤷♂️
Why cant India win a World Cup?<br>Because everytime the get a corner they open a shop.
Name one decent British Indian player lol 😂
India might make the wc before Italy bro
why can't British Indians play football
Ah yes, the Famous Indian granny eligibility.
I mean... Are there any British-Indians playing in the professional leagues in England?<br><br>Feels like it's always just White-British or Black-British.<br><br>I'm quite interested in why this is but it also feels like a bit of a minefield subject.
Because Indians dont play football?
Quick question who would even wanna do that?
Looool. Imagine giving up a passport of a functioning country to sway it for an Indian one
Also what do you aspect good good players will come back to India ? 😂 What a joke bro they left the country for getting better life why they would play for India when Indians don't support Indian football
They would have a pretty decent team.
Becuse they cooking chicken curry
As an immigrant and also a big football fan I’ve thought about this very topic for a time now, why would you not play for the nation you were born? Why train, develop and leave? using it as a stepping stone to go to a country that you don’t never lived in…this makes no sense to me.
Didn't think there was that many british Indians playing football
Fym british indians
India left the World Cup in 1950 because they couldn’t play barefoot 😂
For a moment I thought you were talking about Anglo Indians and I was completely confused. I mean they are Indian Citizens so they are allowed to play for India but British Indians are exact opposite lol.
There is no such thing as a British Indian.
the way south east asia and south america countries that also dont allow dual citizenship don’t have this problem
Because every time they get a corner they open up a shop
To make a constitutional change for the accommodation of the diaspora before making systemic changes to give a fair platform to the talent from home is absurd. So much more needs to happen for us to get better at football
Genuinely takes them from a joke of a football nation to alright. Probably beating most other Asian nations apart from Japan.
Forget foreign players playing for India even true Indians aren't able to play football internationally.... We got out of the Asian games to play a friendly with brazil......
Mel Benning does
It won't be that easy for the Indian Govt. to implement the Dual Citizenship for athletes. The mf Congress and other opposition parties will oppose everything just for the sake of opposing. But the good thing is the Government really wants it to happen.
Realistically, they will never become strong at football, not due to lack of talent, but because of the socioeconomic and cultural factors surrounding it. It is a poor man's sport. Most, if not all, of the greats have come from impoverished backgrounds, where football is one of the few accessible activities that children in that bracket can spend a huge amount of their free time playing.<br><br>Many Indian immigrant families may fall within lower-income brackets, but the culture is VASTLY different. Those parents who have immigrated in pursuit of a better life almost chain their children to academics where their children's free time is forced into educational or career-oriented extracurricular activities rather than the likes of football. Chinese immigrant families are the same.<br><br>Children from these communities just simply dont have the time necessary to develop into elite footballers really. Just look at the fact that neither India nor China, despite having the world's largest populations, a lot of which are in poverty, have never had a football team that could compete. It is not an activity that is not 'allowed' by the parents. They dominate other areas, sure, but not football.
Diaspora is already celebrated by Indians it would be easy to cheer them on as a national team.
Countries like UAE have almost all their international sports teams with foreigners with no UAE passports. So passport should not be a problem. It’s a matter of if India wants to do it. But it might be the BCCI influencing against this decision.
All our talent outside of india bruh let us play
India won't do it because partition was favor of India. So indians population will be doubled
They definitely need them India football sucks
Icl right... name 1 British-Indian player 💀
I honestly think getting more diaspora players playing for us would be a shallow, surface level victory, allowing India to increase the quality of players, without meaningful changes in the sports development systems or infrastructure in the country. I would rather wait for 10-15 more years to have india be competitive on the global stage through grassroots football development, such as the case of our youth teams such as minerwa academy, who are absolutely setting the youth football scene on fire.
As an Indian living in NZ I would love for this to happen. I was so happy to see hamza choudhary play for Bangladesh. Even players like Mbeumo playing for Cameroon is a beautiful thing they are giving back to their country. Like everything the constitution of India complicated and there are many many reasons why law is this way but it was made a long time ago. There has to be a updation of rules so India can get better talents and more exposure. Sadly people like Michael chopra who played for Sunderland tried their best but couldn't play for India.
That will never happen. If that's the case then the British 🇬🇧 Indian cricketers would also play for India 🇮🇳 .
Cuz they don’t want to ???
Hey tifo, can you guys make a video about the role of true number 9 in future football? We already seen some wingers shining in those roles (Dembele, Raphinha)
There are hardly any british indian professional footballers anyway
<b>When the Athletic learns the word diaspora</b>
Look at Indonesia😂
Half the African nations are good at football because they do this. Somehow India never got the idea. Well even if they do it might just be for nothing considering how corrupt and incompetent aiff is
This is why India will never play in the world cup.
genuinely tho why would anyone give up a us or Australian or british passport for india?
