After attending last years IC Kabbaddi cup I thought it would be appropriate to head back this year with a better understanding of the game. One thing I noticed about the competiton this year was that their were a lot more teams involced and a lot more fans watching too. As well as this there were also more female matches this year too. My main intention of attending this live event wa to see how the Birmingham team did as that is my home town and I know a few of the players on the team.
Birmingham did very well in the tournament and ended up in the semi finals vs Lse, Unfortunately missing out in a gruelling extra time affair. For those who want to see highlights of the semi final they can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehIc4ocF_xg
The tournament was hosted in Imperial college in London and involced university teams from all around the country. The first game Birmingham beat Oxford A team 37-0 which is a very huge score . This incidentally is the main game I focused on for this live event .In the sport of Kabaddi it is very rare for a team to concede 0 points to the opposition and you could tell from the players reactions and the fans faces that confidence was very high after the first game. The defenders were strong and agile, the attackers nimble and clinical. Birmingham were one of the form teams heading into the competition and the first match showed just how good they were.
After the game I caught up with Birmingham star player and captan Vinay Gupta who is also part of the England set up training for the next Kabaddi world cup in Tokyo. The full Interview can be found here
https://soundcloud.com/user390459999/kabadi-match-reportinterview
With Kabbaddi gaining more and more popularity throughtout the uk, I feel as though many schools may now start to implement this sport into the curriculum and that the sport will grow as a result.
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