He says it should be considered a good job opportunity and that parents must be educated about how games can be a viable career option for their children. <img alt="Shah Rukh Khan" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/may/Shah-Rukh-Khan_4.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 540px;" /> &quot;Parents will always be wary of sports as a profession and I don&#39;t see why they should not be...Parents will have to see that there is a job opportunity here,&quot; he said at the launch of Toyota university cricket championship held here Thursday. Owner of Kolkata Knight Riders Indina Premier League (IPL) team, he added: &quot;I am a big speaker of sports as a commercial success. Parents should know that it can be a salary job. Your kids will be proud of you.&quot; A sports lover, the 47-year-old is willing to support every sport in the country. &quot;My movies has given me the position of a brand ambassador of a certain caliber. I would like to utilize it in whatever way possible for the sports,&quot; he said. &quot;I actually would like to be the brand ambassador of any sport in the country. I am good at sports. I love sports. I like cricket. Hockey is the best game in the world,&quot; he added. However, what bothers him is that even today children can&#39;t confidently say that &quot;they want to be a professional sportsman&quot;. &quot;In the last 25 years, because of the advent of technology, story writers and all, a lot of people want to be in media and films. The age of conventional jobs is over. &quot;But I think we have not reached that stage in our country where children can come up and say I want to make sports my job and be a professional sportsperson,&quot; he added. Other than cricket, King Khan also wants to encourage football in India. &quot;We are the only nation who are on the threshold of development and we don&#39;t have a good football team,&quot; he said and added the most of the developing nations have it &quot;as it is a cheapest sport&quot;. The actor, who is associated with the hit sports-themed movie &quot;Chak De! India&quot;, a film that put the women&#39;s hockey under spotlight, feels the condition of women sports hasn&#39;t changed much. &quot;I haven&#39;t seen a change. Films reflect society and show the condition of women&#39;s sports. It is sad that the situation is like this. I really think it is more important for women to come up. We keep talking about rights and protection, but I feel one of the biggest things for women is to divert their energies and attention to promote women&#39;s sport,&quot; he said. Talking about the motto of his team Kolkata Knight Riders, Shah Rukh said: &quot;My team has only one plan, go win the match and win the IPL championship.&quot;u00a0

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