India, June 8 -- A content creator from Manipur has put off buying a new laptop worth nearly Rs.2 lakh to fulfil a dream he has carried since childhood - attending a FIFA World Cup match in person.

In an as-told-to essay published in Business Insider, 40-year-old Worchihan Zingkhai recounted how his love for football began in a small village in northeast India, where residents would gather around a single television to watch World Cup matches.

"I've loved football for as long as I can remember," Zingkhai said, recalling how he grew up in a region where football is deeply ingrained in daily life. He shared that children in his village often improvised by making footballs from plastic and old clothes because proper equipment was hard to c...