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The present
condition of soccer in Nepal can be considered to be optimistic.
If this momentum and direction could be carried on, Nepali soccer
can make a distinct presence in the South Asian region and possibly
in the whole Asian region in another 5 to 10 years. The performance
of the national team itself is not really high quality, however
it can be said that it is headed toward the right direction. For
the country like Nepal and with its dire economy there are very
few chances for the national team to participate in lot of the international
tournaments, so every chance they get are very precious and are
of great importance.
In this narration,
I am trying to elucidate that the solid economy is needed for the
infrastructure, however not for the future of the sport. That is
because after couple of good results, economy itself finds its path
to the sport.
There are a
lot of things that we don't have in our country, well does that
makes a difference? The most important thing is that we don't have
is a mutual respect for sport professionals, the status of the player
a good player is no more than a national hero in the other nation,
but at the same time to be sportsman in Nepal is not appreciated
at all. Simplest example of which is parents rather wishing their
kids to be doctor or an engineer or get into some other salaried
profession. Well, there is no question that they love their children
immensely however on the other hand isn't it better for their children
to get into some sport and become a professional than drop out of
the same class for 3 consecutive years.
In Nepal, sports
have very tough existence and that is all due to the fact that lack
of relations between the society and the professional players. Once
we start to put the image of the players of the national team in
the national hero list, we are going to make a huge step ahead.
Well, we can see there are a lot of social workers and there are
lot of people who work for the nation without caring what they get
and what they have, but the thing that they get is respect and love
from the society which is lot of importance for anyone who have
the purpose of nation behind them, that is what our sportsman do
and they have the right of being national hero. Once they start
getting that the people are going to give a huge importance for
the sports and people around that.
Particularly
talking about the soccer in the country like Nepal the game has
very big popularity and that is always growing, no matter there
is love for cricket growing as well. The phenomena of the popularity
of the cricket are quite obvious with the commercial around the
Indian national team. But why can't we see another close friend
of Nepal, Chinese making big stride in the sport and that is the
country we have to learn from. The way they played world cup, that
is a huge progress and that is what we have to have in mind.
There is another
factor that have huge impact in the Nepal football that is of the
attitude of the professionals themselves, they are in Love with
the habit of pulling leg of own colleagues and that have been a
very big example in the recent feud between Ganesh Thapa and Geeta
Rana .
There are big
looses made by the players and nation, than any of the creator of
the new association made. recently the feud was over and they had
compromise and that is good news for the Nepal football and that
is good step .
The league games
are also starting soon and a popular tournament with "Khukuri
Cup" is already underway in different districts and that is
positive news for the soccer lovers of Nepal. There is also couple
of matches for the national team in Asian cup and what could be
a greater opportunity for our players to demonstrate their abilities.
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