The picture below is of the Indian football team playing the 1948 London Olympics.
- Azad India's football team did not have enough money to buy shoes.
- Some players wore socks and others played barefoot.
- This was the time when Prime Minister Nehru's family went to Paris to dry clothes.

- India equalized France 1–1 in the first match. India lost by a goal in the last minute.
- Standing Ovation was given by the audience to the Indian players for a great game.
After this, the team qualified for FIFA World Cup Football in Brazil in 1950.
- But the team was refused to send at the last minute.
- The country was told that FIFA has banned playing barefoot football.
- The organizers were told that India is a poor country, we do not have the money to come there.
- FIFA said that they want a talented team like India to come to the World Cup.
- He announced the cost of travel and stay of all Indian players.
- But Nehru's government did not send the team. (The association was then under government)
- The morale of the team preparing for the World Cup is badly broken.
Since then, India has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup.
- Even then, the football team players were not given shoes.
At that time, Captain Shailendranath Manna of the Indian team was one of the top-10 captains of the world.
A few years later, he told the story of this hoax with the Indian football team.
Today, 3 out of 7 main football stadiums in India are named after Chachaji Nehru.
- A stadium is named after Chachaji's daughter Indira Gandhi.
When the FIFA Under-17 World Cup was held in India, foreign players understood that Jawaharlal Nehru will probably be India's greatest footballer.
Today, after 70 years no one knows the real greatest footballer of the country, Shailendranath Manna. Sad