VIDEO – HT: Aizawl FC’s meteoric rise in Indian football has been a fairytale!

Football in Mizoram was going nowhere since the 1980s – even Aizawl FC, in contention as I-League champs this year was defunct after birth in 1984. Only a few like Shylo Malsawmtluanga and Jeje Lalpekhlua made it big through individual efforts.

Mizoram Football Association secretary Lalnghinlova Hmar speaks with HT correspondent Rahul Karmakar on the journey of football in one of India’s tiniest states.