when nepal participates fifa world cup? ................can anybody say?

what a joking question man......................:(

when Nepal participates in fifa world cup..... I will be backing them all the way to the finals
..... but until then, I have better things to do unlike you.. ;) jk

I think Nepal has been participating in worldcup. The only thing is Nepalese team has not gone to the next round of qualification. Well a day will come when Nepal will be in an easiest group and will be qualified for World Cup Final. It might be the 2010 world cup final in South Africa, who knows.

All the best Nepalese Team.

lets forget about World cup.Shall we.
Focus on wining SAF Cup first!!
then we can think about anything else

what about bringing relegated italian players to nepal. :)

bidhan40 n bidhan408 now what bidhan420??hahahah
dude...Even if italians beg to join nepalese team.I don't want them ke .:)

hamile ta garna sakenau...aba timi haru ko palo!

bidhan wants to make nepal another italy.........derai derai make me laugh. hahahaha
Nepal becoming Naples.!!!

Airgrave dude also make me derai derai laugh. hahahaha

Nepal in the FIFA world cup..............3 trillion zillion years from now on. Can you live that long?

Participate ta jahile garcha ni bro. Qualifying mai Korea sanga 20 gol khancha ke garne...... he he.. tyo pani half time aghadi...

Harek char barsa ma ramro 'Anubhav' liyera farkanchan nepali haru....

Cannot real blame nepalese team alone.There are other factors too.
one of the main being .we just don't have world class talents..hahahha:)

aba ma nabhai kehi hola jasto chaina k nepali team ma. uthnai paryo aaba ta.

This was my article and some comments (below).
Here they are for what they are worth.

Enjoy and please feel free to disagree,

oohi
ashu

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How we can make it to the World Cup
ANFA must recast it role to invest on three critical priorities

From The Nepali Times Issue #304 (30 June 06 - 06 July 06)

- http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue/304/StrictlyBusiness/12078

By Ashutosh Tiwari

An article in the latest issue of Himal Khabarpatrika asks: If the war-torn African nation Angola could be a contender in this year’s World Cup soccer tournament in Germany, why not Nepal?

But what it neglects to mention is how Angola became a contender in the first place. Angolan national football squad members have been playing professionally for clubs in countries such as Kuwait, Spain and the UK. Last year, Angola gathered their talented but internationally scattered players, and fielded a team which played successfully in the qualifying matches. Indeed, to any narrative about their World Cup debut, Angola’s war-driven political history serves only as a poignant backdrop. It’s the individually skilled players with international exposure who have provided the dazzle to Team Angola.

How can Nepal too aim to produce a team for a World Cup debut? For answers, it’s worth suggesting that All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) recast it role to invest resources on three critical priorities.

Hunt for talents: If you visit the ANFA’s ill-updated web site, it’s clear that the organization’s focus is not really on promoting football. There are no photos of players or matches. Nor are there web links to the sites related to the present World Cup. Instead, ANFA’s emphases are on spending years on erecting half-finished buildings (hostels, office complexes, etc) and sustaining its own committee-swollen bureaucracy.

That leaves room open for any Nepali football fan to worry that the deeper ANFA sinks into the business of creating infrastructure itself – instead of having it completed within deadlines by third parties– it’s going to find it hard to concentrate on its number one priority: Identifying young football talents at grassroots matches all over Nepal. In this context, it helps if ANFA officials think of themselves as talent scouts—and not bureaucrats wasting time on procurement issues and internal quarrels.

Market the talents: To cater to the rising global demand for top football talents, ANFA can adopt a two-pronged strategy: Domestically, it can raise the extent of its partnerships with corporate houses, event management firms, municipalities, youth clubs and schools. Doing so will help it increase the number of local, regional and national tournaments. In this, it should build up on the success of some Nepali clubs that are now being professionally managed and whose players are actually starting to make money from playing football.

Internationally, it’s time to develop and deepen relations with Asian, African and European clubs, no matter how daunting such tasks look at the present. Unless our sports leaders see that the road to mastering World Cup-calibre confidence starts from playing with, for and against international clubs and coaches in and out of Nepal, it’ll be difficult for our players to gain the physical, technical, tactical and psychological strengths that the game demands in the global arena. After all, scoring goals only at the Dashrat Stadium – sans international exposure — will continue to consign our players to the dustbin of global mediocrity.

Lead the talents: ANFA’s core business of promoting football has many interlocking elements. Putting politics and quarrels aside, it needs to start providing credible public leadership on matters related to football. It can do that by reordering its priorities, reaching out to partners, getting the right people on board (instead of old sportsmen who know little about working effectively with differently-skilled professionals), and completing activities one by one.

