Sporting phenomenon II
live sporting can turn into an addiction!
now that the season's over, life feels kinda empty.
here's how i covered my first assignment as a sports journalist for the
AFC youth championship at shree kanteerva stadium.
Not being on a regular (forget regular, not any) payroll of a media organisation is a pain, especially when you wanna get entry to such events.
But finding ways to work around it is fun too!
step 1
sneak into the media gallery (through the VIP entrance) unnoticed, if u happened to be perticularly attractive as moi, then this step is obsolete, then you move on to..
step 2
explain the hierarchy of officials you get referred to, what a 'student journalist' is... give up and finally retort to be invisible to the match officials (again futile as step 1)
if this doesnt work as well then,
step3
use your contacts ,if you're smart enough this would be your first step.
and if you're really lucky...
step 4
The media chairman one day walks up and says
(oh no, this is the end) "tomorrow you come and collect the media pass, dont forget your photograph!"
YAY
is this for real.... and find yourself...
sitting on the media gallery, and reporting live is something i could sure get used to!
we'd discuss the intricasies and nuances of the game (i'd mostly listen) swap juicy tid-bits on Dasmunshi's life (most journos hate him)
there was a regular supply of refreshments (cold samosa and soggy sandwiches), which the japanese seemed to love (including the mutated version of kaju barfi!)
The sports journos....wow, most of them were players themselves (even if it was at school level),or coaches and referees.
Personifed giant sports encyclopedia, rattling out statistics and profiles making me feel like a pathetic dumb school girl!
The best part were the post match press conferences, the battle of the journos began, the foriegn coaches and players would pretend not to understand the language to evade inconvenient questions.
In a matter of weeks i knew more about football then i had in all twenty one years of life
More then that, i found a career!
like the game of football, come rain, come sunshine, there aint a moment of dullness.
So much for hating something! now its a passion.
life's so unpredictable,you never know where it takes you.
Well, this time around it took me right to the football pitch.
5 comments:
journos really have a tough time...........well u got something better about football compared to ur previous 'attack' on it.
hey its gr8 i start missing the match. u put ur ideas very nicely. you become the diffrent person when u blog.so mad angel keep ur ideas while writing article also. ur way is really the highway.
How can you become dumb? It is your previlage to act whenever you get time.
You should show your prowess. ok
not ur best, but definitely up there. u still retain ur knack of cutting right to the chase.
but i feel u could've stretched it a bit.
keep blgging, u're doing great.
cheerio
he he he.
u found urs, i found mine. i could make docus all my life. wassay? and ur idea of meeting up to do another one will go far. trust me on this. i will be there.
and yeah...with all the crap in life, work does take all the pain away
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