Continued from part 1…. Bengaluru FC (P9 W4 D2 L3) Riding on heroics from their debut season, a pre-season in the pink away from ISL and their Federation Cup triumph in January, BFC were expected to pick up from where they had left off last year. On the…
Football cringes at the news of a team disbanding, particularly if it owns a significant historical factor. The news on one of Kolkata’s most legendary club Mohammedan Sporting dissolving saw people from across the football spectrum pay tribute to the Black Panthers who, at one point, carried Indian…
These days, any good news regarding the Indian football is cause for celebration. While the football fraternity was torn between two spectrum of events across the globe, the loss of the man who fought against tyranny and injustice in his own way and the other being the excitement…
Representatives from the All India Football Federation were in Dubai last weekend floating a plan in an attempt to garner investment in its league system from the huge Indian Diaspora that exists here. This if successful would make way for two new clubs to be added to the…
Here is something that you do not see quite often. A video of 6-yr-old kid (5 at the time this video was uploaded) named Rasheed, hailing from a small town called Mambaad in Kerala, India, juggling the ball. Why is this so compelling? Few reasons really. Firstly, this…
Few more days till the end of 2011. Time to look back at what the Indian national team has achieved to date since my last post earlier in August. Where did I leave off? Fundamentally, mentioning the idea of watching the Bhangra boys, as they are known, playing…
Argentina play Venezuela today in a friendly game. Nothing new between the two countries from the same continent right? Well, the only difference is that they will be facing each other in one of the craziest football passionate city of Kolkata in India. Yes in India. The match…
As most of us would have noticed by now, Football is not a sport that us South East Asians do well in. The sport is probably a few spots behind the obvious fanaticism of Cricket, Tennis, Volleyball, Badminton, Boxing, Kite flying, and gilli-danda (the unique sport that involves…