Sports can be a means to claim our identity

      We all are a nationalist of a beautiful and potentially superpower nation Nepal. Still we are lost in the huge world filled with numerous nations. Many  of our nationalist find it difficult even to prove our identity among others and some others puts a strong statement towards others just by reveling their nationality. If somebody says I am a US nationalist it creates a huge recognition to their nationality and the person next to him can visualize his nation perfectly. Can't we identify ourselves to the rest of the world similarly? Surely we can, there may be alternative ways but I am trying to put a perspective into identifying ourselves to the rest of the world distinctly. A approach I feel which works in this direction is "Sports approach to our identity".
      The simple way to put a statement, "We are Nepali with distinct identity", is by supporting our sports. How it works is through media coverage. Most of us might be aware that sports have one of the biggest media coverage in terms of audience. If we imagine World Cup Football, half of the world population are following  it and Brazilian doesn't need to identify themselves to the world, world itself knows them as footballing powerhouse. Let's not expect big but take a step towards it, even a smallest of footballing achievement like Nepal's win over India was headline in world wide footballing site goal.com, Bimal Gharti's goal was topic of discussion on European media, Nepal's cricketing success in Division 3 caught attention of many cricketing greats, as a result developed intent in cricketing great Brain Lara to visit Nepal. All this did nothing, but identified ourselves to the rest of the world more than we were known before. We can catch big international media attention by supporting Nepalese Sports. We should have an objective of  developing a sportsperson from each household, it works for the physical fitness of an individual as well fosters our identity by being a potential sportsperson available for selection if nation needs. It many not work well with people of different views but what I feel is, it certainly works. None of big footballing nation have an identity problem to their nationality so does cricketing nations, so we can gain that identity just by supporting our sports.
      We are having difficulty to prove our identity, this is not the biggest problem but even our rich history is cashed in by others which is shame to our Nationality. Years gone in our effort to prove the truth "Buddha was born in    Nepal", still we need to fight for it day in and out. Sporting crowd at Dashrath Stadium did put a statement towards it with a banner, but it needs more coverage for it to work properly. We can imagine if we were a world class footballing side, how big coverage it would have achieved and we would have been relieved of continuous justification to a fact, to the rest of the world. So take a step towards identifying ourselves to the rest of the world by supporting sports.
      Supporting sports doesn't mean undermining a sports at the cost of other, all the sports should join hands together and should work to achieve a objective to enhance our identity to the rest of the world. Football supporters should cheer for cricket and Cricket lovers should support football too. Let others say 'Buddha was born in Nepal", the country which is the holder of World Cup ...................... This is the best way to goooooooooooooo........................., Jai Nepal.