For India's Jyoti, its football over high-paying corporate job

She looks cut out for those serious board-room meetings but then 23-year-old Jyoti Ann Burrett would reveal that she is the striker of Indian women's football team and you would be stunned watching her poaching skills at training.
Women's football in India isn't a lucrative career-option but this Delhi girl, who holds a Masters degree in Sports and Health Science from Uiversity of Exeter, decided to listen to her heart and pursue here biggest passion-playing football.
"I got a lot of strange reactions as to why I opted for football over a corporate career. Why didn't I go for a well-paid desk job after completion of my Masters degree but I was clear in my mind that this is what I wanted to do...To represent my country in football," Jyoti, who has been selected in the Indian squad for AFC Cup (Qualifiers) told PTI today.

The burning desire to don the national colours made Jyoti turn a deaf ear to suggestions about not being able to earn enough money plying her trade on a football field.
"Many would ask me 'Are you going to earn enough out of playing football over a corporate job? What's the future has in store for you, where from now, but football stayed my first love and like every other kid, I dreamt of representing India?" she added.
Jyoti, an alumni of Welham Girls' School in Dehradun and St Stephen's College feels that once she played in National tournament, it changed her mindset and she started taking the game seriously.

"I started with football juggling and I am capable of performing a lot of aerial stunts with the football. You know it's the showy aspect of the game.
"But only in college, I started taking football seriously and developed keen interest in the sport. I started playing University football in the UK and also trained with Tottenham Hotspur in their pre-season camp last year which helped me immensely," claims Jyoti.