Click to play videoMumbai: Like every other community in India, the Parsi community too is revelling in the football mania.
The Parsi organised a football match in heavy rains. Nothing special one would say, but wait. This was no ordinary match. The players were seated on scooters all the time they were playing football.
It was scooter-football at its best - the chase, the dodging, the skidding - all in ankle-deep slush on a 100 cc machine, with riders tough and mean riders.
"Just check out my weight. I think playing football on a 100 cc scooter is great fun," grins one of the participants, Melvin.
With so much at stake, one can just imagine the delight of the players when they score a goal - especially when they have an audience that loves the rains and is loud, flamboyant and totally World Cup crazy.
The match is even more enjoyable for someone like Cawas Mistry, who despite a disability, is enjoying every moment of what he is experiencing.
"It's great fun. One just needs to know how to handle a scooter well," says he.
And a match like this requires a lot of legwork from the refree - even if he belongs to the FIFA league.
Says FIFA Referee, Walter Pereira, "Put to test with machine, not human, run to keep pace."
But in the end, scooters or no scooters, the match is all about good old team work and the final analysis will work towards showing whether the man-machine combination will work out.
For these Parsi, the sport is extreme, best played in dirt and rain and a different kind of soccer with all the fun of soccer. But they insist that the best way to experience sooter football first-hand is in the rains.
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