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New Delhi: <\/strong>All India Football Federation (AIFF) president Praful Patel lauded Portugal club Sporting Lisbon for signing Sunil Chhetri and said that it was the dawn of a new era in Indian football.<\/p>\n

Sporting signed Chhetri for the reserve (B) team on Thursday for a year to start with. <\/p>\n

“This is the beginning of a new era for Indian football but it shouldn’t stop here. For us to improve further and maybe in the coming years challenge the big countries, we need to have a strong foundation,” said Patel here.<\/p>\n

“The real issue is at the grass-roots level. The emphasis of the AIFF for the past few years is a strong youth development programme.”<\/p>\n

Patel, also union minister for heavy industries, said that the outlook on football was changing and the youth of the nation slowly but surely taking up football rather than cricket.<\/p>\n

“Preference of cricket changing now. Youngsters nowadays madly follow European football. They know everything about the English, Spanish and even the Bundesliga.” <\/p>\n

“When Sunil plays in Portugal, he will be the brand ambassador and will bring the focus of international football on India.”<\/p>\n

Talking about AIFF’s initiative towards youth prgrammes, the minister said that they had recently started three fully functional academies in Navi Mumbai.<\/p>\n

“Recently we started three academies in Navi Mumbai which are fully functional and 7-8 are to roll out more.” (IANS)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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