27th May of the year 080. How was the match played between Three Star and Jawalakhel Club at the Dashrath Stadium? The discussion of this last game of Shahid Smarak League 'A' Division 079-080 will be described differently in different contexts. This was also the last game of Bikram Lama who was a member of the Nepali National Football Team. The true endgame of a player's life.

He was emotional after the game. What he felt was that the joy of playing football in Dasharath Rangshal in front of a full audience, now he will not be able to absorb it again. What is sad is that the football of the upper division has not been repeated since that day. Now, Nepali football fans are counting down the days that there has been no league, thinking that too sadly.

is afraid that sooner or later the thousand days will not be reached. If the arrangement of the upper division not having a league continues like this. And one more question, how long has it been since there was no official knockout tournament from All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) in Kathmandu? It is also not possible to count the days. Because it has already touched 13 years of nothing.

Who is to blame for all this? Anfa-led establishment party? The group that disagrees with it? Of the club participating in the 'A' division? The sad thing among all the questions is that no one has asked why the league did not happen. In all of these cases, it is the same players that Pelline calls out. 'A' division is not a league, only the players have suffered, the establishment side and no one against it.

If we go back to the last league, it was the team that won the title, Church Boys United. A total of 14 teams participated in that league. A total of 91 matches were played on a round robin basis. The total number of players participating in that league was 393. It turned out to be the exact number. Now the question is, where are these players now? Among them, Vikram was one of the players who stopped playing.

Now he is the president of the Football Players Association. As much as the football players of that time are met, they all have one complaint, there is no football competition. That was the league. This has directly damaged the financial aspects of the players. More than that, even famous players are starting to think, if there is no football, why should they continue to play? What happens after playing football?

About 70 of the total players who played in that league were foreigners. It may not be an exact number, it may be a few up or down. In this case, we can assume the number of Nepalese players to be 323. If we make a list of all of them, 145 are still playing football. That is about 45 percent. For those who are still playing, their source of income is very poor competition.

is simply called 'Khep'. Some are forced to go and play on Indian land. Some are sustaining themselves by playing very weak tournaments organized within the country. Just look at the field where such a tournament takes place, most of it is not fit to play football. As a result, half of those who continue to play football are injured at some point.

About 103 players who played in the last 'A' division have stopped playing football. That's about 32 percent. And as many as 75 players have fled abroad. This is 23 percent. None of them are playing football. Those who claim to play it are nothing more than fantasy football. That means they stopped playing too.

In this way, 55 percent of the players who played in the last 'A' division stopped playing football. This has become a very disappointing situation. There are also more players from three departmental teams (Army, Police and APF) who quit playing football and go abroad. Since there is no football, the police, army and APF are no longer attractive destinations for players. Again, players are not in a position to be confident about their future by playing for these departmental teams.