Opération Cricket contre Futebol

Où ça mène les accords culturels quand même... A quand le beach-cricket sur Copacabana?

clipped from www.thehindu.com India will soon send a cricket coach to Brazil, although its own attempts to find a soccer trainer from that country had not borne results yet. “We haven’t found a football coach for India yet, but the Board of Control for Cricket in India has agreed to send a coach to train youngsters here,” India’s Ambassador to Brazil Hardeep Singh Puri told journalists accompanying President Pratibha Patil here. India and Brazil signed an agreement in 2006 on cooperation in sports. Brazil, which wants the status of a cricket playing nation, became a member of the International Cricket Council in 2002. Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi, who is president of the India Football Federation, has been pushing for seeking professional and highly qualified football trainers from Brazil. “Football in this part of the world is highly professional and coaches here charge a lot. But something will be worked out shortly. In the meantime, the BCCI has agreed to send a coach,” said Mr. Puri.