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FIFA- The perfect gateway drug to actually falling in love with Football

Hello everyone, I have decided to write a second blog after receiving words of encouragement from all of you after the first one. So, here is my take on FIFA (the video game series) on why is it so popular and how it is helping football to become popular in a country like India where cricket is considered less as a game and more as a religion. Please give it a read and let me know your opinions. Being born in the early 90's in India,like many others of that time, I was also born with a love for cricket in my genes. Football was barely on my radar when I was a child and I couldn't understand what the excitement was all about in the newspapers before the 2002 football world cup when India hadn't even qualified for it. Well now, not even a day goes by without reading numerous articles on  Real madrid and its title chances or the player transfer news or bragging to friends about the 12 UCL titles that we have in our kitty. So what changed? How did I , a kid dreaming to rep...