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The Indian national football team (Hindi: भारत की राष्ट्रीय फुटबॉल टीम;Bengali: ভারতের জাতিয় ফূটবল দল ;Kannada: ಭಾರತದ ರಾಷ್ಟೀಯ ಫುಟ್ಬಾಲ್ ತಂಡ ; Marathi: भारत फुटबॉल संघ; Tamil: இந்திய கால்பந்து அணி) is governed by the All India Football Federation. It is a member of the Asian Football Confederation. Since 1948, the AIFF has been affiliated with FIFA, the international governing body for football. In 1954, AIFF became one of the founder members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). At the peak of its success during the 1950s and 1960s, the team was automatically advanced to play in the 1950 FIFA World Cup (all the other Asian teams withdrew), but they did not go to the tournament in Brazil due to the cost of travel, lack of practice time, team selection issues and valuing the Olympics over the FIFA World Cup.[2] They won gold medals at two Asian Games, one silver at the Asian Cup and held the record for the best performance ™