Dasharath Stadium, Nepal’s only int’l football venue, is plagued with super-basic problems for years

On a cold winter morning, Surendra Rai along with three others are at the Dasharath Stadium watering the ground that over the past week has held five A-Division League matches.

As it is winter, there is hardly any grass in the field which also needs patching up from the battering it has taken over the course of the past week. The workers usually have three days to make the ground ready for another round of fixtures and they know that they will need to work round the clock to ensure that the pitch is safe for playing.