Reportage
How to sell the ISL in 124 days
With two teams gone and no guaranteed rights fee, the clubs put every match on YouTube.
Football
Reportage
Jamshedpur FC: The club Tata built, and walked away from
Tata Steel spent Rs 321 crore and nine years building Indian football’s most credible club. Jamshedpur FC’s nine-year run ended on an unpaid invoice of Rs 55 lakh.
Reportage
Passported out
India spent 18 years turning away footballers who wanted to play for it. A proposal now with the Prime Minister’s Office would reopen the door, if New Delhi and FIFA can agree on what nationality means.
Reportage
What Genius Sports really wants from Indian football
Why Genius Sports, a NYSE-listed B2B sports data and technology firm, has bid Rs 2,129 crore for the Indian Super League—a competition it cannot legally monetise in India. The mystery is what exactly it’s buying.
Analysis
The World Cup India will not see, until it does
Nine weeks before kick-off, as the world readies itself for its grandest sporting ritual, India’s screens stay blank. Between what FIFA wants and what this market will pay, the gap has exposed how sharply the economics of sports broadcasting have changed.
Reportage
Indian football’s impossible restart
How the ISL is attempting to rebuild in 39 days what took a decade to construct