India’s new soccer league is all set for kickoff with Atletico de Kolkata taking on Mumbai City FC in the opening game later on this evening.
Blatter – in one of his rare lucid moments – once called India a ‘sleeping giant’.
India’s Fifa ranking is 158th in the world and so it remains to be seen now if the Indian Super League is going to wake the giant up or if it will merely make the giant roll over a bit and continue dreaming about cricket.