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#3 'Historic' matches against China and Jordan
The Indian national football team played a few friendlies against higher-ranked sides in the build-up to the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. The matches against Jordan and China were given utmost importance, with huge media coverage but it was overdone because the fixtures were termed ‘historic’ for no reason.
India has not played many matches against teams like Jordan and China and neither do they share a fierce rivalry. Matches are termed ‘historic’ when it involves games like Iraq vs Iran, Israel vs Palestine or North Korea vs South Korea. Since there's political tension involved, these friendlies are historic in the sense that this event changed the relations between the two sides. Why is a friendly against Jordan historic then?
The display by the ‘Blue Tigers’ in the above-mentioned matches are definitely laudable. They managed to keep much stronger sides at bay during the 90 minutes. But those are no grounds to term these matches as ‘historic’.
