Can India break into the top 50 of FIFA ranking in 10 years?

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Sports Minister believes it can > https://www.deccanherald.com//sport...a-rankings-in-next-10-years-mandaviya-3296058

India is currently ranked 125th. The domestic leagues and grassroots programs are poorly structured. There is a lack of quality infra and academies, plus there is no international exposure.

The situation is probably extremely similar to those of associate countries in the world of cricket. If ICC with all its resources is not able to bring the associates up, can India with its lack of interest be able to do it for football? One thing going for India which is not the case with Associate nations of cricket is population.
 
I started watching them about a year ago when we were ranked around 98. I thought this might be the lowest we will be in the coming future, but I was so wrong.
Supporting, IFT is a torture that one lays upon themselves.

Situation is at par as Bangladesh cricket team. Board is hella corrupt and too much political bootlicking going on. The only good thing that happened was that we got rid of Igor Stimac as a coach.
Our neighbouring countries are doing so much better than us in football.
 
At the start of ISL there was hope that some great dividend was on the horizon. Not now. Only recent positive seems to be the better reach for the football related events due to social media.

There is definitely talent. But to attract talent is difficult as it will require a lot of effort in social and financial change. I understand how good top 50 sounds now. But targeting only top 50 and a myopic period like 10 years doesn't give any confidence.
 
No. We need to cultivate a mindset where sport players are not made fun of and ridiculed by others as just wasting time playing. This horrible mind set needs to change and sports academies need to come up in every city with their own practice grounds for sports other than cricket. Only the govt has funds and money to do this. But they don't have the mindset to think such things. Personally I'm fed up of seeing only cricket get such high importance in such a big country. There are other games too and we have enough population to fill the entire world and people are mad about cricket only. Fed up of this country's attitude. Just imagine if other sports got a body like BCCI for holding inter state contests and players got crores of money as rewards! Then no matter what sports it was, even if it was curling, it would have been popular.
 
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