A moment of pride, yet no applause !!! Let us give them a standing ovation!!!!!

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  1. Shanvy

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    We are in the world where when sachin sneezes it makes to headlines. when dhoni takes off to meet his wife in newyork it takes around 15 minutes of prime time slot.

    Well what am i cribbing about.. the state of sports, the state of railroading the under priviledged, who do not have great god fathers..
    Talking about a group of girls who have silently made india proud lifting the donosti cup in spain. a group of abused harassed girls from the tribal area of jharkand going all the way to spain and lifting the cup. how many of you did read this news.

    to know more about them..
    The best memories of the 2013 Donosti Cup in pictures

    Yuwa-India to know more about the ngo.

    http://www.thehardtackle.com/2013/from-jharkhand-to-bernabeu-the-heroic-tale-of-yuwa-girls/

    and more about indian women football..
    The Lakshya Series: Women's Football - Goal.com


    The women football team without any professional league, big backing has achieved something which our men's league is not able to..and here there has not been much mention other than a few last page corner bits.

    three cheers to these girls.
     
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    Excellent Shanthi. I like it....
     
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    Thanks for sharing it.. Congrats to women's team..
     
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    wow
    great info!
    a great news to read on the wake of morning
    thank you so much..
     
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    Let us applaud our girls - The least we can do!

    These girls have made us so proud.......Let us share as much as we can and appreciate them.I am almost in tears reading the way they were humiliated.Wake up you @@####!.If you continue to rule India and ruin everything , India can never come up.Let us start appreciating the deserving ones.Sports is such a mess in India.With so much population , we still fail to impress the world.

    Few days back, as a billion plus India slept, a handful of tribal girls proudly held aloft a trophy they won in their maiden entry in a football tournament in far-flung Spain.

    It was the night of July 13. Hundreds of fire crackers lit the skies as the girls screamed Vande Mataram – their battle cry – for being placed third in the Gasteiz Cup, the world’s best testing ground for teenager football in Victoria Gastiez, also popular as Europe’s Green Capital.

    They were the same girls who were slapped, kicked and made to sweep floors by arrogant bureaucrats in Jharkhand when the girls asked for birth certificates, a necessity to apply for passports.

    But they eventually managed their passports, thanks to a strapping American, Franz Gastler, who pushed the cases of the girls with mandarins of the Ministry of External Affairs in the Indian Capital.

    He was a lone ranger in his efforts.

    The girls were lovingly titled the Supergoats by the organizers in Spain the moment they saw the girls playing barefoot in practice matches on arrival.
    Why?

    The girls had limited football gear and could not take the risk of tampering it before the tournament. They were overawed by international teams in the first tournament, the Donosti Cup, but came to their own in the second tournament.

    Offering a consolation prize for the third team – winner of a match between losing semi-finalists – was a mere formality for the organizers.

    But for the girls, it was a giant leap into global soccer from their impoverished Rukka village near Ranchi, considered one of the world’s epicenters of child marriage and human trafficking.

    As soon as the announcement was made for the prize distribution ceremony, the girls rushed into their dressing room and returned, some barefoot, wearing red-bordered white saris, their traditional festive dress. Many had their plastic flowers in their hairs.

    And when they huddled together after the mandatory photo session, some wept inconsolably because they had almost given up their hopes to participate in this tournament.

    “They were over the moon. It was their night,” said Gastler of the girls, who subsist on less than a dollar a day.

    For a country low on soccer, this was - arguably - good news for the mandarins of the game. But no one cared. All India Football Federation (AIFF) president Praful Patel was not aware of the girls’ superlative achievement, nor was the country’s new sports minister Jitendra Singh.

    “We could not sleep that night (July 13),” says Rinky Kumari, 13, captain, Supergoats. Once she bunked her school helped her mother do household chores. Today, thanks to football, everyone knows her name in the village.

    She says she remembered the days she was slapped and sweep floors when she went to the Panchayat Office get birth certificates for her passport.

    “That is the pain of being a tribal girl in India. I do not remember the slap, I remember the Cup,” says Rinky.

    For her, and her teammates, it means a lot.

    I got the above from FB..

    Here is an official news on the same:

    Spain-bound Jharkhand footballers slapped, abused for seeking birth certificates - Hindustan Times
     
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    Re: Let us applaud our girls - The least we can do!

    Oh..oh..I missed it Shan...I would request the Mods to merge these two threads...
     
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    Shan, Haven't they made us proud and made us look tall?The team did not have proper shoes and had only one pair of shoe to play in the ground.What does it prove?Give chance to the deserving ones.

    What kind of sick b!!@@@@@S can slap these cute children?For gods sake, they are small children and you slap them, make them sweep the floor and kick them for a birth certificate??What kind of breed are you?Who gave such rights and in what way are you better?Sickos...WHat if these girls got discouraged ?We would have lost the lovely moment and the cup.

    Hats off to the American guy who took the initiative to bring out these girls.Just because he is an American , he was spared by our guys.And our sport minister and football federation head did not know about this.Incredible India!


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    Gastler had this to say upon their return, “The odds were piled up against them. First, they had to play on an astroturf field — something they had never done before; second, the rival teams were healthier and stronger; and third, my girls had never played beyond the borders of their native villages unlike their opponents. Despite all this, they did just great”. According to team coaches their best performers were strikers Lakashmi, Punam and Shivani, midfielders Manisha and Rinki and defenders Sunita and Sushma.
     
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    we talk about upliftment, but there are lot of wonderful girls out there in the tribal areas, who need that one push.

    remember when chak de india was released, lot of jharkhand girls got hockey sticks..most of them were used to playing with just the stick made out of trees.

    we take so much time talking about betting, rigging, and bcci. but they don't have even a single minute to spare for such achievement.the cricket selectors get 10lakhs for selecting the winning team. so what do the winner gets..

    these kids team are ranked better than our man. yes it is the men who get the endorsements, the money. if only they were trained better.

    remember pt usha crying about how she was treated recently. we have a very very step motherly view of sports other than cricket.and who said gender discrimination was not there.

    we stay in the period were a website posts a picture of the chinese army copied of the website as indian army and say sorry stating that all ne look like them only..

    we are pathetic...and now the federation will hoist a ceremony and take the credit and give each of these girl a mere 25k..and they do not have the stalwarts to support or fight for them..

    shame and more shame...
     
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