“Remove the turban or you can’t play” Was what a fifteen-year-old Sikh football player in Italy was told. During a youth football game in the province of Brescia, between USD Montirone and Real Eufemi a few weeks ago, Gurpartap Singh of USD Montirone was instructed to take off…

Influential people should have a better foresight of consequences their apparent statements could have before commenting on issues that they do not understand. Some of them are fascinated by something they deem different. And then they tend to drift behind everything that is there. However, arrogant/ignorant statements could…

While most of us were engulfed in one or more of the many games from last night’s World Cup qualifiers, memories from that one night in 2007 was rekindled in a U-21 game between England and Serbia. Most of us figured that Serbia would have learnt from the…

If you haven’t heard of it by now, you are missing out. We are all familiar with the fact that each individual country participating in football has it’s own nickname. Brazil goes by names like Seleção or the Samba boys, Nigeria by Super Eagles, Italy by Azzurri, and…