I don’t exactly remember the date. We were camping in Bengaluru and the next evening we were to play our home-match against Macau, where a victory was supposed to earn India a ticket to the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. We finished practice early and rushed back to our rooms to …
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We have seen some absolute stunners in the #15YearsOfSC11. Let’s relive some of the jaw-dropping goals from Sunil Chhetri for Team India!
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India’s senior men’s football team will, theoretically, play Qatar on October 8 at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar. The next two FIFA World Cup qualifiers are to be played in Bangladesh on November 12 and at home against Afghanistan on November 17. India are pretty much out of the running …
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As the Indian Team landed in Pakistan in June 2005 for a Friendly series, all the stakes were heavily loaded against Sunil Chhetri. He was 20 and yet to make his International debut. It was an away series, that too against Pakistan. Moreover, he had an injury concern – all …
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Here is a look at all the groups in the joint 2022 FIFA World Cup / 2023 AFC Asian Cup – Asian qualifiers with match day’s seven to 10 still to play.
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It was a fateful morning some 17 years ago when I walked into the Mohun Bagan ground where a bunch of young players had gathered for club trials. It was a common feature as the club always wanted to Catch ’em young. And from a distance when I looked at …
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Sandesh Jhingan may be one of the hottest properties in Indian Football at the moment, and with him being a free player, the talk of the town every day is speculating his next move to a prospective club. But it was not long back when Jhingan had got rejected by …
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC), in consultation with FIFA, has announced the proposed match dates for the remaining matches of Round 2 in the 2022 FIFA World Cup – Qatar and 2023 AFC Asian Cup – China, Asian Qualifiers, which were originally scheduled to take place in March and June …
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Members of the Senior National Women’s Team expressed their delight after India was announced as the host of the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup finals, and spoke about how the mega-event will provide a further boost to the sport in the nation. Head coach Maymol Rocky stated that she is …
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The Asian Football Confederation has intimated the All India Football Federation about the new match schedules for the Round 2 of the joint 2022 FIFA World Cup / 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualifiers. In a letter, the AFC mentioned, “After several months of anxious waiting and now with the improved …
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