Every time I watch a match and see one of those lads from Mizoram or Manipur gliding past defenders, I think of the Anjuna market on a Sunday—tourists haggling over beads, but the real treasures are the old jazz LPs some uncle brings from Shillong. The league talks a lot about “talent pipeline,” but I notice the numbers don’t lie: the academies in the Northeast have been producing the highest pass completion and dribble success rates per rupee spent for three seasons now. My shop’s barely running, but I still have a stack of wedding *kazar* cards waiting for the *susegad* afternoon rush, and I know that kind of quiet, unglamorous work is what builds a proper team. If we’re serious about fairness in football, we should be sending more scouts to Tura and Aizawl instead of printing another glossy brochure about “grassroots.
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