The suspended IPL Chief Commissioner, Lalit Modi is geared up to revamp the Indian Football this time. After taking Cricket to a new high, Modi along with AIFF and Peter Kenyon, Ex- Chief Executive of ManU and Chelsea is set to organize a club tournament in 2011. The tournament to be played in Kolkata and Delhi will comprise of 8 Clubs. Six clubs will participate from Europe, one will be from India and the last one will either be from S.Korea or Japan.
According to information available, Lalit Modi’s ‘Modi Entertainment’ has already signed a contract with AIFF. A joint committee to draw up plans for the tournament has been formed. Representatives of Modi Entertainment and AIFF members comprising of Jadeja, Biswanathan, Tempa Bhatia and Utpal Ganuly are members of the joint-committee.
The tournament to be played in July 2011 will be the first of its kind in India. With people like Peter Kenyon taking interest, it’s hopeful that big clubs will be involved. And with Lalit Modi trying to prove a point to BCCI that he can turn around anything, he will leave no stone unturned to make a tournament a huge success. If everything goes as per plan the tournament will surely be of IPL’s kind.
If this tournament at all is held, then I hope Indian football will take a giant leap. Whether the tournament will be held just in 2011 or in the subsequent years also could not be ascertained yet. Till then we have to wait and see whether Modi can do Indian football the Cricket way.
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