NAINAMVALAPPU FOOTBALL FANS ASSOCIATION(NFFA)

Forget IPL Cricket, Think IPL Soccer

2012-01-31T12:25:00.000+05:30

Hernan Crespo hottest property of Indian football league

African Nations Cup 2012

2012-01-27T17:47:00.000+05:30

African Nations Cup 2012 is in progress.But, we have no chance to watch it as there is no telecast in India. We drawthe attention of Sports channels operating in India to telecast the football championshipof African Continent. We hope all football fans in India will join us in this campaign.

Sunil Chhetri: Indian Football Player of the year 2011

2011-12-21T11:53:00.000+05:30

Congratulations

Will Sunday’s FIFA Club World Cup final -Barcelona Vs Santos- be a classic match?

2011-12-17T19:20:00.000+05:30

Will Sunday’s FIFA Club WorldCup final -Barcelona Vs Santos- be a classic match?

AC Milan Vs. Barcelona, 2011 UEFA Champions League Matchday 5 Preview: Iniesta, Boateng Absences Massive - SBNation.com

2011-11-23T20:24:00.000+05:30

AC Milan Vs. Barcelona, 2011 UEFA Champions League Matchday 5 Preview: Iniesta, Boateng Absences Massive - SBNation.com

Indian football

2011-10-27T18:08:00.000+05:30

Indian MediaReports “Shortage of Audience for Cricket matches in India!!!Will it helpIndian football???

I-League kicks off

2011-10-23T17:04:00.000+05:30

Messi in India

2011-09-01T15:52:00.000+05:30

Football legend Messi is now in India to play against Venezuela in a friendly match. Indian football fans are very excited.

Can Neymar lead Brazil to Copa America 2011 final?

2011-07-14T18:03:00.000+05:30

Copa America Argentina 2011

2011-06-29T19:31:00.002+05:30

Copa America Argentina 2011-Fax to the Prime Minister-requesting live telecast in India

2011-06-28T16:18:00.002+05:30

Minister MK Muneer with football fans

2011-06-21T18:44:00.000+05:30

Sepp Blatter FIFA President

2011-06-01T15:20:00.004+05:30

Football Fans Watching the Final on a Giant Screen at Nainamvalappu

2011-05-30T20:16:00.002+05:30

Minister M.K.Muneer watching the Big Screen Display of UEFA Champions League Final

2011-05-30T20:12:00.000+05:30

Collector P B Salim with football fans in Nainamvalappu

2011-05-20T16:52:00.001+05:30

Collector Dr.P B Salim addresses the football fans after unveiling the Replica of World Cup

2010 fifa world Cup-Story by Madhurbhumi Daily

2010-05-29T12:29:00.002+05:30

Football world cup 2010-Story by Manorama

2010-05-29T12:22:00.000+05:30

FIFA World Cup 2010-Story by Madhyamam Daily

2010-05-29T12:10:00.001+05:30

South Africa 2010-Story by Chandrika Daily

2010-05-29T12:00:00.001+05:30

FIFA World Cup football-NFFA President Speaks to Amrita Channel

2009-11-23T15:46:00.002+05:30

Argentina fans celebrate their team’s qualification

2009-11-18T13:08:00.000+05:30

Argentina fans celebrate their team’s qualification

I M Vijayan, Jo Paul Ancheri with NFFA President

2009-11-06T18:21:00.000+05:30

This is how we start playing football

2009-01-23T15:32:00.001+05:30

NFFA WELCOMES EURO2008 IN STYLE

2008-07-29T18:31:00.000+05:30

ESPN Crew in Nainamvalappu

2008-05-30T18:53:00.000+05:30

News Clipping from New Indian Express, Monday June 19 2006
Catching the fans in action
KOZHIKODE: Witnessing a ‘falling leaf kick’ by Ronaldinho ‘live’ may be a dream for the football fans at Nainamvalappu in the city. But that does not prevent them from dancing with the golden moments in the World Cup.They dance with the movements of Lionel Messi or Wayne Rooney and bring the Mexican Wave to the shores of the Arabian Sea. These hard-core football lovers live, eat and sleep football.No wonder, that the ESPN came all the way to Nainamvalappu to capture the beauty of their love for football. "Football is a passion for the people here," says Goutham Dimani, programme anchor with the ESPN.ESPN has featured the Mexican waves at Nainamvalappu for their ‘Duniya Goal Main’, a daily programme featuring football fever in India.The flex boards put up at every nook and cranny in the city astonished them and of course the story of a model world cup trophy. Yes, the Ninamvalappu Fans Association has a world cup trophy!They have been presenting the wooden trophy since 1994, not to the winning team, but to the fans association (of the World Cup winners) at Nainamvalappu. Interestingly, all 32 teams participating in the World Cup have fans association here. Even new entrants such as Angola and Tongo have fans in this part of the city.The Nainamvalappu Football Fans Association has also received T-shirts, souvenirs, label and pins from the FIFA.

ESPN crew with football fans in Nainamvalappu

2008-05-30T18:46:00.000+05:30

ESPN Crew with NFFA officials

2008-05-30T18:36:00.000+05:30

During the shooting of Duniya Goal hai Programme

This is how we welcomed Germany 2006

2008-05-30T18:10:00.000+05:30

Football Fans in Nainamvalappu During Germany2006

How we ejoyed World Cup Germany 2006

2008-05-30T17:41:00.000+05:30

NAINAMVALAPPU SCHOOL HALL

Our Story by India Today

2008-05-24T13:57:00.000+05:30

India TodayCover StoryStory
More than a game
M.G. Radhakrishnan
September 24, 2007

Every August when the English Premier Football League kicks off far away in the sceptred isle, homemakers in Nainamvalappu, a coastal hamlet in Kozhikode, get ready to cluster around their television sets.

The men and boys spend their nights at their club, the Nainamvalappu Football Fans Association, glued to the giant television screen at the local school. After the match they dissect every move and analyse every goal.

Like the time Manchester United played Manchester City in their city’s face-off. The people of Nainamvalappu argue, and passions run high. Often even fights break out between rival clubs.

“We did not show the match on the giant screen for there surely would have been bloodshed,” says N.V. Subair, 30, the secretary of the club, recalling a match between Argentina and Brazil. The Latin American Football Association sends their publications free to the club.

ESPN routinely features the fans and clubs in the district league are called Barcelona and Chelsea. Their players wear their idols’ jerseys and many are known by their names—be it Ronaldinho or Bianchi. Football is even more intense in neighbouring Malappuram, better known as Kerala’s Brazil.

The district has many football villages like Areacode known for their fanatic loyalty to clubs. “Here football is both a unifying and a divisive force. Football unites us across religious or political boundaries, but we also quarrel over it intensely,” says Habib Rehman, an Areacode player.

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