Reportage
Jamshedpur FC: The club Tata built, and walked away from
Tata Steel spent Rs 321 crore and nine years building Indian football’s most credible club. Jamshedpur FC’s nine-year run ended on an unpaid invoice of Rs 55 lakh.
All India Football Federation
Reportage
Passported out
India spent 18 years turning away footballers who wanted to play for it. A proposal now with the Prime Minister’s Office would reopen the door, if New Delhi and FIFA can agree on what nationality means.
Analysis
Eight years of FIFA, one last bet for Zee
A promoter family capped below 4%, a billion-dollar claim in London, a shrinking core business, and an eight-year promise to world football’s governing body. Zee’s FIFA deal reads less like a sports play than a final, high-risk wager on whatever leverage it still retains.
Reportage
What Genius Sports really wants from Indian football
Why Genius Sports, a NYSE-listed B2B sports data and technology firm, has bid Rs 2,129 crore for the Indian Super League—a competition it cannot legally monetise in India. The mystery is what exactly it’s buying.
Reportage
Indian football’s impossible restart
How the ISL is attempting to rebuild in 39 days what took a decade to construct