New Delhi: If all goes well then Indian football fans would be much delighted as an IPL-styled football league is being planned that Indian would host. According to Economic Times, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and richest Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani have joined hands to kick off an Indian Premier League like football league in India. India might be a cricket-crazy nation, but there are millions of football fans too. Murdoch’s Star India has picked up a one-third stake in a company that is jointly owned by Ambani’s Reliance Industries and IMG. The company is set to promote football in India through the league that is about to start in January next year, reported the Economic Times. Although it was the Premier Hockey League in 2005 that marked the inception of sports leagues in India, the format was popularized by cricket’s Indian Premier League or IPL. Recently Indian Badminton League’s first season concluded. But for the first time a major broadcaster has shown interest in this manner in a sports league in India and Star is apparently going to pay a whopping 2,000 crore in a deal that would include both equity and broadcasting rights for 10 years. Mukesh Ambani's wife and IMG-Reliance's chairperson Nita Ambani has said that the launch of such a league would let the Indian population enjoy and cherish the 'most loved game' across the globe. Source: News Bullet, Image
