To: goa.kranti@gmail.com
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 12:22 PM
Subject: League matches
Dear Editor,
How are you doing? Nice to see the Kuwait-Indian football updates on GOA KRANTI. I must say that our last match we played was really a testing one given the conditions. Credit to each and every player for keeping up against the odds.
Anyways, I would just like to put my personal view with regards to the next match (semi-final). I feel it is utter ridiculous to be playing in such conditions. Irrespective of what others think about it or have to say, I stand by my views.
It is nonsense to see the KIFF administrators who were present for the match on Friday to carry on with the 2nd match given the weather conditions. End of the day what do they care, for them it’s become like a formality to finish off the season like any other season. Given the number of injuries that happened on the ground (more injuries than one can see goals), I wonder if they even care for that or they have any brains in their head. They could have easily abandoned the 2nd match given the weather conditions. I don’t think anyone would have complained, but might have said it’s a sensible decision. But as always it looks like common sense is very uncommon and the same applies much to people in KIFF.
I doubt the club responsible to organize the semis will take any interest. In Kuwait everyone loves to play football for the fun of it. but not the way we played our last match on Friday. End of the day the only satisfaction each one gets playing football is self-satisfaction and the fun involved playing. Besides that there’s nothing to football here. If that very basic satisfaction is deprived then what’s the point in risking oneself in these conditions. You understand what I mean.
I think it’s high time someone like the KRANTI blog stands up and says that if something is wrong then it is wrong. I find most of the club presidents here are scarecrows who will go out of their way to be in the limelight than voice against these kinda issues. As for me, I will make it very clear that I am not committing to play the semi-finals if we should be playing in a furnace. I have respect for my fellow players in the team as well, but then it’s up to them. It’s their choice. I would love to play as well, but I simply think that KIFF takes every club for granted. I cannot talk on behalf of my club, but I can speak for myself.
By the way, please this has nothing to do with my club. But the way things are run here (KIFF), its simply annoying. If KIFF has to arrange a grass ground (which I don’t expect) for the semis & finals of such a so-called prestigious league named after a late footballer, they should do it, cause now they had the dance and they ought to have some money in hand.
I feel the only thing KIFF does is, chalks the football calendar for the year. And waste time in petty squabbles with club issues and player issues. But as far as contribution to the game is concerned, there’s hardly anything coming out from the KIFF organization. KIFF only co-ordinates with clubs, which is something clubs can handle themselves. I can’t believe it – an organization which represents the only Expat Indian Football scene here in Kuwait and that too for so many years, forget that, they don’t even work or think on any lines. All they want to say is “I am,… Mr. Idiot is the president of KIFF in Kuwait” No other gulf country boasts of 19 clubs with full fledged leagues. All these people are taking undue credit. And whoever is the President of KIFF must be thinking he’s like some VIP here….
I hope I will not be denied an opportunity to play the semis, thanks to a bunch of fools who run the game in Kuwait.
Rgds
KIFF player
(Name & email withheld)
