Touch Line, India's first online football magazine

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By vizdom

Touchline - An Intrduction

Touchline is a non-profit e-magazine team that is looking to popularize football in India. Football has been given a step motherly treatment in the sub continent and we intend to change. The first issue came out on 2nd October. Second scheduled to nov 4th.For the first edition featuring N. Pradeep - the man who scored India's goal in the Nehru Cup finals victory over Syria.

As of now, they intend to publish a monthly football magazine and send it out via email to subscribing members. The contributors to the magazine are mainly from orkut, and it might well be a good poster in this very same community. This magazine is completely free, and the targeted audience is the everyday football from Indian sub continent. Which doesn't mean people outside the sub-continent can't enroll for the magazine.

They will be covering the Barclay Premier League extensively, and the magazine will also feature regular round up's of the National league in India and other popular leagues around the world.

They are also having a Fan Zone - a place where our readers send in their pictures, opinions, mails. These will be published along with interviews of a few select readers,

Please visit http://www.touchlineindia.com if you are interested in enrolling for this magazine. This is a magazine above club rivalries.

Touchline - The mission Statement

25 years before S. Venkatraghavan captained India in a major non-olympics tournament at the world stage, India made it to the finals of the Football World Cup, almost. The golden era of Indian football had began with a qualification to the finals of the greatest show on earth. FIFA had introduced a new rule that made it mandatory for players to wear shoes while playing. The men from the mystic land of the east were denied entry because they played barefoot!

Indian football never recovered from that unfortunate event. 57 years from now, crowds of thousands line up on the streets to celebrate a cricketing victory that hogs 4 pages of newspaper space for a whole month. India's Nehru Cup win in football gets a small mention in some grave location. I told a friend of mine that 30 years from now, we can make football more popular than cricket. He told me I was dreaming. Why don't we all dream the same dream.

The faceless footballer in this great country has endured playing barefoot, through pain, through broken feet, torn ligaments, bleeding toes and wobbly ankles and still put in that extra dyne of energy into his kick so that his country can win and earn some respect among the football superpowers.

We, at TouchLine India, hope to bring visibility to the beautiful game in India. Let us dream that some day, aspiring to become a footballer will not draw scornful stares from parents and it will not mean that an 8 year old has to practice with a makeshift ball made of stones wrapped in newspapers. Let us dream that the largest derby in the world will not be Real Madrid versus Barcelona or Man United versus Liverpool but East Bengal versus MohunBagan.

On behalf of TouchLine..

Comments

Lingo 4 years ago

Hey buddy, thank you for this article. Can u please change the link to the site from http://touchline.footballbeyond.com/register/ to httP//www.touchlineindia.com

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vizdom Hub Author 4 years ago

Done man..Thnks for comment..

Lingo 4 years ago

Dude, the link name is changed to http://touchlineindia.com but the hyper link is still the same.Can you change the hyperlink too.If i click on the link, i get an error.

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vizdom Hub Author 4 years ago

Sorry man...Check out now..

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