If somebody is a great cricketer, I am all right admiring him irrespective of his nationality; that’s fine. But the question is: why is such adulation and such expenditure reserved only for people outside your own country? Indian soccer is totally starved of funds, but the same fans will not spend this money, not even a fraction of this money. Are we really poor, or are we just poorly directed? We don’t know the right direction to move in because we don’t know the right center to have.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji. I am Aditya from Kolkata. So my question is regarding the Lionel Messi GOAT tour that’s been going on in our country in four cities, and you must have known what had happened in Kolkata with respect to the event.
As soon as we knew that Messi was going to come, we were expecting that he would play some match or something. But as soon as we got to know about the schedule, some of us immediately boycotted it, and we could kind of sense what was going on.
My question is regarding fan psychology. After things went south, there were some protests, and we have seen that a ruckus has been going on in the stadium. So why don’t we see the same thing when our country is not qualifying for the 2027 Asian Cup, or for that matter when our top league, the ISL, has been in a halt for some time and we don’t know what the future holds? What kind of a fan psychology is this, that we worship celebrities and we don’t actually protest when things matter?
