The Indian Football Story | The World Is Yours To Take | Chapter 2

On July 29, 1911, Mohun Bagan beat the East Yorkshire Regiment to lift the IFA Shield - the first time an Indian team beat the British. It was the match that gave India's freedom movement a much needed boost, and also helped usher in the golden age of football in India. Together, with Budweiser India, we're telling the story of the football match that started it all, and the years of glory that followed.
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[@abzfootballmaniac]

Thank you Vice Asia for recognising Indian football which most of us Indians still fail to do. And i thank all the legendary Indian footballers for giving their all for the love of the game irrespective of not even receiving 10% of the love and support they deserved. Thank you, Let's Football ☺️

[@ramesh47443]

❤️❤️

[@kartikrajsingh1895]

Stick less to cricket, more on football! Simple!

[@SAFFRONINFERNO]

@@kartikrajsingh1895 BANGLADESH sticks to cricket what they have achieved?

[@akkicr2852]

I'm a hard core Indian football fan I literally cry everytime I hear about the golden era of Indian football God knows what happened to us now we are nowhere, struggling hard to make our name in world football Huge respect to captain leader legend Sunil chettri who is carrying Indian football from a decade now. I hope we will come back soon 🇮🇳

[@prantikdas745]

India will be back bro

[@SauravStatingFacts]

Indian football is cringe

[@stxfdt1240]

@@SauravStatingFacts nope it aint

[@rumplestilskin223]

You will cry forever' 😂

[@kartikrajsingh1895]

There was no golden era 😂

[@ronydrocker]

Had leave this comment, once I went to a wedding in Kolkata, it was one of my very close family friends' daughter's. I was like 7-8, right now I am 32. And there I met I.M. Vijayan and sat on his lap to take a picture. Worst realisation for me is that my parents have lost that picture. But I think the memory is enough to last my lifetime. ❤️

[@rampauhzeliang2523]

We need to learn from our glorious past to revive our football!! 💪 Love from the state of Dr. T Ao💜🌸

[@namankulshrestha5373]

I am start watching football 2 yrs before But only some European leagues because I thought indian football doesn't have standard maybe still now But from last few months i love to watch indian football also like isl and many matches even now days i watch u20 and universities match under khelo india Hope it's grow and we hear indian national anthem in fifa

[@souradeepghosh1996]

I am amazed by this story! Coming from a family full of Mohun Bagan fans, I have only heard a glimpse of how glorious Indian football was back in the day. Through these videos, I am convinced that besides hockey, football was India's preferred choice of sports post-independence; if only we had the kind of coverage prowess and exposure we do these days, we'd have seen India going toe-to-toe against the European and South American behemoths. Unfortunately, lucky for cricket, 1983 happened right before India's economic fortunes took a positive turn, cementing its position as the top sport. However, I firmly believe there is hope for Indian football, and we'll reach the greatest stage again, especially with the expansion of the world cup to 48 teams!

[@jssj527]

3:48 wow Pakistani hockey players supporting Indian football team in Asian games final against Korea...much appreciated...

[@amlans5314]

Yeah Indo-Pak football has always been the more quieter compared to more cricket which has the most nationalistic and toxic fans. I heard Hockey used to be very toxic before but with decline of subcontinent hockey the intense rivalry died down eventually.

[@jssj527]

@@amlans5314 Cricket is hell of an overrated game in India..... it's a dying game outside of the subcontinent though.....ICC itself is confused as to which format of cricket they wanna promote....they call a 10 teams tournament the "World Cup"... what a joke.... 😂....

[@jssj527]

@@amlans5314 Cricket's existing fanbase in South Africa, England,West Indies,New Zealand,Sri Lanka are declining.... Only here in India ,people are mad about it....Go check comment section of highlights of other counties matches, almost all of them would be Indians....

[@mohammedhydertungekar9888]

Saw Maidaan movie that scene is missing from the movie

[@storyextract7742]

Joy mohunbagan 💚 ❤️ jai hind🇮🇳

[@jaydeepsen4769]

There's a Bengali movie called 'Egaro' (means 11) on the IFA Shield win against East Yorkshire regiment. I urge my fellow Indians to watch that movie. Know where it all started and understand how that win in a football match gave new fire to the Indian revolution against the British in Bengal.

