Mumbai FC the new trend in indian football

Few months ago when the Essel group announced plans to start a new football club I never felt they were serious. But now here comes a new mighty driving force in Indian club football, Mumbai FC. After seeing clubs like Chelsea, Birmingham City and so on I had always dreamt of a club named after aamchi Mumbai and now my dreams have been fulfilled. Also the club logo with the Gateway of India in the background looks interesting. Led by the ex-Mahindra United English coach David Booth and guess what Henry Menezes as their general manager, Mumbai FC seems to be having big plans. After being given a boot by the BCCI Essel group does seem serious about football now. Inspite of the parallel cricket series being started alongside which may end in a few years, in the long run it seems the ultimate winner is going to be India football. Its great news to see even other corporates showing interest in football.

Mumbai FC currently plans to use the facilities, gyms and training grounds of the Thakur group in Kandivili till they find land and build a new stadium. Its a shame that a huge rich city like Mumbai still doesn’t have a football stadium and the Cooperage grounds is in tatters lets hope we might see a new football stadium in the coming years. Can this be called the revival of western indian and Indian football, well Yes. Looking at the grand plans AIFF has for Indian club football there seems to be some change coming around after the visit of FIFA chief Steve Blatter.

The NFL is now going to be renamed I-League, matches will be held during weekends under floodlights, high quality match telecast and presentation, designer kits, live streaming over the internet seem to be some of the grand plans. Let’s pray the plans even though sound hyper does succeed. But at the end of the day the ultimate winners are going to be the Indian football fans.