Pursuing a career in sports in India comes with unique challenges—high training costs, limited infrastructure, and the pressure to balance education with professional ambitions. But times are changing. With improved coaching, sponsorships, and increasing job opportunities in sports management and science, the future looks promising.
This exclusive eBook provides a deep dive into various sporting disciplines, offering aspiring athletes and their families the insights needed to navigate this journey.
What’s inside:
Spotlight on Major Disciplines – Cricket, Football, Badminton, Athletics, Chess, and more
How to Get Started – Training academies, scouting pathways, scholarships
Financial Aspects – Cost of training, sponsorships, government schemes
Beyond the Field – Careers in sports management, coaching, and journalism
Editor’s Note
This e-book on sports as a career is the latest in The Hindu’s series of publications that deal elaborately with subjects of general interest, which go beyond the regular news cycle.
Choosing any sport as a career for their wards is seen as a risk by parents because of the huge costs involved in their training, the low rate of success at the highest levels, the difficulty in simultaneously continuing their formal education, and the relative absence of quality level coaching and training institutions.
This book seeks to provide the answers to the questions in the minds of parents and aspiring sportspersons about training facilities and what it takes to find success.
This series of books in digital format will be available free for subscribers of the online edition, including epaper, and available for purchase for others.
Each e-book is based on a single theme and seeks to be comprehensive with articles from subject experts across the world. We hope this will be a useful resource for our reader community and will add value to our growing digital library.
– Suresh Nambath, Editor
To download a sample of the e-book : https://newsth.live/SportsEbook_Sample
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Published – April 29, 2025 12:23 pm IST