Doing so consistently well for a number of years will help take Nepal closer to the goal of playing and winning qualifying matches in 2014 and 2018 before, who knows, bringing home the World Cup trophy in 2022—100 years after this beautiful game was first played in this country.

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This was a published comment:

Ashutosh Tiwari obviously doesn’t know anything about what ANFA is doing and definitely did no research before writing his Strictly Business column (‘How we can make it to the World Cup’, #304).

ANFA needs to build the infrastructure he so easily condemns so that it can find the right kind of talent. Building academies all over the country gives more grassroots exposure to football, which is what ANFA has been trying to do. Mr Tiwari dreams that we could qualify for the World Cup in 2014 or 2022.

If it was printed in the ‘Under my Hat’ section, that wish would have been more appropriate. Nepalis are still physically inferior to the nations that make it to the World Cup. Look at the number of Africans playing in the national league here. They aren’t good enough to play even in India and they are stars here. What does that tell us about our players? Development of football is not an overnight thing and the activities that you list, ANFA is already doing it.

Look at the development and exposure of football in the last few years and you might begin to appreciate ANFA’s work. Mr Tiwari should stop criticising something just because it is an easy target. Still a fan of the paper.

Suvash Gurung, email

- http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue/305/Letters/12114

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Here is All Nepal Football Association's Web site

- http://www.anfanepal.com/index.php

This is a letter from a friend who is active in sports management in Nepal.

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Dear Ashu,

Sports is big business and the Olympics and Fifa are huge monopolies susceptible to inefficiencies and corruption. ANFA today is run by Ganesh thapa who definitely would share your views about qualifying for the WC. The problem is he would never try to make ANFA a professional organization.

Mr.Ganesh Thapa would never get the best sports minds in the association. He would make sure that there is no challenge to his post as long as possible.ANFA is a one man show which does not allow it to be broad based. This is critical for the talent hunt. The football academy is controlled by anfa(Ganesh Thapa) .

The selection process would be fully controlled by him which limits the width of talent.Cronyism and nepotism is rampant. Unless football is run a by a team including the government, private sector and anfa qualifying for the wc will just be a dream.

This is another comment from a friend -- who also follows Nepali sports and is a great conversationalist when it comes to discussing the world of sports.

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Hi Ashu,

You could also consider the following:

System: Systems around football is essential, particularly at the grassroots. These could be community-, government-(local and federal) and private sector-sponsored.

The example of the San Miguel-sponsored league is exemplary. For the first time ever, our clubs are becoming professionalized and players are actually making some money playing football. Leagues, open tournaments should be replicated in other parts of the country.

Academies: Taking a leaf from the Australian cricket, or the combines for American football in the US, the academy system is crucial where the basic skills are imparted to the players. Football in the schools is equally important. In the case of the US, all top-notch NBA players come from the NCAA. Same is the case for hockey, American football and baseball.

Investment choice: We need to make the hard choice in terms of where our scarce resources should be invested: a sport like cricket, which is played by 8 or so nations or football, which is played everywhere. The choice is obvious.

Talent hunt: It’s important to look in the right places. You need a real killer instinct, physique, and stamina of a horse to last and do well at the international level. So look in the rugged hills, mid-hills and far west for people with these profiles. Perhaps, this could be a good way to rope in the aberrant rebels: they certainly have the instincts, and the stamina!

Exposure: Teams should be sent to other countries regularly, and foreign players should be recruited to play in the domestic tournaments. And where opportunity presents our players should play for foreign clubs.

Leadership: Need to have the real leadership governing the football in Nepal. In fact, old players should do well provided they have the right vision. Beckenbauer and Klinsmann are living example of this in Germany. I feel 2022 bit is a little too optimistic. I would say 2034, 2-3 decades from now.

nepal could not be a better continent to qualify for football world cup. Asia is the weakest of the lot. so it should be relatively easier to qualfy than from other continent.

more than anything else we have habit of letting ourself down. Just take an instance of Cricket. ICC were all ready to make an international stadium in pokhara. but because of our internal politics it shifted to ohter country.

i would like government to spend less money on weapon and more money on sports.not only in football but sports in general.if we want to take any country for example we should take australia for a benchmark. australia probably are the best sporting nation desbite having population less than 2 billion. australian secret is they identify the talent at very young age and provide it with best possible facility.

all i am saying is provide enough facilty in grassroot so that you get more kids playing sports. the more kids play the better chance we have to get a good quality players.