Why doesn't India participate in world football championships?
597938
They did but didn't get past the prelims
984034
forget bout this time.....India can never win the world cup.coz according to  me all other countries play cricket for the passion n for their survival.but here they just play for fun coz money they get in advertise.for a match they will get 50000 but for a ad they will get 500000...c the diff
635231
do they play football in india?
74676
India qualified for the 1950 FIFA World Cup after a number of teams withdrew from the tournament. However, they declined to participate after FIFA prohibited playing barefoot. \n\nIndia's application for the 1954 tournament was not accepted and they did not compete in a qualifier until the preliminary stages of the 1986 tournament.
1002163
Because they did not qualify for the World Cup
574173
Hey me and my friends are trying to figure out the same question. We have figured out till now is \n\n1. To teach and preach football to everybody by spreading the excitement that we get by watching matches.\n\n2. If possible get sponsors interested in the sport.\n\n3. The most important is to force the National football administrators to get a better coach.\n\n4. Get the youngsters to know and play football better by teaching whomsoever you can.\n\n         My friend its kinda tough but u know that its never easy. Also it gives a nice feeling that India had once reached the fifa world cup finals and then didnt qualify due to playing barefooted.
1004687
Many small countries cannot afford to take part in international sports.  And, if a country is small enough, it may not have all that many athletes at the world class level.
561507
The world cup football league doesn't exist.
60674
I don't think so, ghana in it's first participation need to get experiance of this tye of cup, than maybe in the futur world cups it get the chance to qualifyed into next level
1008930
INDIA is generally NOT INTERESTED in football as much as cricket, hockey... bit like the Americans who loves their brand of football, baseball, basketball.\n\nFurthermore INDIAN youths prefer to concentrate on their education to increase their job prospect and improve their lives. Sports don't pay well unless you're some kind of superstar sports person.\n\nThe very poor or not educated will have little access to playing sports which is a luxury they cannot afford. Also INDIAN government / state authorities do very little to promote football. India seldom participate even in ASIAN football tournaments. So India football standard is very low. You may have the talents but you must also provide opportunities and expert training to develop the potential talents. Unless INDIA begin to do this India will never ever be good enough for the World Cup.
1067127
It's an obvious but simple answer. The players aren't good enough. They don't compete to a very high standard in their domestic league and are out of their depth when it comes to playing in the World Cup.
1078151
They didn't classify in its group to go to world cup.
467820
There is no world cup in 2010
646383
The first official World Cup, The 1932 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles, did not plan to include football as part of the programme due to the low popularity of football in the United States. FIFA and the IOC also disagreed over the status of amateur players, and so football was dropped from the Games.[5] FIFA president Jules Rimet thus set about organizing the inaugural World Cup tournament to be held in Uruguay in 1930.
1147985
Ummm..........yes............very big continent and it is the "World" Cup after all - also the standard in Asia is improving all the time.  FIFA would not be able to encourage Asian countries to invest in the sport if they limited places to them - the total number of football players in Asia @ 34,708,100 is not far short of those playing in Europe (35,783,000) so the interest is  just as passionate there - Asian fans love football just as much as us Europeans so why should they not have the same opportunities to see their team qualify.
1162010
India qualified, but refused to play because FIFA would not let them play in bare feet.\n\nAlso, Turkey and Scotland qualified but refused, as did France, which didn't want to travel that far.
863307
if the indian team can reach the finals of the world cup in south africa then why cant they beat south africa