Berlin: football federation president Wolfgang Niersbach has termed FIFA’s payment to Ireland over a controversial refereeing decision as “a joke”. Ireland lost a playoff match for the 2010 World Cup qualification after an infamous handball by French striker Thierry Henry. World football’s governing body FIFA on Thursday admitted paying the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) […]
Dublin: Sepp Blatter, who recently resigned as FIFA president, served as a board member for a fictitious company founded in Ireland in 2001 in order to profit from its tax benefits and to launder millions of euros to the headquarters in Switzerland, a media report has claimed. The Irish Independent reported on Thursday that Blatter […]
Madrid: Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid’s Portuguese forward, has been named the La Liga player of the month for May 2015, undoubtedly thanks to scoring three hat-tricks in three games out of the team’s four clashes last month. Despite Ronaldo’s nine goals, May was the month when Real Madrid failed to catch up with leading Barcelona, […]
Rio de Janerio: Brazilian soccer great Ronaldo has called for the resignation of the country’s football confederation (CBF) chief Marco Polo Del Nero, a media report said on Thursday. The comments came a day after Sepp Blatter announced he would step down as president of world football’s governing body FIFA amid a widening corruption scandal, […]
Jakarta: India’s world No.1 shuttler Saina Nehwal defeated Thailand’s Nichaon Jindapon in straight sets in the first round while her Indian teammate P.V. Sindhu crashed out of the $800,000 Indonesia Open Superseries Premier, losing to Chinese Taipei’s Hsu Ya Ching here on Wednesday. Also advancing to the second round are Parupalli Kashyap, who ousted Tanongsak […]
Zurich: FIFA president Sepp Blatter yesterday announced he will step down from world football’s governing body amid a corruption scandal, and also called for an extraordinary congress “as early as possible” at which a successor will be elected. The Swiss announced his decision at a hastily-arranged press conference yesterday after his secretary-general Jerome Valcke was […]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today extended former captain Ravi Shastri's role as the national team director till the end of the Bangladesh tour
Barcelona: Barcelona Argentine star Leo Messi underlined that his teammates “have suffered a lot” to finally reach to the UEFA Champions League final on last Sunday against Juventus in Berlin, and so he is thinking only about this clash. “It is a Champions League final and we have suffered a lot to get here. We […]
Mumbai: Former batting stars Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and V.V.S. Laxman were on Monday included in the newly-formed cricket advisory committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur took to Twitter to confirm the news. “Gr8 start to the day! Conference call w/ legends @sachin_rt @VVSLaxman281 & Saurav […]
Bengaluru/Kolkata: With just four minutes left on the clock, Nigerian defender Bello Rasaq headed in to hold defending champion Bengaluru FC 1-1 at home and propel Mohun Bagan to the national league title their fourth, and the first after a long wait of 13 years. It all seemed over for the green and maroon brigade […]
Beijing: Re-elected FIFA president Sepp Blatter blasted at the tactics used by the US anti-corruption investigators, saying the arrests two days ago were timed to interfere with Zurich congress, a media report said today. Seven out of 14 senior officials and sports marketing executives charged by the US prosecutors of corruption and bribery were arrested […]
Bengaluru: Defending champions Bengaluru FC face their biggest test yet when they take on leaders Mohun Bagan in a must-win and high-stakes game of the Hero I-League here on Sunday. Only a win will help Bengaluru to keep the title while Mohun Bagan, who enjoy a two-point advantage (38 to 36), require just a draw […]
Mumbai: Batting legend Sunil Gavaskar said luck played a big part earlier in his cricketing career which spanned over 16 years from making his Test debut in March, 1971 to playing his last One-Day-International (ODI) in November, 1987. On the sidelines of the launch of former India opener Madhav Apte’s autobiography ‘As Luck Would Have […]
Dhaka: Young Indian golfer Khalin Joshi charged into contention with a six-under 65 to finish three shots behind leader Mardan Mamat of Singapore after the third round of the $300,000 Bangladesh Open at the Kurmitola Golf Club here on Friday. The 22-year-old Khalin chipped in for eagle on the 14th hole before missing two short […]
Paris: India’s Sania Mirza and her Brazilian partner Bruno Soares crashed out of the French Open after losing in the first round of the mixed doubles match yesterday. Germany’s Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer stunned the top-seeded Indo-Brazilian pair 6-2, 6-2 to enter the second round of the tournament. Groenefeld-Rojer showed their dominance right […]
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