The stakeholders of Indian football should figure out ways to bring out more grassroots competitions in order to strengthen the foundation of the sport in the country, feels Jose Antonio Cachaza, the managing director of the Spanish top league, La Liga, in India.
“As we find with many other sports, India faces some shortcomings in football. One of them is the lack of venues or football pitches and even more critical is the lack of grassroots competitions. For that you need hundreds of thousands of boys and girls playing football, even knowing that 99% of them won’t be graduating to the senior or professional level,” said Mr. Antonio Cachaza during an interaction with the media to announce the completion of five years of La Liga’s local presence in India.
