He has been made the captain of the Maharashtra Under-16 football team and has returned to Bombay from Calcutta after playing in the nationals in February. Under his captaincy, the team won their match against Tamil Nadu, 1-0, but lost to Chandigarh, 3-1. In their encounter against Jharkhand, the Maharashtra boys went down 2-1. "Porus scored a goal and assisted in another one which was wrongly disallowed,” narrates his father Firdaus Shroff. "His coach told me that overall Porus played very well.”
On January 27-28, 2011, Maharashtra had won the zonal finals at the Cooperage grounds in Bombay, thus qualifying to play in the nationals. For the lads, the stress kicked off by an all-India contest was compounded by the rigors of such a long journey to Calcutta and back in a railway carriage, requiring commitment on and off the field! "Since Porus is on the threshold of doing so well in football, he needs to be sent outside India for training and improving his skill, which would cost approximately Rs 10 lakhs for every trip of three-four weeks. So sponsorship support is vital,” states Firdaus. "Believe me, football is going to become huge in India in the coming years.”
Kyra Shroff: on WTA rankings; Maharashtra U-16 captain Porus Shroff
Kyra Shroff, Porus’older sister, is on the Sony Ericsson WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) ranking charts, with a doubles rank of 781 and a singles rank of 953, as of January 31, 2011. In February, the 19-year-old played in the women’s $ 10,000 ITF (International Tennis Federation) tournaments in Aurangabad and Bombay which had players of international rank much higher than hers. "Getting on to the WTA ranking charts is the first step towards making it bigger on the tour and improving her ranking on the world circuit,” Firdaus informs Parsiana. The expenses, as everyone knows, are huge per year, he adds, and financial backing is imperative.