Rajyavardhan Rathore, who was recently appointed the Union Minister of Sports, wants Indian football to be revived back to its glory days when the country finished fourth at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
"We need to bring up Indian football and develop in a lot of other sports also," he said.
"A lot of spectators today might not know that we won gold medal in football in Asian Games and the captain of that team was from Bengal," he heaped praise on Chuni Goswami-led Asian Games triumph in 1962.
"We were once in the fourth position at the Olympics.