Summary:
It was 1995 and around 150 young men from the locality came together to level a pond in B Kalyanapuram to construct a football ground. Their labour of love — the first football ground in Vyasarpadi — exists even today, but is inside a school compound. Today, several children come to play at the artificial football turf that the Corporation has constructed for SCSTEDS in Vyasarpadi. “Back then, there was no place to play football in Vyasarpadi. The sight of bullock carts ferrying construction debris to Vyasarpadi in the dead of night is still fresh in football coach N Thangaraj’s mind..