Deadline Day

The 31st of august has started and for football fans it is indeed a very important day. This is the last day for transfer of players between Football clubs around Europe and America. This deadline is set by the FIFA and its current president is Sepp Blatter. The second biggest body in the footballing world is UEFA currently lead by Micheal Platini, a french football legend. Football definitely is the biggest sport the world follows and takes part in. The last 5 years in Pakistan has been very essential considering the change of perception towards football. The decline in the national cricket team and broadcasting through Indian owned sports channel, the domestic English football (English Premier League) and the European competitions has caught the eyes of majority especially the youth. With me its different. I have been following football since i was 10 because Fifa was my favourite game of all time and it still is. Fans here now are passionate about football as much they are in England and rest of the Europe. Manchester United has the most number of fans all over the world. It is currently the biggest football club in the world. Football can not be ignored today. The billionaires around the world find it very interesting including the Sheikhs of Abu Dhabi who recently bought Manchester City to give competition to Manchester United. After the capture of the club in 2009 they invested heavily in the squad, more than a billion dollars to bring players and improve the management of the club. It all payed off last season (2011-12) when they won the English Premier League under the noses of Manchester United. The owner of a West London Club, Chelsea, Roman Abrahimovic is a Russian Billionaire. PSG (Paris Saint Germain), a football club in Paris was bought by Qatari business tycoons last year. The commercialization and investment of massive money has created more fans but also is destroying some parts of football. The players seems to have no loyalty. They play for money mostly. The club the legacy is no longer important to them. Younger players are given less chance and a huge amount of talent gets wasted when you do not have proper trainers for guidance and development. My love for football is always going to stay young no matter what. For me football is the best thing that has happened to to Sport history. You put all the sports on one side and Football on another, the Football side is always going to be much heavier.