Azamgarh: Azamgarh district of UP is historically one of the important districts of the state. Many big celebrities like Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay ‘Harioun’, Kaifi Azmi and Shibli Nomani have been born in this district. Jinho has raised the name of this district by waving his glory in many areas ranging from literature, education, music to actress.
Along with this, Azamgarh has also claimed his claim in the field of sports. Many big players from this soil of the district have displayed their talent on the world stage. Similarly, there is a village in Azamgarh. Which is called the land of volleyball. Here, a child of child-children volleyball comes out in every house.
Many big players of volleyball have a village
Kakarhata village, located about 10 kilometers from the district headquarters, has its own distinct identity in itself. This village is called the land of volleyball game. The child of every household here specializes in the talent of playing volleyball. Even today, if there is talk of volleyball sports or talent in the district, then the name of Kakarhata village is first taken. The biggest reason for this is that the youth here consider this game to be their first choice. Many big faces from this district have won by participating in national and international matches in volleyball games.
Volleyball journey started from Burma
In this small village of Azamgarh, the teams of almost all the states of India have participated in the volleyball competition, whose living evidence is the volleyball ground present in this village, in which many generations of this village have passed while playing and through this game, not only their district and their district and their names have been illuminated. Talking to Local 18, Javed Ahmed Dampi, a resident of this village, says that in 1942, Iqbal Marhoom, a resident of the village, learned the skills of the game while living in Burma country and brought it to the land of his village Kakarhata.
Many players get government jobs
The craze of the youth of this village has increased. People started taking interest in learning it and over time this generation increased to generation. Javed Dampi says that there was also an international match of volleyball in this village in 2016, in which many big volleyball teams of the country and the world participated. The tournament was discussed not only in the district but in the entire state.
Asad, a resident of this village and playing to the national level in volleyball, says that many youths of the village have also got many government jobs through sports quota while playing volleyball. Some of which are still working today and some have also retired. There are still many big players of volleyball in this village.
Now the identity of the extinct village
At the same time, with time, the craze of this game is becoming less in this village. People of the new generation have started taking more interest in online gaming. Now his interest in physical games is almost over, due to which Kakarhata’s identity volleyball is now gradually becoming extinct from here. However, several tournaments are organized at the Volleyball Stadium of the village time from time to time, due to which the identity of this village remains with volleyball.