“Before Taliban it was football and after Taliban it was football….” On December 11th, 2011 – a dejected 20-year-old Zohib Islam Amiri knew he would have to work a lot harder to prove his credentials on the international stage. Afghanistan had just lost in the finals of the…

An American writer once said, “There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are; a price for everything.” It is a fitting phrase for the I-league, India’s premier club football competition, as an entity.…