The Northeast is humming ‘We are one’.
As the world braces for a soccer feast
from Samba land, the region, several thousand miles away from Brazil,
but with people as crazy for the ‘beautiful game’ as their South
American counterparts, is making its own plans to stay glued to the
television and be a ‘part of the action’ for most of the matches.
We say most because some matches kick-off
from 3.30 in the wee hours of the morning. But it is the World Cup,
arguably the biggest and most popular sporting extravaganza on terra
firma and it comes once in four years. Then there are the skills of
Lionel Messi or Neymar and company, who on their day can weave magic
soccer fans can’t afford to miss.
So, the Northeast, which has produced
teams such as Gauhati Town Club, Maharana AC, Shillong Lajong FC and
may see more brilliance from the John Abraham co-owned North East Union
FC later this year, is just getting started. Some are already attired in
the familiar yellow (Brazil) jerseys or the blue and white stripes of
rivals Argentina. Some might already be swinging to the beats of the
official FIFA World Cup 2014 song ‘We are one’, you never know.
The Telegraph caught up with John Abraham,
a die-hard soccer fan himself, while he was here and with a host of
other fans from across the Northeast who spoke about the event and their
aspirations
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