FOOTBALL: It's a Game for All
Women's football is making a slow but steady progress in the country from the days when we used to hear "Keti jasto na khel hai" (Don't play like a girl) to this day, girls have proved football is not just a Man's game. The Indian Women's team just won the South Asian Games Gold medal by defeating Nepal 2-0. Both the goals were scored by Bala Devi who was on trails recently with Rangers FC. I am not too aware about the history of women's football in India but for myself it all started as a kid in my village. That was for the very first time I had watched girls playing football and with no offence to anyone it was a boring affair. Girls running in a pack wherever the ball went and shooting wherever they felt like and some running aimlessly around the ground. For many years after that I was not in touch with women's football may be I watched a few games of the world cup thats it. Next chance came when I was working with Zee Sports in 2009-10 I gu