06-28-2006, 12:36 AM
Football
Sir: In his article âPehlay aapâ (Daily Times, June 19) Irfan Husain theorises that Pakistanis do not excel at football because our legs are too skinny. However, these same legs seem to perform exceptionally well at field hockey. This sport requires as much running and legwork as does football. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> The reason that our football team isnât as good as our hockey team is simply because football didnât catch on to the extent that hockey and cricket did in Pakistan. We could rectify this by improving the support to our football team and making an effort to better coach, prepare and train our football players.
KHALID AHMED
Canada
Sir: In his article âPehlay aapâ (Daily Times, June 19) Irfan Husain theorises that Pakistanis do not excel at football because our legs are too skinny. However, these same legs seem to perform exceptionally well at field hockey. This sport requires as much running and legwork as does football. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> The reason that our football team isnât as good as our hockey team is simply because football didnât catch on to the extent that hockey and cricket did in Pakistan. We could rectify this by improving the support to our football team and making an effort to better coach, prepare and train our football players.KHALID AHMED
Canada