Video: Footage of Indian football team playing barefoot in Australia in 1938

The first Indian football team to travel internationally, arrived in Fremantle, and were welcomed to Australia by the chairman of the board of control of the West Australian Soccer Football Association (F. Smith), the secretary (Claude Eayrs) and members of the board.

The manager of the team (P. Gupta) was on his second visit to Australia, having made the trip made previously as manager of the Indian hockey team, which toured Australia and New Zealand in 1934.

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