[@Aditya77010]

Thnx bruh....but can pls tell me where I can find the movie and also in hindi bcz my language is hindi ....English too I can understand

[@nixonraj]

My first memory as a kid of a bicycle kick goal was by Shyam Thapa, a legend too in Indian football in my books. So the statement, India had not seen a bicycle kick goal before Bhaichung Bhutia is incorrect. Ask the Bengalis of Calcutta.

[@S7evn201]

What she said was that many people had not seen an Indian do a bicycle kick before. The match were bhaichung bhatia scored took place in Delhi. There is a possibility that nobody in Delhi saw an Indian do a kick like that. Till today Indian football is still concentrated in Kolkata. But that is changing with the introduction of Indian Super League.

[@jaydeepsen4769]

Ahh!!! 6th August, 1978. Kolkata Derby. We won 1-0 that day against East Bengal in the Calcutta League. Shyam Thapa's bicycle kick came after a cross from Subhash Bhowmik which was headed on by Mohammed Habib, sealed the win for Mohun Bagan. Goutam Sarkar was outstanding as usual too ❤️. I still have my dad's Shyam Thapa jersey no.22 with me and the jersey no.14 of Goutam Da that he gifted me for my birthday. We are Mariners for life ❤️

[@nixonraj]

@@jaydeepsen4769 👍👍

[@sanoojdevk872]

Indian football is in it's growth in these days more people are falling in love with football and so many youngsters are emerging with special talents and skills in football the Indian Super League is having a great eye by the football world so many collabs with the popular clubs around the world, so many quality foreign players those who played crucial roles in the top clubs of the popular leagues are coming to play in ISL and so many football legends like Diego carlos, Diego forlan, Marcco matterazi, Del piero, Anelka, Berbatov, Luis garcia played and Managed clubs as well and new football academies are sprouting up in the country ..and yes a positive impact has been developed and the world cup qualification is not so far to grab up❣🇮🇳

[@Nedumgottil]

Good luck to all the current indian footballers!

[@indianbanker3840]

Good luck to our Indian Football Team to get selection in 2026 Fifa world cup & upcoming AFC Cup. Request to all my fellow Indians to take a break from Cricket & give equal support to other sports....And let's revive & cheer for Indian Football ⚽.

[@anshulsharma312]

After watching both episodes I think we were not destined to play at the highest level for a long time. It's unfortunate to see that the association didn't prioritize FIFA and the sudden demise of Mr. Rahim paved the way for a great fall of football in India. On the other hand, hockey was doing good and then cricket took over big time. The future to be honest looks bleak but let's hope for the best.

[@nish6878]

Great episode waiting for the next one!

[@sattamsamratpanigrahi]

These videos bring smile and tears all at the same time to a Die-hard #IndianFootball fan like me .... What we could have achieved ...yet where we are ... Nevertheless we are with 🇮🇳 through every Thick n Thin🔥🙏🏼

[@DEVansh001]

I got to know so many new things about Indian football. I recently started watching football and its a great game

[@mayanksakhare7630]

We need football to grow in India

[@rageeth]

Ah, so happy to hear words of appreciation being spoken about I M Vijayan. 💙

[@johnmathews1354]

I hope one day i will see our nation India playing in world cup football

[@sudhanshututi]

Thank you Vice for these untold stories. I am hopeful that some day we will be able to see the golden period of indian football. Meanwhile JioCinema, the broadcaster for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 has revealed positive insights as follows: • 32 million viewers has tuned in JioCinema to watch the final match. • India was one of the nations with the highest digital audience for the FIFA World Cup with over 110 million viewers. • Indians had recorded 40 billion minutes of watch time being registered across Sports18 and JioCinema. • JioCinema remained the No. 1 downloaded free app on iOS and Android throughout the tournament. • For the first time ever, digital viewership exceeded the TV viewership • This is the highest ever engagement and viewership for a tournament where India hasn't participated.

[@Common-Man48]

Waiting for next chapter

[@bhaskarjyaachatterjee]

East Bengal and Mohun Bagan ❤

[@ayushbose599]

❤💛Joy East Bengal❤💛

[@astronautthoi297]

INDIAN FOOTBALL deserves more ❤️ and I'm hopefull we wil be a force in the football World in the future

[@vishalvpv]

What about goan contribution? bruno coutinho, sankhwalkar et al

[@djrock9634]

JOY MOHUN-BAGAN 💚💙🟢⚽❤️ FOOTBALL IS OUR BLOOD ⚽❤️⚽

[@HiteshKumar-ml1cu]

Thank you so much budweiser. ❤️ 🇮🇳

[@keegandsouza]

3:54 🙌

[@mahendrakumar-st8fw]

My grandfather is Olympian T.shanmugam.. played in 1952 Olympic..he as told team as focused more on Olympic

[@vinks8458]

Remembering v p satyan at the moment. Rip great player!

