{"id":6901,"date":"2014-06-13T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/prime-minister-launches-football-stamp\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T22:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:58:43","slug":"prime-minister-launches-football-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/prime-minister-launches-football-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"PRIME MINISTER LAUNCHES FOOTBALL STAMP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nAIFF President Mr. Praful Patel <\/b>with <\/b>Prime
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\nThe Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi on Thursday (June 12, 2014) released FootballBallFever, a postage stamp to commemorate the kick-off of the FIFA World Cup at the 7 Race Course Road, New Delhi.<\/div>\n
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\nMr. Praful Patel, the President of All India Football Federation who was present in the Function along with a host of former Footballers including Mr. Chuni Goswami, Mr. Subrata Bhattacharya and the present Indian National Team Captain Mr. Sunil Chhetri amongst others, stressed on the importance of taking Football to the \u201cmasses of the Country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFootball is the most popular sport of the World and is played among 209 Countries unlike Cricket. The popularity of the sport knows no bounds,\u201d he told www.the-aiff.com.<\/p><\/div>\n

\n<\/a>\u201cAll India Football Federation is looking forward to hosting the 2017 U-17 FIFA World Cup which would be a game changer in the Country and will also help galvanise the face of Indian Football among the masses and youth of the Country,\u201d he added.<\/div>\n
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\nMeanwhile, Mr. Modi also maintained that \u201cFootball is gaining space\u201d in the Country.\u201cThis is history. India is making preparations for hosting the 2017 U-17 Football World Cup in 2017. Football is gaining space in our Country’s sports. We need to push it more,\u201d he was quoted as saying. Besides, Olympic Medallists Mr. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Mr. Sushil Kumar and Ms. Karnam Malleswari also graced the occasion.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AIFF President Mr. Praful Patel with Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. Photo: PTI The Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi on Thursday (June 12, 2014) released FootballBallFever, a postage stamp to commemorate the kick-off of the FIFA World Cup at the 7 Race Course Road, New Delhi. Mr. Praful Patel, the President of All India Football Federation who was present in the Function along with a host of former Footballers including Mr. Chuni Goswami, Mr. Subrata Bhattacharya and the present Indian National Team Captain Mr. Sunil Chhetri amongst others, stressed on the importance of taking Football to the \u201cmasses of the Country.\u201d \u201cFootball <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[571,169,166,1879],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","tag-aiff","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-update","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71913,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions\/71913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}