Alright, I’m very very late on this, but it must be posted. Being in India to experience the Indian Cricket Team win the World Cup on home soil was special. The whole thing from the excitement in the air during both the Semifinal & Final, the goosebumps on my arms and tears in my eyes …
Humans are programmed to talk and talk and talk and talk. I’ve found that Indians especially love to hear their own voice. It’s now been over a year of working in sports in India and I’ve heard more talk about future plans, great ideas, etc… than I heard in 7 years at MLS. Now I’m …
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I posted earlier about my less than extraordinary experience at the South Africa v West Indies ICC Cricket World Cup match. I kept wondering what it would have been like if I attended an India match. As luck would have it, a friend of mine got me suite tickets for the India v Netherlands match at litterally the last second. We showed …
We officially closed the Conscient Premier Football League on Wednesday, March 2nd. Here is a link to an article about the event: It was an extraordinary experience for me. The top 10 highlights include: 1. Creating the opportunity for 3000 people to watch a professional football match 2. Creating the opportunity for the CPFL participants …
This has nothing to do with sports but figured I would post it any way. It’s a short piece I wrote about a recent overnight bus ride I took to Punjab to assist at a Landmark Education event. Was quite an experience: It’s Saturday night at 7:00pm and I’m on the Indian Railways website booking a …
A friend of a friend is a polo player and happens to live in a beautiful Haryana farm house with a polo ground attached. He invited me to attend a polo match at his place which was being hosted for the Swedish Ambassador. The combination of watching a new sport + free food + an …
After booking tickets for my first trip to India, the next thing I did was type “Youth Football India” into Google to see what comes up. The first link was for the India Youth Soccer Association’s website http://www.indiayouthsoccer.com/. I clicked on it and was happy to see Indian kids in uniforms playing organized football. After …
This is how my friends and I feel when we play football after a hearty Indian lunch!
The ICC Cricket World Cup is being hosted in India right now. Given that after I somehow managed not to get tickets for any of the 1994 FIFA World Cup matches, I promised myself that I will attend at least one match of ANY World Cup of any sport hosted in the country I’m currently living in. This promise hadn’t really …
There is a perception that Indian parents are the Sports Grinch. That not only do they never want their kids to play sports because it interferes with academics, but that they don’t play sports themselves. This may be true for many Indian parents; however my experience over the weekend proved this theory wrong. The sidelines of our Conscient …
