The 21st Gyalyum Chenmo Memorial Gold Cup football tournament, the most coveted sporting event of the Tibetan diaspora, kicked off in McLeod Ganj. 28 Tibetan football clubs and 448 players from the United States, Canada, Europe, Nepal and India are participating in this year’s tournament which will run until June 10. The tournament was first held in 1981 in memory of HH the Dalai Lama’s late mother.