why no Indian footballer plays in any English Premier League Club or any Foreign Club?

Answer 1

Not good enough would probably be the answer. To get into the premier league you are going to have to shine in a international competition somewhere so you get noticed.

Answer 2

Dhorasoo is not an Indian citizen. No matter what his accomplishments are, they are recorded with him as a French national.
India has done nothing to promote any game other than cricket in the last decade. Only 2 regions, Kerala and Bengal show any interest in football. Facilities are 3rd rate. Bengal is anyway cricket crazy. There are no endorsements for any football star for him to become popular. The Indian football team is ranked 157th in the latest FIFA rankings. Indian football players, though coached by an Englishman, are not backed up and given attention by the cricket crazy government. As a result, there is no development in the game in the country.
The BCCI is riddled with politicians. It shows how much attention politicians give to cricket in a country which fails very often in cricket. Nobody wants to give up on cricket. I'm a true soccer fan. I never watch cricket especially if India plays because with a look at who their opponent is, I can say if they'll win or lose. We can't beat the top 6 teams and we lost to Bangladesh, who are ranked last. I never miss a Man Utd, Chelsea or Bayern match.

Answer 3

To be able to play in such high level competitions one must be able to absorb the pressure of that stage and also should be strong, mentally, to counter any abuse or aggression from the opposition players.
In India, most of the people give importance to Cricket rather than Football. So, you don't find our Indian Football players enjoying the facilities like state-of-the-art gyms to work out, excellent stadia to play and display their game and also not too many endorsements to be popular. Even if the player has talent, it has to be backed by some very good sponsor for all the popularity that he requires to play in those leagues.
You can just imagine, how partial many people are when it comes to improving and marketing the sportsman talent of the country.

Answer 4

EPL has Michael Chopra who is of Indian origin. Incidentally, he is also the first person of Indian origin to score a goal in premiership.

Answer 5

sorry my friend maichun bhutyia is playing for English Premier,why not other because we are only playing cricket and all other facility is only for cricket.

Answer 6

because indians are not very good at football

Answer 7

bcoz our youth made for cricket and west time no one politician or any youth try to improve foot ball standard also no support to corporate world

Answer 8

no i think so not

Answer 9

ndian soccer succeeds - in France

As French team FC Lyon celebrated winning the national league championship last Wednesday, not too many eyebrows were raised when the club's player of the season award was presented to Vikash Dhorasoo; he's been a loyal and popular servant of the club.
But it was a big moment for Indian sport: Dhorasoo, a creative midfielder, became the first footballer of Indian origin to be part of a major European title-winning outfit.
Born in Mauritius to Indian parents, Dhorasoo - who follows in the footsteps of Fijian golfer Vijay Singh - is one of several footballers of Indian origin making their name in Europe (see story 'Indians 1, Soccer 0' in Section II). And offers hope, after the failure of Baichung Bhutia in England, that footballing genes do run in Indian blood.
Dhorasoo's family, including his parents, brothers and a sister, still live in Mauritius, and there's no longer any apparent direct link with India. But forget inviting him here for the big NRI/PIO bash: Dhorasoo can't find time even to return to Mauritius. "Not even on holidays, because there's too much taking up my time here in France," he says.
Much of it has to do with good football. Rated the Best Player of Indian Origin in Europe by the India-watching website indianfootball.com, the 30-year-old's playmaking skills have taken the club to new heights in recent times.
Indeed, Dhorasoo has been in the news practically throughout his playing career since winning the World Army Cup for France in 1995 and has been linked with transfers to top clubs Arsenal, Juventus and Liverpool. He's won 28 caps for the French under-21 and U-23 teams but a call-up to the senior national side - the one which won the World Cup in 1998 and the European Championship two years later - never worked out.
Though Dhorasoo himself is unwilling to discuss it, the reason is clear: he plays in the same position as does Zinedine Zidane, the world's best, and before him Didier Deschamps.
In cricketing terms, think Dilip Doshi and the Indian spin quartet.
What does the future hold? At 30, he's reaching the end of his career but he has a practical viewpoint: "The only thing I know how to do is play, and play to the best of my ability. I know I can't play this well all my life. So I want to do as much as I can now."
He's certainly doing that, in large doses.

