he success of Aizawl FC in the I-League this season has become a symbol of what football means to the north-east of India and what the north-east means for Indian football.
Three in every ten professional Indian footballers in I-League Division 1 come from the north-east - that collection of eight states, which happen to be the most ethnically-distinct, culturally-alienated, economically-neglected and politically-troubled from the national mainstream, and also home ...
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