India need to create superstars like Virat Kohli in football: Tim Cahill

Australian football great Tim Cahill believes India needs to create superstars like Virat Kohli in football, a game which is followed quite passionately across the country. 

The 41-year-old, who is an ambassador of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy involved in organising the 2022 football World Cup in Qatar, spoke about the importance of football in India on the eve of the inauguration of the fourth completed stadium. 

“You look at the way cricket pretty much inspires the nation [India] by itself. Virat Kohli and [his] boys are superstars and now try and create those superstars within the ISL, with the teams, the games, the national team. To recreate that with football would be the ultimate dream for India because there is a massive passion for it,” - Cahill said.