For men of a certain age, of a certain bearing, in certain parts of urban India, the word 'desi' - when read on the internet, brings back memories of midnights spent looking at the monitor, to the pre-historic, parent-waking screech of the VSNL modem, of floppy-disks full of desiness and sleepy red eyes at high school. For the first generation growing up with Internet, bedtime meant three hours after the parents pack it in.
Apart from the desi-videsi delights on the internet, however, there was one thing that made the midnight oil burn. For, these men of a certain age, of a certain bearing, in certain parts of urban India were also the first generation growing up with a regular helping of international football. The Premier League and the Champions League. In previous generations the god fearing Indian football enthusiast would only swear allegiance to the Almighties of football. Your Pele's and Maradona's. Any mention of Garrincha, Eusebio or, god forbid, Cruyff, Beckenbauer was the ultimate in football hipsterdom. It is true, that the term 'Total Football' set fire to imaginations, so much, that for a period, everything and anything came to pass as desi versions of total football.
Times have changed. All the major leagues are beamed across India. Time now, to make some sense of it.
DesiFooty is a blog which will showcase what we desi's think about football. Indian and global. To paraphrase Marcellus Wallace, if they play footy in Indo-China, we will have a desi hiding in a bowl o' rice - writing about it.
What kind of writing, you ask? The good kind, we answer.
It can be about anything. From a nostalgic piece about a kick-about in a park long years back, to serious hard-nosed writing about the global game - we aim to please all tastes. Apart from the match reports, scores, news updates etc. every now and again we will ask writers to write about the football they see around them. Be it on a telly, in a stadium, or your everyday streetside football.
Our contributors are everyday people from all walks of life, moonshining as football writers. Some of them are nice, some cynics, and then there are some you want to get under the bed and hide from - but they make a good read.
What we are committed to is telling stories about the beautiful game and the ways in which it pervades our lives. Why do we support what we support? Do they stand for something else? Why football? Why does this game bring out such fervent support? Desifooty is looking for stories around these questions and experiences. You know some? Shoot them our way.
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DesiFooty will be laid out soon. Till then, welcome, and have some appetizers.
Apart from the desi-videsi delights on the internet, however, there was one thing that made the midnight oil burn. For, these men of a certain age, of a certain bearing, in certain parts of urban India were also the first generation growing up with a regular helping of international football. The Premier League and the Champions League. In previous generations the god fearing Indian football enthusiast would only swear allegiance to the Almighties of football. Your Pele's and Maradona's. Any mention of Garrincha, Eusebio or, god forbid, Cruyff, Beckenbauer was the ultimate in football hipsterdom. It is true, that the term 'Total Football' set fire to imaginations, so much, that for a period, everything and anything came to pass as desi versions of total football.
Times have changed. All the major leagues are beamed across India. Time now, to make some sense of it.
DesiFooty is a blog which will showcase what we desi's think about football. Indian and global. To paraphrase Marcellus Wallace, if they play footy in Indo-China, we will have a desi hiding in a bowl o' rice - writing about it.
What kind of writing, you ask? The good kind, we answer.
It can be about anything. From a nostalgic piece about a kick-about in a park long years back, to serious hard-nosed writing about the global game - we aim to please all tastes. Apart from the match reports, scores, news updates etc. every now and again we will ask writers to write about the football they see around them. Be it on a telly, in a stadium, or your everyday streetside football.
Our contributors are everyday people from all walks of life, moonshining as football writers. Some of them are nice, some cynics, and then there are some you want to get under the bed and hide from - but they make a good read.
What we are committed to is telling stories about the beautiful game and the ways in which it pervades our lives. Why do we support what we support? Do they stand for something else? Why football? Why does this game bring out such fervent support? Desifooty is looking for stories around these questions and experiences. You know some? Shoot them our way.
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DesiFooty will be laid out soon. Till then, welcome, and have some appetizers.
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