Former French skilled footballer of Indo-Mauritian descent Vikash Dharosoo, who performed as a midfielder. Dhorasoo interacted with college students of TSWREIS and TTWREIS in Gachibowli’s Decathlon retailer.
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The first flooring of the Decathlon retailer at Gachibowli in Hyderabad is abuzz on a balmy afternoon. Around 45 college students of Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TSWREIS) and Telangana Tribal Welfare Residential Educational Institutions (TTWREIS) work together and have a sport with Vikash Dhorasoo, as a part of the football improvement program.
The college students had been all smiles to meet the player. With Alliance Francaise Hyderabad (AFH) piloting the tour, Vikash is on his first go to to south India together with Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Goa and Visakhapatnam. The former French football player of Indo-Mauritian descent has been to India seven occasions however not to South India, the land of his ancestors. His forefathers who hailed from Vizianagaram, moved to Mauritius in 1890 to work in the sugar cane fields. In 1970, his father moved to France. “They intermarried within the Telugu community for eight generations,” says Vikash, who was knowledgeable footballer for 15 years with his profession highpoint being the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Graphic novel J’Perds Pas La Boule
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“We planned the trip to enable him to go to the Andhra region and also plan a program for him to see the present football situation in India and what can be done to uplift it,” says Samuel Berthet, director AFH.
On the sidelines of the occasion, Vikash says he’s glad to be in Hyderabad however factors out that his goal is to inspire the young and present that “someone of Indian origin can become a professional footballer and make it to the top.”
While Vikash tries to instil confidence, he clarifies that he’s not right here to “sell dreams” as a result of, “Only very few can make it to the professional level. I feel it is still important to keep playing the game as it not only gives one a goal in life but also strengthens the will to carry on with dreams and lead a disciplined life.”
Vikash Dhorasoo
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Vikash remembers visiting New Delhi in 2009 with East Bengal midfielder Renedy Singh for an initiative known as Consortium for Street Children, geared toward recognizing expertise. The want to discover expertise at the grassroot stage continues as he performs and interacts with youngsters of deprived backgrounds in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. He believes football has the emancipating energy to unfold the message of equality.
Also a film actor and producer ( Le Tres Tres Grand Enterprise), Vikash based the Tatane motion ( Tatane which means shoe in French) in 2011 to assist soccer carry pleasure and create a bond amongst folks in underprivileged neighbourhoods. Now he works as a football guide for the French sports activities channel L’Equipe. “I am vocal in defending football players but I also raise my voice against all kinds of discrimination, racism and homophobia,” says Vikash, who contested the municipal elections in 2020 in Paris.
The graphic novel, J’Perds Pas La Boule in French, is devoted to his life, his sports activities trajectory and the Telugu background of his household.
He needs for India to have an incredible football group, that Indians play in the greatest championships and for the World Cup to beheld in India.