[@shivaprasad2003]

INDIAN FOOTBALL ❤️🇮🇳

[@dibyendumondal3869]

JOY MOHUNBAGAN 💚💜 THE NATIONAL CLUB OF INDIA

[@priyanshudas1]

Bengal the root of Indian football !!

[@sanjudas175]

Always....

[@rafeekvk7063]

I M Vijayan sir🔥🔥🔥

[@saurabhpola865]

I hope ISL can change the face of Indian Football with people taking their interests in watching these matches are more

[@jerilkgeorge1981]

I M Vijayan..🙏🙏

[@allbinthomas8281]

I m vijayan🔥 Black gem of kerala🔥🔥

[@subharansu-rm9mi]

What a video ☹☹☹. Hope indian football back strong as soon as possible🤞🤞💙💙💙

[@bharatavarsha10k]

Good job, Vice Asia!

[@bongmonkroyboy3302]

আমরা করবো জয়.....

[@surojeetchatterjee]

20 ta Ruti 2 Ghoti Dudh daily khete hoy. Tobe kora jay, Joy.

[@traveldiaries2912]

I am waiting for asia cup 2023

[@stephenprakash3714]

Hope that india will qualify for fifa 2026 🥲🇮🇳💙

[@jssj527]

Bollywood should make a film on Coach Syed abdur Rahim...

[@nsyoutubemedia]

8:30 Kerala s IM VIJAYAN. ❤️. മ്മടെ വിജയേട്ടൻ.

[@arjunps6776]

For those who want Indian football to grow, pick one club in India and support it. Become their die hard fans. Almost all big cities in India have their club. With increased popularity, more money will come in. That means more training facilities for players. Then we can become the top ten in Asia which will give us a great chance to qualify for the WC. So remember, support your club. I support Kerala Blasters. You?

[@sanjaybaniya6449]

NEROCA 😎

[@SAFFRONINFERNO]

China has put in BILLIONS on Football and they have reached nowhere MONEY is just one of the FACTOR

[@johnhonai4601]

​@@SAFFRONINFERNOChina had performed consistently in AFC Champions League with their teams reaching semi finals until a couple years ago when the Chinese govt imposed some restriction on club spending. China unlike India participates in most AFC Youth Championship and reaches knockout stage. There is clearly a rise in China football from investment. A poor performance in AFC Asian Cup 2024 should not suggest otherwise.

[@SAFFRONINFERNO]

@@johnhonai4601 Anyone can perform in club level with increased spending It proves nothing

[@alinsonignatious7573]

One of the main reason's for indian footballs fall is they abandoned Coach SA rahims style and philosophy which was way ahead of its time and was similar to the kind of football that johan Cruyff's holland and ajax played in the 70s 20 year's later and 50 years later by Barcelona and spain at the beginning of 21st century

[@shubhamediting4626]

Thankyou vice Asia 🥂❤️

[@samdim1240]

I hope a young Indian teenager is watching this and saying to himself, " I will win the World Cup!"

[@VIHANSINGH9119]

😊🙏👍

[@darkwolf2275]

Not only watch video.. Encourage others also.. Send your children to play football.. Football has more money and stardom than cricket, if you play properly. I'm dreaming of my India play in world cup, not only play but win the title.. one day in very near future. 😊

[@DhruvMalikk]

❤️

[@RahulKarmakar]

We want india to be world-class

[@halfhuman6329]

❤️❤️

[@astronautthoi297]

🙏

[@sumansamanta321]

🇮🇳💙⚽✊

[@deependrashukla7449]

It's not too late we have started already

[@superpixelated7354]

Sad to see with such huge pool, we are unable to pick the best

[@harshk2460]

👏 👏

[@ishawrizz]

1950-65s, when were really something.

[@tannushree_chaur]

👍

[@vishnuvi8429]

I see how these folks are passionate when telling stories from past. Can you imagine Pakistani hockey team cheering for Indian football team when the whole crowd was hostile to India.

