Reasons to Watch Maidaan

1. Indian Football Team's Golden Age: 4th Place Team in 1956 Olympics (Olympic was considered more important than FIFA World Cup in 1950s), Won 2 Asian Games Gold (1951, 1962), Qualified for 4 consecutive Olympics (1948-1960), India had qualified for FIFA World Cup in 1950 (did not take part, as Olympic was considered as important during that time)

2. India achieved their highest World Football Ranking Elo Rating: 31 (Current Ranking is 121)

3. Brazil of Asia: FIFA President was impressed by level and style of play, hence he gave this nickname for the team during 1960 Olympics

4. Classic 4-2-4 formation: Syed Abdul Rahim came up with this tactic and used False 9 in an Era where these things were unknown. This tactic was later used by Brazil to win their first World Cup (1958), where Pele played.

5. Football Prophet: Concepts and Training which Rahim Sir came up in 1950s were later being taught in Brazil (in 1960s) when Brazil became best in the world.

6. Indian Football's Holy Trinity: PK Banerjee, Chuni Goswami and Tulsidas Balaram were considered as one of the best attacking trio in Football world. Balaram was considered as modern type footballer, would have been like Thierry Henry in this Era.

7. Asia's Best Goalkeeper: Peter Thangaraj, he was even considered as one of the world's best keeper.

8. Cinematography: Football which has been captured in this film is just insane. It's almost like your are playing FIFA video game or watching match in Player's perspective.