FIFA World Cup: For India, qualification is still just a distant dream
- As the FIFA World Cup 2026 reached its final week, Gourav Roy, an Indian software engineer living in San Francisco, drove more than 9,650 kilometres (6,000 miles) across the United States to attend both the semifinals and the final.
- For Roy, it was the next best thing to what he had grown up dreaming of: seeing India play in the World Cup.
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- As the FIFA World Cup 2026 reached its final week, Gourav Roy, an Indian software engineer living in San Francisco, drove more than 9,650 kilometres (6,000 miles) across the United States to attend both the semifinals and the final.
- For Roy, it was the next best thing to what he had grown up dreaming of: seeing India play in the World Cup.
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Sources: Al Jazeera