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Kathmandu,Saturday January 29, 2000 Magh 15th, 2056.
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Interest
in football waning
Just
the other day, I was in a discussion with my friends how in a few
years the popularity of cricket could outdo the popularity of
football in Nepal. Your anchor news, "Death of the
spectator" in The Kathmandu Post (January 27) confirmed my
reading of the football scenario.
My
point is that we Nepalese have a strong attachment to football and
will not agree to have any other game overtake it. Perhaps we have all
grown up playing football in alleyways. We have our sentiments
attached to this sport but aren’t the budding kids doing the same as
far as cricket is concerned.
Our
past attachment to the game is the only aspect in which the football
spirit lives within many of us but it is also true that the football
match advert went unnoticed by so many so called supporters of
football. They had little to say when I showed them the advertisement.
Not a single of them could tell what the tournament was about despite
the enthusiastic participation of Nepalese supporters during the SAF
games
I
think football needs a big boost otherwise who knows, the kids playing
cricket in alleyways today will have their own attachment to cricket
and my prediction could be true.
Kendra
Rabi Shrestha
Seto Durbar, Kathmandu |
