This week, Hashir all and 11 of his friends will make a long trip-from Kozhikode City in the southen state of Kerala to Doha, the Capital of Qatar.
Mr Ali, 55, football-crazy Civil engineer, and his friends are travelling to Doha for the word Cup, where there will stay for 10 days to watch the matcher live.
Mr ali Bought tickets for the matches six months ago throya friend in doha and has been waiting for the Big moment ever since.
He is among sevetal fans in india, who are gung-ho about football, along with Kerala, kolkata city in the eastern state of west Bengal and Kolhapur district in the western state of Maharashtra also have a large Number of football fans.
With the world's second Largest popuy, many feel india Is Under-represented in the words most popular sport- the national weam languishes in 106th sport in Fifa's rankings.
Though India qualified in 1950, they have never actually made it to the world Cup, They refused to participate, parlty because it would have meant their normally barefoot team having to wear football boots.
But every time the world cup is held india's football fans do crazy things to express their love for the sport, and their favourite international team.
They save up for months to travel to watch the games: hold mork matchers sporting their favourite team's jerseys predict who will win the championship and take out colourful processions to celebtrate their teams victories.
By Shamsong Sd