India’s Football Dream - Softcover

Gupta, Shantanu; Sharma, Nikhil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9353283051 ISBN 13: 9789353283056

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

India is ready for football’s strongest comeback. ′India’s Football Dream′ is a modern day guidebook to Indian Football that extensively covers the journey Indian Football has made from inception till the biggest event till date, FIFA U17 World Cup 2017. The book while talking about inception of the sport and its growth in India is also focussed towards to modern day leagues such as Indian Super League & I-League. Football is the sport that the world plays and it has been a very popular sport in India. With rich and illustrious past in India the sport is now making a very strong come back in India. Young children across India are now taking on to Football. The book aims to take the readers on a fascinating journey of the sport of Football through a diverse India and how the sport captured attention of millions of Indians in various regions. So Hop on the fascinating journey of the sport of football."

About this title

About the Author:

Shantanu Gupta is an Indian author, TEDx speaker and political analyst. His latest book The Monk Who Became Chief Minister―biography of Yogi Adityanath, is listed as the ‘Most memorable Non-Fiction Book of 2017’ by Amazon. Shantanu has an engineering degree from GB Pant University, Management education from XLRI, Jamshedpur, and did his masters in policy and politics from Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex (United Kingdom). He has worked for a decade as a process and management consultant in many cities in India, Switzerland, Cyprus, Hungry and Israel. He has represented India at many international conferences on economy and policy, in Germany, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.

Shantanu has authored three more books―Uttar Pradesh, Vikas Ki Pratiksha Mein (Bloomsbury), Compilation of Prime Minister’s Mann Ki Baat (Kapot Books) and Education Policy in India―Voice, Choice and Incentives (CCS).

Review:

"It’s great to see a book capturing the magical journey of Indian football being written. I wish the book, India’s Football Dream and its authors Mr Shantanu Gupta & Mr Nikhil Sharma the very best and hope it serves as a tool to educate every Indian about the ‘beautiful game’ in our country."

Author: Praful Patel, Source: President, All India Football Federation

"I feel a great sense of pride each time I pull on the India national team jersey. It is important readers get to know the history of Indian football and the various stories related to it. It’s nice that the book aims to take the readers through this majestic journey."

Author: Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Source: India National Team Goalkeeper, First Indian to play in the UEFA Europa League

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 9353283051
• ISBN 13: 9789353283056
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260