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From Shafali Verma to Zohran Mamdani: The underdogs of 2025 and their tales of victory
Published on: Dec. 17, 2025, 11:07 a.m. | Source: Firstpost
The year 2025 has given us many underdogs, on and off the sports field. There’s the stupendous victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral race, that winning performance of India’s Shafali Verma at the ICC World Cup finals against South Africa, and not to forget Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who continues to rally his country as well as allies against the Russian invasion
