Tag Archives: India Women

India Women’s Maymol Rocky: Our journey has just started!

Indian Women’s National Team Head Coach Maymol Rocky addressed participants on the second day of the ongoing International Virtual Coaching Conference organized by the All India Football Federation (AIFF), speaking on the topic ‘Women’s Football In India’ – where she talked about the progress made by the Indian Senior National …

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Gurpreet & Sanju declared winners of AIFF Player of the Year Awards!

Indian National Team goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, and Sanju are the winners of the 2019-20 AIFF Men’s Footballer of the Year Award, and the 2019-20 AIFF Women’s Footballer of the Year Award respectively. This is the first time Gurpreet has received this prestigious award, and in the process he became …

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India Forwards together: Manisha – Incredible to learn from Bala-di!

At just 18 years of age, Manisha is quite a versatile attacker. A pacey, strong forward with a powerful shot, she has been making rapid progress at the Indian Senior level. And a key factor for all of that are inputs from none other than the mercurial Bala Devi, who …

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FIFA Women’s World Rankings: India stay 55th, USA retain top spot!

Yesterday, the latest FIFA Women’s World Ranking were released by the world football governing body and in the third rankings of 2020, India stay in 55th position alongside Northern Ireland behind South Africa and Belarus, but ahead of Venezuela. India have 1432 points, the same as last quarter and they …

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Maymol Rocky: Introduction of strength training has worked wonders!

Indian Women’s Team Head Coach Maymol Rocky has attributed the rapid improvement in her team to the “introduction of strength training” into the regular training regime of the players. Speaking about it at length on AIFF TV, Maymol referred to the period when she first introduced it in the team. …

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AIFF TV: Live Q&A session with India Women’s head coach Maymol Rocky!

In a freewheeling chat, women’s national team head coach Maymol Rocky talks about her early days, the rapid growth of women’s football in our country and the impact of upcoming 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup in India, along with many more interesting topics!

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India Team’s: Celebrating special bonding on & off the pitch!

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. But if you haven’t learnt friendship, you haven’t learnt anything,” were immortal words from ‘The Greatest’ – Muhammed Ali. Anirudh Thapa and Germanpreet Singh, both Blue Tigers, football has been the bonding factor. The best of buddies, quite inseparable – …

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Sunil Chhetri: Keep no regrets in mind while playing the AFC Women’s Asian Cup!

Blue Tigers captain Sunil Chhetri urged the Indian Women’s Team to “leave no stone unturned”, and start preparing for the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup – India from now itself. It was in June 2020 that AFC granted India the right to host the coveted Continental tournament in two years’ …

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Players & Coaches hail Odisha Sports’ invaluable support to Indian Football!

It was in 2018 that All India Football Federation (AIFF) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the State Government of Odisha which has seen a number of National Teams – U-15, U-17, Indian Arrows and even the Senior Women’s Team being hosted by the state and gain access …

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