India will learn soccer from Brazil and Brazil will learn cricket from India
Soha Jabbar
Apr. 15, 2008

It is sports partnership between two countries. India excels in cricket and Brazil does the same in soccer.

Indian President Pratibha Patil visited this soccer-obsessed, Latin American country as part of her 13-day, three nation tour to Brazil, Mexico and Chile.

In Brazil, the slogan is ‘you help us in cricket and we help you in soccer.’

"BCCI will soon be sending a coach as Brazil wants the status of a cricket Test playing nation," Indian Ambassador to Brazil Hardeep Singh Puri said.

While a coach from India, which ranks number two in Test cricket in world, has been selected to train the Brazilians, search for a football coach for India was still on, he added.

"Football in this part of the world is highly professional and coaches charge a large amount. But something will be worked out shortly," Puri said.

India had signed a cultural agreement in 2006 with Brazil, which ranks Number 2 in soccer in FIFA rankings, under which the two countries would cooperate in promoting exchanges in the field of football and training of Indian players and coaches.

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