Buenos Aires, Oct 20 (IANS) Argentine football legend Diego Maradona suffers from severe osteoarthritis and needs to undergo knee surgery, one of his physicians has said. “We treated him before the World Cup so he could get through his activities in Russia in the best way,” Maradona’s doctor German Ochoa[Read More…]
Chennai: NorthEast United FC upstaged reigning Indian Super League (ISL) champions Chennaiyin FC in a seven-goal spectacle at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Thursday. A hat-trick from star striker Bartholomew Ogbeche (29th, 37th, 39th minutes), the second-fastest in the ISL, had pulled the visitors level in the first-half after[Read More…]
Madrid: Real Madrid’s Croatian international midfielder Luka Modric has admitted that neither he nor his teammates expected both coach Zinedine Zidane and star Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo to leave the football club last summer. Zidane stepped down as coach after leading the club to three consecutive Champions League titles, while[Read More…]
Paris: Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) forward Neymar Jr on Tuesday hailed his coach Thomas Tuchel, just one day ahead of PSG’s home game against Red Star Belgrade in the UEFA Champions League group stage. At a pre-match press conference, the Brazil forward reiterated that working under the German coach has helped[Read More…]
Madrid, Oct 2 (IANS) Atletico Madrid held its final training session on Tuesday ahead of the upcoming UEFA Champions League clash against Belgium’s Club Brugge, but without Spanish winger Victor “Vitolo” Machin or Montenegrin defender Stefan Savic, both still recovering from injuries. Head coach Diego Pablo Simeone led the session[Read More…]
Croatian footballer Luka Modric was named the world’s best male player at the Best Fifa Football Awards here. The Real Madrid midfielder, 33, beat former team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo, now with Juventus, and Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah to the award, BBC reported on Monday. Modric won his third Champions League title in[Read More…]
Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo scored his first Serie A goal on Sunday, then went on to make it a brace as he led Juventus to a 2-1 win against Sassuolo, extending the Italian league leader’s winning streak. Ronaldo had not scored in his first three Serie A games with Juventus,[Read More…]
Continuing their five-game undefeated start to the 2018/2019 English Premier League (EPL) season, Liverpool rode on goals from midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum and striker Roberto Firmino to beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 here on Saturday. It was a scoreless match here at Wembley Stadium for both Liverpool winger Mohamed Salah and Tottenham[Read More…]
Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus), Croatia midfielder Luka Modric (Real Madrid) and Egypt forward Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) were shortlisted on Monday for The Best FIFA Men’s Player Award for 2018. The three finalists were announced at an event in London in the presence of football greats, including Peter Schmeichel, Sol Campbell, Nwankwo[Read More…]
A young football player died after an on-field collision at Nischintapur village in East Burdwan district, police said today. Mali, 18, collapsed on the field yesterday following an aerial challenge to save a goal, his teammates said. He was taken to the nearby Madhupur Primary Health Centre and later shifted[Read More…]
A 10 man U-20 Indian Football team registered a historic win of 2-1 against Argentina in the COTIF Cup, in Spain on 6 August. Coach Floyd Pinto describes as one of the “biggest days for Indian Football” as they shock the 6-time U20 World Cup champions Argentina. India stunned the[Read More…]
Moscow: England’s Harry Kane won the Golden Boot award while Croatia captain Luka Modric walked away with the Golden Ball of the 2018 FIFA World Cup here on Sunday. Apart from the duo, France’s 19-year-old striker Kylian Mbappe was the winner of the Young Player Award, while Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut[Read More…]
Final: France 4, Croatia 2 Croatia finally found a deficit it couldn’t overcome. On the 20th anniversary of its only other World Cup win, France snagged a second title. One game after Belgium complained about the French playing “anti-football” by packing it in on defense, the Les Bleus poured in four goals,[Read More…]
New Delhi: Germany, Spain, Argentina and Brazil had all come to Russia with expectations, but ultimately faced downfalls that had a myriad of reasons and it was soon evident that this world cup was a graveyard for the traditional players of global football with the eastern host city of Kazan occupying[Read More…]
Moscow: The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has ruled that Croatian defender Domagoj Vida would not be sanctioned following the investigation of the second video, in which he is seen holding what looks like a bottle of beer and yelling Glory to Ukraine! and Burn, Belgrade in Croatian. Last week, social media[Read More…]
Rome: Juventus’s online shop went down on Wednesday just hours after the Italian club released its new line of jerseys emblazoned with the number seven and the name of its latest signing, Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, who has completed a $131.46 million transfer from Real Madrid. The 33-year-old striker, who[Read More…]
Kazan (Russia): Neymar has described Brazil’s elimination from the FIFA World Cup as the saddest moment of his football career. The five-time world champions and tournament favourites exited football’s showpiece event after a 1-2 quarter-final loss to Belgium on Friday, reports Xinhua news agency. I can say that it’s the[Read More…]
Ivan Rakitic scored the winning penalty as Croatia beat Russia 4-3 in a shoot-out after a dramatic 2-2 draw on Saturday to end the World Cup hopes of the host nation and advance to a semi-final against England. Brazilian-born Mario Fernandes had kept Russia’s dream alive when he headed home[Read More…]
Kazan (Russia): Belgium overcame five-time world champions Brazil 2-1 here on Friday to book their place in the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup only for the second time after a gap of 32 years. Fernandinho’s own goal in the 13th minute and Kevin De Bruyne’s 31st-minute strike meant Belgium[Read More…]
Spain are out of the World Cup A terrific defensive effort by Russia, who had a plan to defend with five at the back, three battlers, and then take what they could get on the break. Spain had all the ball, and made well over a thousand passes but so what?[Read More…]
Sochi (Russia): The captain of the Uruguayan soccer team, Diego Godin, has said that his team can beat anyone when strikers like Edinson Cavani and Luis Suarez reach the level that they have shown at the World Cup in Russia. When they are like this we can beat anyone, said[Read More…]
Samara (Russia): World Cup favourites Brazil continue their campaign for the 2018 World Cup here on Monday against a Mexican side which stated their campaign brilliantly before coming dangerously close to elimination. Brazil produced their best display of the tournament in beating Serbia 2-0 to secure their place in the[Read More…]
Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal are heading home after a brace from Edinson Cavani secured Uruguay a place in the World Cup quarter-finals. There have been all manner of arresting goals scored in this tournament but a pair of centre-forwards combining to convert what was effectively a 100-yard one-two for the opening[Read More…]
Dreams can endure only so long before they are overwhelmed by reality – and there are few realities quite so brutally uncompromising as the pace and finishing of Kylian Mbappé, who scored twice and won a penalty in France’s 4-3 win. After a grim trudge through the group stage, France,[Read More…]
Moscow: Brazil eliminated Serbia with a 2-0 victory as the five-time world champions entered the FIFA World Cup pre-quarterfinals by topping the Group E here on Wednesday. Goals from Paulinho (36th minute) and Thiago Silva (68th minute) gave the South American powerhouse an easy victory which took their points tally[Read More…]