{"id":132396,"date":"2018-03-03T18:40:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T13:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=132396"},"modified":"2018-03-03T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T13:38:03","slug":"globalise-sports-says-kohli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/globalise-sports-says-kohli\/","title":{"rendered":"Globalise sports says Kohli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is nothing like globalising the sport says Indian skipper Virat Kohli.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the kind of visibility on television and the kind of access that people have, it&#8217;s creating awareness. People know Indian players.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People even watched all those who played at the Under-17 World Cup. It&#8217;s all about visibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unless you get to show your talent, on television screens, it&#8217;s very difficult for people to start liking something,&#8221; said Kohli.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aa-Cover-iss492mpkj8bbr8fg1dsq0e9a1-20171115061729.Medi_.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-132397\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aa-Cover-iss492mpkj8bbr8fg1dsq0e9a1-20171115061729.Medi_.jpeg\" alt=\"Globalise sports says Kohli\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aa-Cover-iss492mpkj8bbr8fg1dsq0e9a1-20171115061729.Medi_.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aa-Cover-iss492mpkj8bbr8fg1dsq0e9a1-20171115061729.Medi_-500x280.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aa-Cover-iss492mpkj8bbr8fg1dsq0e9a1-20171115061729.Medi_-768x430.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It happened to me as well. If our Under-19 World Cup wasn&#8217;t televised, maybe I wouldn&#8217;t have been sitting here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our matches were televised and we got our chance to portray our talent. Then people started talking about us. The kind of visibility that the league has will play a major role,&#8221; added Kohli.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Indian cricket team skipper also discussed the team\u2019s warm-up sessions where they play football. Asked how the team members enjoy it, Kohli said, \u201cWe love it. There is a motivation attached to football. If you ask me to run 20 laps around the field, I would get bored after a while. But if you ask me to play a football match after a training session, I would keep running after that ball because I have a chance to do something with it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s a beautiful sport; everyone in the team likes it, and we love to show off as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing like globalising the sport says Indian skipper Virat Kohli. With the kind of visibility on television and the kind of access that people have, it&#8217;s creating awareness. People know Indian players. People even watched all those who played at the Under-17 World Cup. It&#8217;s all about visibility. Unless you get to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[48333,67723,26572,46011,52731,67721,67722,1688],"class_list":["post-132396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-football","tag-globalise-sports-says-kohli","tag-indian-players","tag-indian-skipper","tag-television-screens","tag-under-17-world-cup","tag-under-19-world-cup","tag-virat-kohli"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Kohli-presser_opt.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}