As Bulbul Majhi took a walk down memory lane, he could not think of a day when he failed to turn up for training since he was 19 or 20. Maybe only on that fateful afternoon when he lost his father. He turned 60 this summer and has dedicated his life to the game. He never ventured into family life.
Nonetheless, he considers himself married to football and his young apprentices as his family. "It is not right to have two wives, especially at this age," he laughed out loud.
However, in his adolescence he nurtured a dream, a dream that drives most Bengali youth even today, i.e. to become a professional footballer. But soon, he understood that he did not have the quality to even qualify for the district team. And yet he was not ready to give up on football.