[@dons618]

Indian here...and im ashamed to say that without the movie Maidan, I still would be ignorant about India's golden football Era.

[@shiladityasanyal5920]

We had so much talent at that time if we just could hold that we would have been a full power in the footballing world right now. Unfortunately our nation could hold into that

[@deepakhem]

*GOI should invest money and should ask private players to invest money in Indian football* *The real world cup is football* *And India has got talent we can really become a competitive team*

[@SAFFRONINFERNO]

There is enough Money already in FOOTBALL If you are good you are paid well

[@IMPOSSIBLESTRUCTURE]

To all the teachers watching this video ......pls Don't take class at long break and short break and stop taking away drill class

[@kaifi1445]

i believe so 9:17

[@Mazamanhi]

Who is top eleven football player`s...( India vs 🥅 any one tesm..now start to foot ball game up🥅 🔘

[@nincry89]

Bring Vice to Kerala football scenes

[@akhilkrishnan8081]

I.M Vijayan😍

[@happy_biird]

We'll make it to the 2026 WC.

[@Tweetsoftheweek]

What about Vijayan ? Sathyan ? Anchery ? Pradeep

[@knowledgeiseverywhere1765]

Please support indian football and indian super league

[@alxra1_e909]

Shyam Thapa

[@Doodhwala181]

All Thanks goes to Nehru and GANDHI family (congress) who decided to not give importance to football...🤗

[@Monti429]

Country where football captain is being pushed before camera.

[@sst50]

Why India didn't play football

[@Aman-cc5ff]

Watch part 1

[@nilanjanpramanik3587]

This is the failure of indian football fraternity...don't blame cricket..

[@ajayhansda4605]

Aiff ko indian football team ko prepared krna caheye 2026 qualify k liye

[@anmolajmani7494]

hate the cricket industry..play and watch the football is mantra for sports industry india

[@kaushikchada]

2026 we want to see india in 48 team

[@ishawrizz]

There are better teams in asia, Africa, south american that deserve qualifying

[@ps1391]

@@ishawrizz So what..it all starts with belief..not cries

[@ishawrizz]

@@ps1391 just sayings facts nothing else, be real start to analyse our actual standings in world football sir.

[@zabsmongzar9502]

@@ishawrizz do you watch ISL?

[@ishawrizz]

@@zabsmongzar9502 sometimes

[@aajabbinmagosh5509]

11 Pakistani hockey players were only India supporters...where did hate come from?

[@m11nt]

China couldn't achieve success in football with all their money. So, it will be quite difficult for India.

[@fgh8okbbffuivcjo971]

Nothing is impossible

[@India_Uncensored]

China 🇨🇳-0 India 🇮🇳- 0 in Asia qualifiers. Give it time!

[@hewas_chewasky]

China doesnt have Football culture It wasn’t a colony so football wasn’t promoted

[@tusharsehara2135]

Even the Arabs have much more money and better infrastructure but the main requirement is spirit of the game ⚽🥅,even Brazil became world champions and they were considered 3rd world at that time .

[@PushpendraKumar-bq4pb]

More than money it requires passion dedication commitment and love for the game❤️. Look at African countries like Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria,Senegal, ivory coast... they have lower economy than India but still there football is way better than us in current time.

[@chitwandhuliya]

It’s good to know about history but we have a very poor world ranking and football in India needs needs serious infrastructure and skill reforms.

[@socio-economicnewsnetwork4740]

Most of the players were anglo indians and most of the Indians dont even consider them as Indians

[@mrabhiv]

And than they go outside of india and call them as indians.

[@socio-economicnewsnetwork4740]

@@mrabhiv nope they call themselves as mixed race or anglos

[@stxfdt1240]

@@socio-economicnewsnetwork4740Anglo lol....who

[@stxfdt1240]

@@socio-economicnewsnetwork4740 they were indians not mixed race....give proof they said that

[@stxfdt1240]

@@socio-economicnewsnetwork4740 PK,Chuni goswami was not Anglo lol......PK even won fifa order of merit....IFA shield won by bengalis.....Where are the majority Anglos lol.....Asian games also won majorly by non anglos......Are you conspiracy theorist

[@Curiosity403]

India ki dikkat he yahi hai ki koi sports ko serious nahi leta hai aur nahi hamari pyari government. Log sports sirf Government job k liye khelte hai (Sports Quota)

