On 03/07/06, Rui Collaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As expected, the World Cup has found an echo on Goanet. Also as expected, > some weird comments (to say the least), have begun to appear, after > England's defeat (no coincidence at all).
Rui, do you believe that *everyone else* is weird when it comes to making comments? My aim was to make some comments which were as weird as your's. And I think I succeeded. > Why is India, with more than a billion people, almost a non-entity in > football? Why is India so backward in sports in general, as seen by the > miserable results at the Olympic Games? This question was posed by the > "Times of India", in a dedicated forum, right after the last Olympics. It > questioned, reflecting the country's frustration, whether Indians were > physically weak. I would rather blame wrong policies and underinvestment in > sport. It is troubling, in any case, that one sixth of mankind should be so > inept at most major modern sports. Perhaps too much attention being given to > cricket, which will never be a mass-sport. This is a theme well worth > debating. Of course, India is currently a poor country, with little pretensions on the sportsfield. We're just bad at it. So, there's probably no need to use the sports field as another arena for war, or for proving nationalistic and neo-colonial points! FN PS: Radio here is calling it an "all-European" semifinal affair. Sad but true. Diversity would have helped. PPS: I don't subscribe to the pseudo-patriotism over criticket either. Headlines here say "West Indies conquered after 35 years" or "Best Indies", after yesterday's cricket match. Crap! We have more important goals to conquer -- poverty, illiteracy, inefficiency among them. These are not all. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Frederick 'FN' Noronha | Yahoomessenger: fredericknoronha http://fn.goa-india.org | +91(832)2409490 Cell 9822122436 ---------------------------------------------------------- 2248 copylefted photos from Goa: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/ _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
