Mission Impossible – India in Football World Cup

Yesterday we saw Spain winning the world cup. This was the first occasion that they had reached to the finals of the world cup. They are also current EURO Champions. I don’t know how it can be called World Cup if India and China not participating i.e. 40% of all world population. I was wondering when would India qualify for the world cup and I thought of few scenarios where India would QUALIFY.

1) Hosting a world cup - This is the easiest and most costliest route. The route which South Africa chose. They have paid the price for that apart from few stadiums and trains there is nothing to show on the performance front. We can do that, anyways we have wasted so much money for Commonwealth games which only few countries where British ruled participate. We beat these helpless teams and pat our backs. Instead we can divert this wastage for football. This is unlikely scenario as we are at early 120's ranking. We at least need to go to mid 80's.

2) Create Separate group for South Asia - This can be done as there or 7-8 countries here and can hope to win regional tournament. This is also going very difficult as Sri Lankans and Bangladesh have good teams and can make us run for our money. Now Afghanistan have qualified for 20-20 Cricket World Cup and soon they will qualify for Football World Cup as they have better physical strength than us and they don’t know much about Cricket.

3) Create group of 5 Most populous countries - This is also easy we will be top this category for very long and will keep topping for most of the future.

4) Teams representing NRI, PIO - As there are near about 3 Crore Indians outside and each countries have them except obliviously Pakistan. But they don’t need Indians as they have enough of themselves.. ha ha ha..
But I am not sure if actual Indian's from India would qualify so we can make them permanent member of the group like UN. Even though we haven’t got a permanent seat over there.

5) Global Worming - This can help us. You might be thinking how this is possible but think as level of sea rises it would submerge many small nations and hence reduce the number of countries to compete. Some footballer would come to India as we can any time accommodate them as we all as no problem with population. This will be very cruel way to qualify but this is likely scenario till 2050 and way for qualification for India.

As Darwin has said 'Survival of the fittest' not qualifying for this big event is good. Instead of getting beaten by these world class teams, we can enjoy this beautiful game without being getting disappointed like Cricket. See we cannot do a single thing without cricket, in that to we have failed in recent past.

There could be many more scenario's I would be happy if you mention those. Let’s hope India qualifies for this tournament with right route. I am not sure it could happen in my lifetime but in our future generations this is possibility.