Football fever
spreading in Pallavaram
With shrinking
playgrounds and expanding population, Chennaites move towards soccer
Chennai,
The one game nation, cricket is a
religion, sachin is our god… are long gone sayings in Pallavaram.
When
recently visited Jamin Pallvaram, a part of Pallavaram municipality, a bunch of
twenty in their early twenties play soccer furiously wearing jersey’s of
Neymar, Messi and Ronaldo and so on.
The
Football grounds coincidentally (totally three in closer proximity) placed near
Tambaram-Beach sub-urban railway tracks. The furious shouting of players rose
above the noise of passing trains.
When
asked Siva one of the senior of the bunch about how they made a playground from
a barren land so closely to the tracks, he said, “This place on which the
ground is set belongs to railways, but, because
it was abandoned for a long time, we made a football ground eight years
ago.”
The
youth bunch is confident that the railway department will not occupy this land.
Because this has become a part of their residence which has been here for three
decades now.
Although,
playiong soccer is so much fun, the local boys feel that there is no motivation
or oppurtunities for highly talented kids play here day and night.
“Some
go upto zoonal level competition and many of us play local league matches, but to participate
competition of higher level we need money. If oppurtunities is given, things
will different.” Said, Williams, another senior player, concerned about young
lads.
On
Top: The soccer bunch.
Football fever
spreading in Pallavaram
With shrinking
playgrounds and expanding population, Chennaites move towards soccer
Chennai,
The one game nation, cricket is a
religion, sachin is our god… are long gone sayings in Pallavaram.
When
recently visited Jamin Pallvaram, a part of Pallavaram municipality, a bunch of
twenty in their early twenties play soccer furiously wearing jersey’s of
Neymar, Messi and Ronaldo and so on.
The
Football grounds coincidentally (totally three in closer proximity) placed near
Tambaram-Beach sub-urban railway tracks. The furious shouting of players rose
above the noise of passing trains.
When
asked Siva one of the senior of the bunch about how they made a playground from
a barren land so closely to the tracks, he said, “This place on which the
ground is set belongs to railways, but, because
it was abandoned for a long time, we made a football ground eight years
ago.”
The
youth bunch is confident that the railway department will not occupy this land.
Because this has become a part of their residence which has been here for three
decades now.
Although,
playiong soccer is so much fun, the local boys feel that there is no motivation
or oppurtunities for highly talented kids play here day and night.
“Some
go upto zoonal level competition and many of us play local league matches, but to participate
competition of higher level we need money. If oppurtunities is given, things
will different.” Said, Williams, another senior player, concerned about young
lads.
On
Top: The soccer bunch.
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