There's hardly any difference between a 125th ranked country and a 168th country in terms of skills.The more bottom you go, the less difference is there
After the draw, the Indian football association AIFF decided against going to the World Cup, citing travel costs (although FIFA had agreed to bear a major part of the travel expenses),[6] lack of practice time, team selection issues and valuing the Olympics over the FIFA World cup.[7]
Although FIFA had imposed a rule banning barefoot play following the 1948 Olympics[8][9] where India had played barefoot, the then Indian captain Shailen Manna claims that this was just a story to cover up the real reasons for the AIFF's decision.[6]
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