India 's national football team ranked 149 out of 209 FIFA member nations . `` As India has just started to implement grassroots football it will take 10 years or more to get these players to the same level as in Japan , Korea , or Europe and South America . '' India used to be among the best in Asia at the sport until the 1970s . FIFA president Sepp Blatter describes Indian football as a ` ` ' giant '' Dutchman Jan Fischer signals himself as the nation 's first technical director .
India 's national football team ranked 149 out of 209 FIFA member nations . India used to be among the best in Asia at the sport until the 1970s . FIFA president Sepp Blatter describes Indian football as a ` ` ' giant '' Dutchman Jan Fischer signals himself as the nation 's first technical director .