Kuala Lumpur & Beijing: What a Week!
I’m currently mid-flight on my way home to Pune from Delhi – the final leg of a weeklong trip East to Malaysia and China. While I am thoroughly exhausted from 6 days of meetings, speaking engagements, red-eye flights and yesterday’s strenuous trek up a part of the Great Wall of China, somehow I still feel happy and alive at this moment. Maybe it’s because I’m still reeling from the adventure of travelling to two new countries or maybe it’s because this trip created new opportunities for me to have some influence on the growth of football in Asia or maybe it’s because I’m still living my 15 minutes of fame when I was awarded the MVP trophy during the conference football tournament in Beijing. Whatever it may be, I am grateful that I had the opportunity to take this trip. In Kuala Lumpur, I was part of a group of individuals representing I-League and Indian Super League clubs sitting down to discuss the future roadmap of Indian football with members of th...