“Concerned About Safety Net”: Pullela Gopichand Makes Case For Protecting Future Of Indian Sportspersons

India’s badminton coach Pullela Gopichand revealed that people and parents interpreted his declaration on children’s participation in sports in a different way. Last week, Gopichand in an interview with the newspaper would have said that children cannot resume sport as their careers if their parents are not financially stable. This statement caused a net debate. Addressing Ani, the Indian badminton coach developed on the statement he had made earlier in the newspaper.

“I think that when you have a newspaper that writes it, it is generally that you speak to a journalist, that he understands it and writing, writing a chronicle and his publisher publish it, something else on the first page, something in the article due to space constraints and ultimately the reader. The whole context in place is very important.

In addition, the 51 -year -old said that he was ready to explain to everyone what he really meant if he had the opportunity to speak.

“Rather than entering the specific line, which does not ignore me because I think that today, we have this conversation because this declaration appeared in this way. I think it is important. I prefer the opportunity to make them understand what the real scenario is,” added Gopichand.

The former badminton player also revealed what made him a statement on the participation of children in sports.

“Year after year, I see players, I see worker players, parents who bring them, burning their resources, time. And then you realize that everyone does not do so. It is not their fault. It is the nature of sport. They do not get jobs. I do not receive a sure future. And they have a big dream. And the dream is in fact broken. In fact. did it.

“Today, when I see national champions, when I see Commonwealth medalists, when I see medalists from Asian games not having a job, and it starts to hurt that what is the future they have? But I know among the hundreds of people, we could do it. So where is the safety net? And that’s all that concerns me,” he added.

When asked if bureaucracy fails Indian sports, he highlighted a systemic defect, “because people come in the short term. Their thought is the next Olympic games. Their thought is short, short, short.

Gopichand reached the ultimate in his sport by winning the All England championship in 2001, then causing Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu to Olympic Glory knows what it takes to do it in Sport in India. Its unspected take now raises important questions about the sports ecosystem of India.

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