New Delhi: India chase an improbable dream when they take on a sturdy and tactically superior Ghana in their final group game of the Fifa U-17 World Cup here on Thursday. Qualification to the next round is a distant dream and perhaps, this will be the last time this sprightly bunch will take the field at the showpiece event, and on home soil. But what they could not deliver in results so far, they did convincingly with passion and spirit.
They have displayed guts, nerves of steel and above all, a game sense and fight that belies the fact that this is India’s first-ever participation in a World Cup finals. There have been errors, lapses and moments of complete disarray, but among those have blossomed future stars who shown talent and gumption in plenty.