[@ManuThomas-qi7uq]

I dont understand still why does this media highlights Football means just Bengal where it had same roots in Kerala, Goa and Punjab which produced the best players of India ever had, it was just this worst politics and focusing on few made diminishing of Indian Football and at current we see the rise of Karnataka and tamil nadu, Kashmir and every Northeastern states having rapid pase where still AIFF is failing to recognise if Indian football needs to strengthen stop focusing on star players and try all means look into the leagues like ISL and I-league u will get the best players and train them and u will get gold out of it

[@SAFFRONINFERNO]

India should give citizenship and make use of IMPORTED TALENT to qualify to the WC

[@stxfdt1240]

Bengal did the best lol.....PK won order of merit from fifa.....and that's just him....do not even compare.

[@stxfdt1240]

Did they win IFA sheild....or shone at the Olympics similarly?

[@stxfdt1240]

Literally the best era was from 50s to 60s where there was 2 bengalis in itself in the most famous and great football trio.

[@stxfdt1240]

How did it have the same roots....It is insulting to make a statement like that....Mohunbagan and East Bengal were the 2 figureheads or face of indian football since the beginning with their achievments and the sheer magnitude of them....and even now to an extent also........Everyone wanted to play in them.....they(bengal) acheived everything from club to country at the highest levels....and that hasn't been topped ever since with so called diversification with other states....some things are only meant for some people only.......If that were not the case then we should have the same WCs as brazil and what not given our 1.4 billion population.

[@NotAGL]

3rd

[@vickievilla1487]

Then cricket came nd destroyed the football

[@anshulsharma312]

Nobody destroyed football it destroyed itself just like hockey

[@nilanjanpramanik3587]

@@anshulsharma312 we have a worldclass hockey team

[@anshulsharma312]

@@nilanjanpramanik3587 now we have but it steady declined after the introduction of astroturf in 70s i guess

[@SAFFRONINFERNO]

@@anshulsharma312 ASTROTURF usage was approved by ASIAN FOOLS while SOUTH AMERICA strongly fought and made similar step in FOOTBALL

[@anshulsharma312]

@@SAFFRONINFERNO that's such a dumb thing from Asian council or maybe they have given up against the pressure applied from Europe, Who knows.

[@traveldiaries2912]

They saying rahim like he is their friend.these idoits don't know he is rahim ji or sir

[@Like-23]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@weirdofreak]

Ban cricket in schools you see the result of nxt generation

[@theunnonfailures6607]

Then we used play football, not bootball.

[@Arjun-xr5kd]

Dear Vice, If you were going to make a series on INDIAN FOOTBALL then surely should have went on to look for football in India rather than feature just KOLKATA FOOTBALL! Where is Goan football? Northeast? Kerala? And the Santosh trophy with the record highest women attendance?

[@dibyendumondal3869]

Cause Kolkata is the birthplace of indian football 😎😎

[@nikhilkumar-sb1fh]

This documentary is about the rise of football in India through different passages, 70% of the Indian football history consists of Bengal/ Kolkata clubs so definitely they are gonna talk about Kolkata football.

[@mayurkanth6987]

Football has no future in india

[@lisamnelson9048]

Lol this video came out in 2022 world cup. These many years where have u been ? ✌ Better focus on Cricket!!!

[@joyjit9220]

Why are you here anyway?

[@amalkumar2775]

There are hundreds of videos on KZbin about Indian football. You should have done a better research before commenting here.

[@anshulsharma312]

Haha no bro we as a nation have to diversify new sporting Avenues will also build new employment opportunities.

[@savitar8002]

Cricket is a gentleman sport We should not encourage football in India because we have seen how football has caused rampage in the world. Indians should stay away from this kind of boring, hooligan sports.

[@nirmal3028]

Indian man must prove to be man to world, only football can prove it

[@darkwolf2275]

Cricket is played by beggers and na mards. Sale bheekari.

[@akashrockstar2964]

INDIA IS NOT GOING TO FIFA. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 India football logo 👎👎👎🤣🤣

[@surjayanroybarman6844]

The sun will shine on us again, i believe

[@north_indian_pajeet_rendian_mc]

football used to be dominated by mainly the Bengali players and clubs with a little touch from the northeast and southern part of India! The moment hindustani players were allowed to play football, Indian Football died!