A Story of a Special Player
Football indeed is a beautiful game. Every boy who has ever played or watched football has fallen in love with the game. It is an extremely physical sport requiring complete fitness to get the most out of a game.
But not everybody who loves the sport is born with the same gifts. Some have everything at hand to make it big while some are not handed the same privileges to do what they love most.
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This is the story of one such Young Hero, Biswajit Sarkar — an avid football fanatic from Shishu Siksha Niketan, who had to fight with odds to keep playing the sport he has always loved. He lost his left arm, but that did not stop him from pursuing his passion and fulfilling his dreams of playing football.
Since he was a kid, it was football that always drove him. This led him to start playing his beloved game and it has been 7 years since the day he kicked the ball for the first time. Football has become an integral part of his life. He decided to use what God gave him, his both legs, and be better than most at the only sport that drives him.
Today, Biswajit Sarkar represents his school team in the pan-India Star Sports Young Heroes Tournament and plays against some of the best in the city of Kolkata; and is one of the best players to take the field.
He’s a superbly-abled individual. It is such talent and such stories that would have gone unnoticed if not for such a noble initiative like Young Heroes. This indeed is an opportunity for Biswajit Sarkar and other talents like him to shine through and get noticed nationally and get a chance to finally pursue the dream that has kept talents like him awake for most their young lives.
