Former Indian National Team captain Gouramangi Singh Moirangthem stressed on the “importance of utilising the little opportunities that central defenders get” to go bombing forward on set-pieces, stating that his International goals gave him “a lot of confidence”. In a live chat with AIFF TV, the former India defender reminisced …
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Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam once famously said, “Dream is not the thing you see in sleep. It is the one which doesn’t let you sleep.” In my case, I could not sleep after fulfilling a dream I held since childhood. Every footballer aspires of winning trophies for the Nation and …
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In a candid chat with AIFF TV, Blue Tigers goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu who spent three years with Norwegian top-division club Stabaek Football from 2014-17, explained how a player has to “start from scratch” to rise up the ranks at a club abroad. “There are a lot of sacrifices which …
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Former India FIFA U-17 World Cup team captain and current Blue Tigers midfielder Amarjit Singh Kiyam reflected upon his days in junior football, and felt that the exposure tours made them fearless. In a chat with AIFF TV, Amarjit reflected: “We were lucky to have played so many quality exposure …
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420 Grams came up yesterday, August 30 with a special episode featuring legendary Indian footballers Bhaichung Bhutia and Renedy Singh.
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Amarjit Singh, who captained India in 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup – India feels the exposure in the I-League helped him and all the entire Indian squad of the FIFA U-17 World Cup mature into “better players”. In a live chat with AIFF TV, Amarjit labelled the I-League as the …
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has received the necessary bid documents from the five Member Associations, which had expressed an interest in hosting the 2027 AFC Asian Cup, ahead of the stipulated deadline. The All India Football Federation (AIFF), the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI), the …
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Moments after Sandesh Jhingan became the 27th Indian Footballer to receive the Arjuna Award, the towering central defender in a freewheeling interview to AIFF Media spoke on a variety of topics ranging from his childhood memory of the Arjuna Award, the virtual ceremony, his “proud parents”, significance of the Award, …
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Indian national team midfielder and ex-captain of the Indian side at the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, Amarjit Singh Kiyam joins AIFF TV as he talks about leading India at the FIFA U-17 World Cup, his progress into the senior team, along with many interesting anecdotes and inside stories!
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It’s a perennial debate and it will stay like that for quite some time, or maybe, forever. But even as most dribble past that million-dollar question on the majestic trio of Indian Football – IM VIjayan, Bhaichung Bhutia and Sunil Chhetri – former Indian National Team Captain Shanmugam Venkatesh, one …
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