Indian football is in crisis. The All India Football Federation (AIFF) failed to find any buyers for the Indian Super League’s commercial rights, leaving the future of the country’s top football league in limbo. Players like Sunil Chhetri, Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and Sandesh Jhingan are pleading for answers as legacy clubs like Mohun Bagan suspend operations. With no direction from the AIFF, even calls for BCCI, cricket’s richest body, to intervene are growing louder. But can cricket really rescue football? Or is Indian football’s biggest problem sitting inside its own federation? Rupha Ramani with details.
