(03-26-2024, 12:26 AM)slcricfan1 Wrote: I see we beat Bhutan
We were ranked ~120 and 2nd in South Asia even without foreign players in early 2000s. It had taken a nose dive since then.
Tf seriously?? What happened? My dad said he used to play soccer and stuff all the time whne he was a kid but I read online that soccer isnt popular at all.
(03-27-2024, 06:23 AM)pj57 Wrote: SL are now ranked 207 in the world and 46 in Asia.
Soccer popularity has dropped because the team has not been doing well. There was lot of crowd support for the matches in this series.
soccer popularity went down cos guys like Manilal stole billions from FIFA money
The national team a decade ago didnt have any money to even buy jerseys and some of them were caught doing match fixing
FFSL was suspended for a long time as the 2 main fractions always went to courts against each other
FFSL is the 2nd richest sports body in SL.Now they have got down the dual citizens and suddha fellows to play for the national team which is a good thing
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(03-27-2024, 06:23 AM)pj57 Wrote: SL are now ranked 207 in the world and 46 in Asia.
Soccer popularity has dropped because the team has not been doing well. There was lot of crowd support for the matches in this series.
soccer popularity went down cos guys like Manilal stole billions from FIFA money
The national team a decade ago didnt have any money to even buy jerseys and some of them were caught doing match fixing
FFSL was suspended for a long time as the 2 main fractions always went to courts against each other
FFSL is the 2nd richest sports body in SL.Now they have got down the dual citizens and suddha fellows to play for the national team which is a good thing
(03-27-2024, 12:05 PM)Dilcey Wrote: soccer popularity went down cos guys like Manilal stole billions from FIFA money
The national team a decade ago didnt have any money to even buy jerseys and some of them were caught doing match fixing
FFSL was suspended for a long time as the 2 main fractions always went to courts against each other
FFSL is the 2nd richest sports body in SL.Now they have got down the dual citizens and suddha fellows to play for the national team which is a good thing
Why has this changed recently?
Two main factions have now got together to run the FFSL.