Indians 1, Soccer 0
After decades out in the cold, people of Indian origin are finally making it big in Europe's football fields, writes Shamya Dasgupta.
A moment of sporting history was made in the past week that went largely unnoticed: Vikash Dhorasoo became the first player of Indian origin to win a major football medal when his club Olympique Lyonnaise won the French First Division title.
And Dhorasoo wasn't some substitute playing cameo roles; he is acknowledged as the team's creative spark - he was their player of this season - and has made it to the division's all-star XI. Born in Mauritius to Indian parents, Dhorasoo has been making waves in French football for six-odd years now, likened in style to Zinedine Zidane and linked with transfers to Arsenal, Juventus and Liverpool, among others.
He is only one of several PIOs, to use a popular phrase, who have started to shine in the top football leagues around the world. Leading the charge (see box) are Newcastle's Michael Chopra - being groomed as a replacement for ageing goalscorer Alan Shearer - and Harpal Singh of Leeds; others include Kiran Bechan of Ajax Amsterdam in Holland and - famously reported - Aman Dosanj, whose life reads better than Bend it like Beckham.
In England, Holland, France, Scandinavia, Germany, as far away as the US, second and third generation expat Indians have been making a name for themselves on the football field.
Teams from India, and teams in Europe made up of PIOs, now play an annual International Indian Football Series in Germany. And, come February, Dubai will see the first Indian Mini World Cup, where a couple of Indian teams will compete against selected sides with players of Indian origin from across the world.
It's been a long time coming. Till well into the 1990s, the common perception in countries like the United Kingdom was that Asians couldn't play football and Indians were good only for cricket and hockey - and, at a pinch, tennis.
The first impression was wiped out by players from Japan, Korea and China making their way to clubs across Europe, including England's Premier League. The second has just begun to change.
You could, of course, say that the trend was set by Baichung Bhutia but he was rarely more than a marginal figure - lacking even novelty value - during his two-season spell at Bury.
It wasn't Baichung's fault that he couldn't cut it in England; he was an outsider, and it's tough enough for those born and raised in England - or anywhere in Europe - to break the glass ceiling. For one, there were no role models to follow. Aspiring cricketers can look up to Nasser Hussain and Mark Ramprakash (who could look up to Ranji and the Pataudis) and anyway cricket is a hegemony of the subcontinent. Tennis players like Arvind Parmar had the Amritrajs.
Football players had no one. Now, of course, they do. Though he says he doesn't see himself as a role model for the community, Chopra acknowledges the potential impact of his success on other Asians. "The fact that I have become the first player with an Indian background to make a breakthrough in England is bound to attract attention and I am flattered by it - especially if it means something to the Asian community and encourages more kids to make it in the professional game."
It's an impetus sorely needed because PIOs have long been out of the talent scouts' radar. Jas Bains and Sanjiev Johal addressed this issue in their 1998 book on the Asian football experience, Corner Flags and Corner Shops (itself a reference to the old joke, What does an Indian footballer do when he gets a corner? Answer: build a shop on it.)
The authors write: "While Asian boys play football comparable to other groups, for the most part, it is outside the recognised system. Consequently, Asian boys are overlooked by clubs' scouting operations. The Asian community is also less aware of the recruitment system than other groups."
Part of the problem stemmed from the home front. The problem faced by Jasminder in Bend it... extends to boys as well. If girls in the Indian community had to learn how to make alu gobi, the boys grew up to manage the family business. There was no other way.
Interestingly, the girls broke out of their shell far quicker than the boys; Dosanj, who played for Arsenal Ladies, and Parminder Jhooti (Fulham Ladies) were stars before Chopra and Harpal.
Then there's the Big R. Racism is alive, if not exactly kicking, across European football. officially and actively condemned, it still rears its ugly head enough to keep non-whites out of the sport.
It is, of course, a complicated issue and one that few current footballers accept exists. Chopra, for example, doesn't want to discuss the topic. "My family's background has never been a big issue in my life, it's only recently that people have started referring to it. Like many thousands of Geordies (those from the Newcastle area) I grew up loving football and am fanatical about Newcastle United."
Dosanj, currently with Lee University, Ohio, says, "I have never felt disadvantaged in any way because I am of Indian origin. I have personally never experienced racism in British or American football. If we are good, I think teams will take us."
Not so, says sports sociologist Boria Majumdar, currently at Oxford University researching the social history of Indian cricket. "Racism is very much there. Even in sports. Remember, the Bedford riots took place barely a couple of years back."
Why, then, do blacks do so well? Well, two reasons really. First; blacks are genetically stronger and fitter - the strongest and fittest, in fact. Their sporting pedigree is second to none and their physique is ideally suited to the hard, fast style of football in Europe.
Second - and those who have watched the series Dream Team currently running on the sports channels will be aware of this - they are sometimes recruited as trophies, the token black, Especially early on - the late 1970s, when the first black started playing in the top flight - and especially in areas where they had a high concentration (the East End of London, the Midlands towns).
Once the breakthrough was made, it was easier for talent to make its mark.
In the past few years, two developments made the crossover easier for those of Indian origin. First, the style of football has changed, especially in England. Physique is not as important as before, ball-playing skills - which Dhorasoo, for example, has in plenty and which require agility and dexterity - are in greater demand.
Second, the image of football has changed from a working-class sport to the biggest money-spinner outside the US. The shrewd shop-owning father will see that there's more to be gained letting his son - or, indeed, daughter - kick a ball than man the till. And if you're talking of social climbing, well, there are more knighthoods being given out in England to football than cricket.
But there's a long way to go yet. "Lots of Indians are coming up", says Majumdar, "but no one has made the top grade yet. It's because of the attitude of these players that the glass ceiling remains intact. I think they remain close to India in some senses, but are affected by the money and the glamour. It's a problem area. But maybe it will take a few more years and after that they will become more successful. This is the first generation. It might take one more for the attitudinal change to happen."
The Football Association (FA) has also woken up to the presence and the potential of Asian football. On May 13, the FA-organised Football For All conference at Derby's Pride park Stadium discussed the promotion of the game at the grassroots level, and to involve ethnic minorities in Britain as part of the drive. Chopra and Harpal were two of the "ethnic minority" players who got special mention at the conference, which, as Dermot Collins of the English Football Association said, "is an opportunity to learn more about the communities we attempt to serve and give people the confidence to access the FA's resources and programmes."
What these measures - the Indian tournaments in Germany and Dubai, and the steps taken by FA - are bound to do, is promote the game in a big way among Indians living abroad. Add to that the success of some of the players, and there might come a time when more Indian youngsters can take to the game.
Harpal knows what it means: "It will be great if Indians and Asians in England see me and feel they can also do well. There is a lot of potential, but they have to play the game seriously to do well."
Their success will doubtless make the professional level more accessible to the Indian community, for whom the glass ceiling was one never to be tampered with. Now, the first cracks are beginning to appear. Soon, perhaps, there'll be more corner flags than corner shops.