The Sunderbans in West Bengal, are well known to be a hotbed for footballing activities. However, it is also one of the areas that is most vulnerable to natural calamities like cyclones. After the Yaas Cyclone ravaged a number of areas in the Sunderbans last week, West Bengal’s football governing …
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Minerva Academy FC sponsored a full day of special meals and distributed rations to the unprivileged people living on the streets of the Chennai suburbs. The club collaborated with a local social worker, Shyam, and his team to identify the places and people in need of help. On May 21, …
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As XtraTime reports, fans of the Kolkata big three are once more supporting people in the pandemic and also due to the Yass cyclone.
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At a time when the challenges posed by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are felt throughout the world of football, the club and academies are also struggling to survive financially. To support and show solidarity with the club and academies, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) has decided to waive …
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The Football Association of Odisha (FAO) with profound grief and shock, the Office Bearers and its Members in deep sorrow and condolence on the sad and untimely demise of Nanda Kishore Patnaik who breathed his last yesterday night at around 2am at Bhubaneswar. He was 65 years old. He had …
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As XtraTime reports, the IFA (West Bengal) has come forward to support a Yass cyclone effected Sundarbans village, which has a youth academy for football.
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Savio Medeira, Head of AIFF Coach Education and interim Technical Director chaired a meeting with the heads of different departments of the All India Football Federation to discuss the finer points about the revalidation initiative for coaches, who will be required to revalidate their coaching licenses in the future. The …
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On May 28, the technical committee of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) extended the contract of Indian football team coach Igor Stimac (which ran out on May 15) by three months. The contract of AIFF’s technical director, Isac Doru, was not renewed. 420 Grams’ Jaydeep Basu and Arjun Pandit …
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Henry Menezes, Deputy Chairman, Technical Committee, All India Football Federation chaired the AIFF Technical Committee meeting via video conferencing today, May 28. Shyam Thapa, the current Chairman of the Committee, and also a former India International, could not attend owing to illness. Kushal Das, General Secretary, AIFF and Abhishek Yadav, …
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Football Delhi, the sport’s governing body in the national capital, will run a campaign focussed on mental health from May 29 to August 15, seeking to address the concerns of those facing severe mental health challenges amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The name of the campaign is ‘Mind Goals’. Since the …
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