Live India, Love Football

I have been travelling from India to the United States for the past 10 years and typically the primary objective of each trip is to spend time with family and share the Indian sports story with US based sports organizations.   While my schedule during these trips is always packed full of countless meetings and mini-excursions, somehow each sojourn back to the country of my childhood provides me with a re-charge fuelled by the knowledge that I am uniquely positioned to connect the East and West through sport and the constant validation that I made the right decision to move to India nearly 10 years ago. This last trip was extraordinary. Personally, I was able to bask in the warmth of family love and the California sun over a few days spent in the majestic mountains, tranquil vineyards and the clear-blue ocean all located within a 2 hour drive of my Huntington Beach, California home.   There is nothing more special than celebrating life with loved ones and, even though I li...

In February 2018, our team organized The Football Movement conference in coordination with the Premier League and UK Department of International Trade.   And while all of us involved with putting the conference together were looking forward to a few days of knowledge sharing, networking and partnership discussions, our family and friends were mainly excited about the fact that Bollywood Superstar and Premier League Ambassador, Ranveer Singh, was planning to attend a part of the event.   My wife was definitely one of those excited individuals and she nearly re-scheduled an important function so that she could drive to Mumbai just to catch a glimpse or possibly even take a cheap selfie with one of India’s most talented and irreverent actors. In the end, she chose professional responsibilities over celebrity stalking and was extremely jealous when I sent her this picture just seconds after it was clicked: Now fast forward almost 1 year. It's February 2019...