India, June 27 -- Football as a sport has undergone a strategic shift. This shift is exemplified through the upsets, victories and tenacity that audiences are witnessing globally. Football today has moved beyond being a traditional bastion of favored nations to becoming a global sporting festival. The performance of Cape Verde has created a football tsunami for pundits and strategists analyzing the emergence of a new brigade in the football fraternity. It has stunned viewers through its spectacular performance against Spain and Uruguay. DR Congo has emerged with a new killer instinct. Other nations such as Egypt, Haiti, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Iraq and Canada have also given us a whiff of professionalism that has been unprecedented and unpara...