![Why Pakistan football failed to flourish despite growing popularity [Nukta]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Pakistan-crowd-at-Jinnah-Stadium-Islamabad-for-WCQs-vs-Cambodia-1160x535.jpg "Why Pakistan football failed to flourish despite growing popularity [Nukta]")
There are a thousand different reasons why the beautiful game paints a bleak picture in a sports-mad country. But primarily it’s power struggles, poor management and allegations of corruption within the national set-up which have caused the greatest harm.
![FOOTBALL: GLORY DAYS, PASS ME BY [Dawn]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/PIDC-East-footballers-including-Ustad-Amin-Baloch-in-1960s.jpg "FOOTBALL: GLORY DAYS, PASS ME BY [Dawn]")
Surviving Pakistani and Bangladeshi footballers from the 1960s - Ustad Amin Baloch, Hafiz Uddin Ahmed and Golam Sarwar Tipu - recall the heyday and downfall of a footballing nation.
![REVIVING FOOTBALL IN LYARI [Dawn EOS]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Karachi-FC-boys.jpg "REVIVING FOOTBALL IN LYARI [Dawn EOS]")
Karachi’s oldest and working class settlement Lyari is famed worldwide for its passion for football in particular. Swindon Town and Karachi FC aim to take to next level.
![Comment: Pele’s relevance in Pakistan went beyond the sport [Dawn]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Pele-1970-1024x535.webp "Comment: Pele’s relevance in Pakistan went beyond the sport [Dawn]")
Almost no one in Pakistan was lucky enough to see Pele in his glorious career, yet his name always had reverence and respect for decades.
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![Balochistan’s boundless passion for football has nowhere to go but an event is keeping the flame alive [Dawn]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Ayub-Stadium-Quetta-during-Ufone-4G-Football-Cup-2021.jpg "Balochistan’s boundless passion for football has nowhere to go but an event is keeping the flame alive [Dawn]")
Ufone 4G Football Cup shows football's crazy popularity in Balochistan but locals wonder if there is a real way for talent and the sport to actually progress in long-term
![The story of Karachi’s KMC football stadium [TNS]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/KMC-Stadium-watching-KPT-vs-KRL-Naya-Nazimabad-Quaid-e-Azam-Tournament-final.jpg "The story of Karachi’s KMC football stadium [TNS]")
With the People’s Sports Complex having been left unattended, KMC Stadium is the only venue of the mega city where crowds come to witness football
![Lyari’s Football House [Dawn EOS]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Lyaris-Football-House-in-Chakiwara.jpg "Lyari’s Football House [Dawn EOS]")
Lyari’s Chakiwara neighbourhood may be well-known for being the epicentre of a celebrated Urdu novel. But it is also famous for a building that symbolises its love of football
![KMC Football stadium: Downtrodden glory [ARY]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/KMC-Stadium-Karachi.jpg "KMC Football stadium: Downtrodden glory [ARY]")
Karachi's historic KMC Football Stadium craving to somehow go back to its glory days.
![Hafiz Salman recalls good old days of Pakistan football [The Nation]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/hafiz-salman-butt-app.jpg "Hafiz Salman recalls good old days of Pakistan football [The Nation]")
Ex-PFF secretary says he knows well how to improve declining standard of the game