Because India's pro's all play Clash of Clans
We should not have dual citizenship for islamic countrys
That's crazy
No such thing as a 'British Indian'
they don’t allow duel citizenship? well that’s good, i didn’t want to fight for my passport
They’re not exactly great athletes
Why can't British Indias play football in the first place?
If the Pakistanis do it first India will do it, they won’t want to be left behind
Funny why no one calls that racist but when or if the west do it they are labeled as racists. <br>Abolish the dual citizenship, its a country not a hotel.
Football will never get anything in india
It's not just British Indians.. It's every Indian origin born outside of the country
No dual citizenship is a great idea
Im always surprised how insular India is as a country despite benefitting from that diaspora.
Speaking as a British Indian myself, The real reason is that South Asians are not good at football. If each PL had at least one South Asian, this would have been overturned by now.
lol, lmao even
I cannot for the life of me think of a single quality player in the top 5 leagues of Indian ethnicity. So this is kind of a moot point anyway
I mean they’d probably make an exception if the player is exceptional<br><br>Like how China let Eileen gu play for them, she’s a gold medalist <br><br>I’ve never heard of any Indian origin soccer players ever
They are busy scamming people and no time for football.
AIFF must be one of most corrupt football federations around, I know this because I have seen how football is treated here
Because every time they win a corner they open a shop
Indians have hobbies 🏏 , they don't like sport games 😀
I think they need to get a decent football team first 😂
Check out this indian football player named bigil. He is primer league level
Look at the most European team in Africa Marocco. It the eu had a football team it would be called Marocco...
no such thing as a british indian
Which player in their right mind would give up a superior passport and want to degrade their quality of life to play for india which is non existent on the football map . Ryan williams made a big mistake
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Why can’t any play in the EPL 🤔
beacuse india doesn't consider diaspora as indians, indian is a nationity at the end not a ethnicity,
But can they play tho if they were allowed? Indians or S. Asians in general are physically not that strong.
As a foreigner who has lived in India before, I observed something: In India, the overall philosophy is that every solution to a problem has always got to be more complicated than the problem itself. Now India is discussing introducing a 'Sports Passport' for such athletes, a whole new category of citizenship, instead of, I don't know, allowing for dual citizenship. As such, diaspora players playing for India will be a rare occurrence at best.
Imagine Vikash Dohrasoo in Indian Colours or Micheal Chopra!
Someone has to step up. Some inspiration. So the future generations can have a familiar face to look up to. But the system will not allow it.
how though
This is an encouraging sign. Hope the proposal goes through
Indonesia is doing good by recruiting Indonesian - Dutch players to play for Indonesia
Imagine having billion people still need to import players oversees. As a Bengali it's break my heart how Delhi exploited and ruined our historic pride beloved football 😢
Remember the time india sold out a stadium full of fans wanting to see messi and then a politician came in and whisked away messi after 5 minutes. Thats one problem india has
My opinion is, either we develop our own crew even if it takes decades or sink with our own ship. But never any foreign based player.
Missed calling up rodrygo man sadge. What a player
Can we exchange some of their cricketers?
And how many Indians actually get any opportunities to play professional football in Britain?? Practically none
It's quite bizzare that India has never attempted to abolish the Dual Citizenship Ban over the last 79 years of existence as an Independent Nation.
Unpopular opinion: This is not a good idea for domestic Indian football. It may make the Indian national team win a few more games, but it won't improve the local academies and the entire local ecosystem. After all, the credit should go to UK for developing British Indian talent. <br><br>Instead of this shortcut to success, India (as well as all countries) should take the long and hard path of developing talent from childhood till they become professional athletes.
I don't see a bright future here for local talent. Ever.
The graph is a little misleading as the world cup was expanded in the last iteration. It also included a bunch of micronations and middle eastern countries with lax naturalization laws.
If that was allowed, we will se Rodrygo playing for them
India has a term "NRI" (non resident Indian) for those who are of Indian background but not resident nor citizen nor (like me) no ties except ancestry. I also don't like the term "British Indians" unless you from India in the first place and then having become British citizens/residents (possibly dual); the correct term for anyone born and/or raised here is Indo Britons. The noun is Briton
Because they'll set up a stand at every corner
B.S why Indian in England be come players?
Yeah, the English football league is full of world class indian heritage players, just look at....... erm
Because whenever they get to a corner flag, they try to build a shop.
Who tf wants to even play for India? Nobody that can actually play football 😂
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