Amidst all the debates over gender equality, a remote village of Mizoram, Champhai – some handshaking distance away from the Indo-Myanmar border is silently taking a firm stride forward towards establishing gender equality through Golden Baby Leagues. “We started the Golden Baby Leagues with mixed-gender matches and it had a …
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The Football Association of Odisha (FAO) will be conducting AIFF ‘C’, AIFF ‘D’ & AIFF ‘E’ license coaching courses in the month’s of January and February 2021. Interested candidates are asked by the FAO to register their name with the Football Association of Odisha. In order to register their name, …
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He’s known as the ‘Black Pearl’ in Kerala. In Bengal, he was ‘Kalo Harin’ (black buck). From the 1980s to the early 2000s, Vijayan was the star of Indian football. Speaking to Malayala Manorama Chief of Bureau (Kochi) Antony John, Vijayan talks about his rise, his idols, contemporaries and successors, …
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SPF’s very own Johnson Kanjirathingal picks his top 5 Indian coaches who are currently in the Indian footballing scene. The list includes Derrick Pereira (FC Goa), Khalid Jamil (NorthEast United FC), Thangboi Singto (Hyderabad FC), Pradhyum Reddy and Syed Sabir Pasha (Chennaiyin FC). Who would you have on your list?
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All India Football Federation president Praful Patel chaired the AIFF’s Executive Committee Meeting held via video conferencing on Thursday, October 22. Besides Senior Vice-President Subrata Dutta, AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das, Vice-Presidents Manvendra Singh, Larsing Ming, KMI Mather and all other Executive Committee members attended the meeting. Leave of absence …
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In an exclusive interview with Malayala Manorama Chief of Bureau – Kochi, Antony John, Indian football legend I.M. Vijayan talks about his rise, his idols, contemporaries and successors, his acting career and more. This will be a three-part series where Vijayan traces his journey across Indian football, cinema and stardom. …
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Discovery Plus, India’s first aggregated real-life entertainment streaming app, is launching an 8 episodic docuseries “Matchday – Inside FC Barcelona” through which viewers can enjoy exclusive never-seen-before footage of FC Barcelona squad during the 2018/19 season. For the first time in India, football fans can witness the everyday lives of …
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Dan Abrahams, an eminent sports psychologist based in the UK, stressed on the importance of ‘game face’ to get better with time while addressing Indian coaches at an online coaching conference organized by the AIFF. “If you ask players what they want to achieve, 99% of them can’t answer preciously. …
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STATSports and the Association of Indian Football Coaches (AIFC) have joined forces to offer thousands of Indian coaches a new four Module/CPD Course Sports Technology Certificate in a drive to improve football in India. The agreement was formed off the back of two hugely successful performance webinars held jointly by …
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All India Football Federation and AMITY University joined hands to organise two webinar sessions for the BPED as well as the MPED students on Tuesday (October 13) and Monday (October 19) respectively. Hundred-odd students attended the course to get the understanding of the flagship project of the AIFF – Golden …
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