At the National Institute for Visually handicapped school grounds in Dehradun a joyous roar erupts, mixing with the sound of the ball, which has a bell inside it, that jingles away. This would have been an ordinary sight at most stadiums, except that these boys are completely or partially blind. They are also national football champions.
This success is not only a triumph for a sport overshadowed by cricket in India but also a victory of the human spirit, where a bunch of boys fought accident, disability and sometimes poverty to prove a point, not just to themselves but the world at large.
Read more of this in a report by Yeshika Budhwar in Times of India....
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