Fifa has already done its bit to help the national team of India, backed by a country with a population of 1.4 billion, qualify for the 2026 World Cup by increasing Asia’s automatic allocation from four to eight. Now there is growing pressure on New Delhi to make a change that would increase the chances of the men’s national team heading from south Asia to North America from slight to something more substantial: to allow overseas-born players of Indian heritage active in some of the biggest leagues of Europe to represent the Blue Tigers.
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