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Globally, the beautiful game witnessed the good, bad and ugly in equal measure.

Constantine feels that most of the Indian footballers do not have strong command on the basics primarily due to a lack of football culture ...

Ganguly also welcomed the transformation of artificial turf to natural grass in the Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan.

Bhutia also pointed out that state associations needed to play a bigger role in spotting and scouting for talents from grassroot levels.