India vs Brazil: Is the spectacle worth the cost?
In Focus by The Hindu

India vs Brazil: Is the spectacle worth the cost?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 29, 202622 min

Joy Bhattacharjya discusses the scale and cost of organising the fixture, India’s decision to prioritise Brazil over the ASEAN Cup and the wider debate over the AIFF’s priorities Brazil are coming to India for a high-profile friendly in Kolkata, but what does the game really mean for Indian football? The high costs involved and India's decision to pull out of the inaugural ASEAN Cup to accommodate this fixture have sparked a debate on the merits of hosting star teams while India’s domestic football structure continues to face challenges. Does a marquee game against Brazil justify the invest...

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putting a really shiny big event out there saying wow Brazil is going to come in, Uruguay is going to come and look at all these players and look at all the money that's coming into Indian football and look at all this. The point of it is that is it really really changing the way Indian football is played? This is In Focus, the Hindu's current affairs podcast.

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India and Brazil will play a football friendly on October 3rd at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, a momentous occasion for Indian football as it will be the first time the two nations meet in a senior men's international All-Indian soil. The All-India Football Federation is billing it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the players to play against the five-time World Cup winners

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who are currently ranked fifth in the world. India also plays Panama during this international National window as well as Uruguay. The India-Brazil match was announced months ago and there has understandably been a lot of hype around the fixture, particularly among Brazil fans in India.

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