Football and Cricket - Is There Room For Both In India?

By Saheli RC and Kaushik Lakshman. Kaushik is a regular contributor to Real Offisde and can be found on Twitter @_kaushik7.

While Indians are still celebrating India’s first cricket world cup win in twenty-eight years, I woke up a few days ago to find news more akin to my liking: Real Madrid Foundation opened their first academy in Asia; where else but the home of Indian football, and coincidentally my hometown, Calcutta! Football is the second most popular sport in a nation with one billion crazy cricket nuts. Expectedly, though, like most other sports in the country, football has been forced to take a backseat.

(Source: philosofooty)