India’s under-19 men’s football team played and lost three successive games at the just-concluded qualifiers for the AFC Under-19 Championships.
In this episode of the 420 Grams, they look at the pipeline for the national team, examine the problems in the system despite the high levels of publicity and hype, and look ahead at what this might mean for the senior squad as they head in to the next round of qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup (Qatar 2022) and and the AFC Asian Cup (China 2023). India play Afghanistan and Oman over the next week.