“V” see “others” play !
“V” watch, clap and also feel excited while watching other nations play and rule the sports grounds and tournaments.
When I discuss Soccer with my students or watch events like Olympics than i feel desperate to discuss any Pakistani player representing the country in clubs like Manchester United,Real Madrid or Pakistan at the top of medal tables in Olympics or a Pakistani player playing against Nadal and Pakistani flags waiving in wimbildon but than i suddenly come out of imagination and fantasies and i look around only to realize that like every other department our National Sports federations display a typical “Why work can’t be done attitude!” They will keep on explaining (if someone asks during any international tournament)what are the reasons for lacking representation at international sports events or under performance of our team but you would almost never find them discussing ideas of overcoming budget shortage and launching training programs.
By now every living Pakistani knows that “V” are a poor nation so if “V” want to improve our performance in sports than “V” need to consider following aspects.
Sports help in keeping integrity of a nation alive ,bring honor to a nation and teach it to compete and fight.
Money does matter but efforts and ideas are more significant.“V” have the examples of very poor nations winning Olympic medals and poor players making it to the top.
A lot can be learned just by watching the champions play but in the long run infrastructure support is required so for every sports association it should be made compulsory to achieve realistic and measurable targets of expanding infrastructure or at least for managing a pool of coaches for conducting camps at schools,colleges and universities.
Careers in sports are too risky and unreliable so study scholarships can be offered to kids with talent for any sports .This way young children would have family support to allocate time for sports.
Sports are becoming more and more scientific.Technology and technique is not likely to be brought in by the people who don’t believe that “V” can win so if a sports minister does not deliver or a Sports office bearer does not produce results than they should be removed from their offices.
Sponsors are attracted to what is popular in masses .If high prize value tournaments are organized for non professionals than that would attract crowd to such sports which are not commonly popular in urban and social population simultaneously like Football,Basketball,Baseball Rugby etc.These are also the sports which provide an opportunity to make a career in international clubs and have international sponsorship deals with huge money and recognition.
Sponsorships can bring in the required investment for infrastructure development.
