t was . After180 minutes, the party and the dream were over: India’s Under-17 women’s team were out of the World Cup on home soil. In Bhubaneswar, the supporters, the flags and the DJ were all there, but India’s team was exposed. The manner of the elimination was grating; an 8-0 loss to the United States in the curtain-raiser was deflating at all levels and indicative of what the rest of the tournament would be about – damage limitation. Against Morocco,
