Also, I fail to understand why any capitalist, even in his most bizzare mindset, would not increase the stadium capacity when there are potential viewers who would increase his profitability?
U failed to understand who is making money in cricket!It's the local authority(BCCI),the body of hardcore businessmen,politicians,the advertiser companies,the tv channels,a handful of national cricketers....where is the second line first class players(who are huge in numbers)....in this picture and where is the am-admi?
The money is going to the capitalists,came from them too......poors are remaining same.....the subject matter of this thread.
However, considering that India's population is 1.1 billion and one in ten, in the least, follow cricket, that still gives you 110 million people who watch the sport in India alone, which is about 5% of the world's population!
That's a shame for us! 1.1 bilion people and we are so strong that not a single olympic gold medal ever(except the pre-historic Dhyanchand and afterwards era)? Look at our position in the world stage of sports!
If 1.1 billion people's 9 tenth are not interested in this bogus game,that's good....they are more interested in earning a salary more than 80 rupees a day.It is the failure of India's sports policy that we are so dull in sports and hence wasting our time in a colonial product which is underrated in their origin country itself.US,Japan both have their own preference on sports.....but they are very very successful on the other sports and the winners of the kudos of world-stage.
And there is a term called class.If all of India shouts cricket(which is definitely not the case),then also it doesn't mean anything.The same problem is also with our Indian Cinema.Hindi and South films have large audience.But put one Shivaji,one Dilwale dulhania le jayenge (my favourite though),which has a record time staying in a single theatre hall,to any prestigious world film festival to win the prize,forget oscar,I will take ur point of quantity.But till then it's quality over quantity,class over cheapness,Titanic over Kaho na payar hai....
They are as crazy about football as some Indians are about cricket, no other difference.
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Cricket requires much much less athletic skill than football,hard work is a primary policy there,exactly the place where India is lacking.With professional sports management and athletic guidance,India will become a gigantic force in sporting industry,where football has to be the top.Our huge failure in sporting field can't be hidden by the media by bringing this David Boon-Mike Gatting-Ashok Malhotra's game.We are failure in every athletic and body strength game.And you say the fantasy of cricket in India and hard working Brazil's revolution and Rebellion against the world same? They don't shy their face away from being sportingly athletic like my country. Don't forget Brazil has 5 Gold medals in last Olympics.
And you talk about poor people benefiting from international football?
U still have doubts?
A game which needs a ground and which is to be worked on specially to build a part where it will be played,i.e. pitch,22 bats(pretty expensive willows),Two balls(more actually),22 helmets,God knows how many guards(arm guard,chest guard,abdominal guard,thigh guard or pad,guard on that part
....continued?),24 pairs of gloves and 24 pairs of pads(one extra pair of pads and gloves each for the wicket keepers as the glove and pad for wicket keeping is different from the ones to bat!!!),is meant for the well-to-do families' children,not for the poors.
But a game which requires a sizeable ground,2 pairs of gloves and a ball,is definitely meant for the poors.It is evident that the most footballers in the best clubs in our country including Kolkta trios:East Bengal,MohunBagan and Mohammedan sporting,come from poor and lower middle class families.Not only here,the one u mentioned,Brazil,being a poor country,being the victim of the big guys,have pronounced an unseen war so far against this world ...not to be supressed by poverty.Football requiring so much little accessories,easily attract the not-so-well hard working children.They dream on this sport.They made this game a survival and celebrating event...Their essence is not their poverty.No.Their essence is their entertainment value.They told the world - look we are so poor,but we will make this world look at our feet for the most popular sports in the universe....we will sell us.Buy me at my price,I will give u entertainment of what u want,at ur terms....I will dribble to the extent of beauty of the work of gods in the heavens.....They conquired the world.A third class player in Brazil's third class club will earn handsomely in a country like India,where football ranking is three figure in the world(we are ranked at 143 by December news)!But even a first grade player like Tendulkar from India will have to search for a people who knows his name in Brazil,forget of paying him.Not only Brazil,the poorer coutries,like the ones in the Africa,(Nigeria,Kenya et all),can dream of making an income more than an MBA,by just being on the list of the worldcuppers,even if he wasn't selected for the final eleven.Remember Chima Okeri? He wasn't even a worldcupper! I want my country to rise on the shoulders of the poor Indians,for whom Roti-Kapra-Makan matters,who can arrange atleast a tin pouch to play and dream,like Diego did.....like Pele did.Like Zedan did.
And the term of Swamiji(not originally) fit for the people mad for the game of cricket is 'kupamanduka'.And now the great knowledgeable(!!!) member will comment on Vivekananda,like his irrelevant and false comment on George Barnard Shaw???
"You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through a study of the Gita"
- Swami Vivekanada.
P.K.Banerji once told beautifully how Swamiji was ecstatic of the game because of it's nature of the concentration of the players of one single target - goal.The Monk was a visionary to India's rise....
Let me brief:A festival brings money for the poors and the Nation.A huge public gathering,like the kumbh mela,like huge spiritual Satsangs of our beloved Saints help in having an income for the people who are am-admi,even for them who are not-so-spiritual.A game which is global in nature and played in 90 minutes generally and can be played in more numbers in less time will attract global audience,thus enriching the hotel industry,the transport industry,the food industry.....Because of it's high entertainment value,it will be an income generator than any of the entertainment industry,including the Bollywood and Tollywood.
