In less than two days, the Indian Super League will become a reality, when Atletico de Kolkata plays hosts to Mumbai City FC at the 120,000-capacity Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata. On the face of it, the eight-team league has an underlying object of raising the standard of football in India by nurturing a vast pool of young talent, which has shunned the game that doesn’t pay them as professionals. The underlying realities, however, could be different as there are more vested interests than those, which are immediately evident. Elsewhere in the world, even in supposedly poor African nations, football is played for national pride and talking about Europe and South America