On the pitch at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, the team debates the needs, the benefits and the problems of running two simultaneous “top flight” leagues in India. Outnumbered, but not out fought, Arjun Pandit discusses the benefits and the improved quality the Indian Super League (ISL) has …
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Asian Football Confederation General Secretary Dato Windsor John isn’t much surprised with India’s performance in the ongoing 2019 AFC Asian Cup in the UAE. In an exclusive interview, Dato Windsor speaks at length about AFC being “well aware of the of the remarkable progress of football in the country over …
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The Indian cricket and football teams achieved historic feats over the weekend and Sportswallah took to the streets to find out if the people were aware of BOTH of them or not!
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January 6, 2019; the date will from now always be remembered as a historic day for Indian football and the Indian national team! Why? Simply because the Blue Tigers deservingly trashed Thailand 4-1 in their 2019 AFC Asian Cup – Group A opener at the Al Nahyan Stadium in Abu …
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As XtraTime reports from Kolkata, the I-League clubs have come together to fight for their rights but not all clubs turned up, some have stayed away.
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The AIFF has announced to the state associations the venues and dates for the zonal rounds of the National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy 2018/19. As has become norm over the last few seasons, India has been divided into five zones – North, South, East, West and North-East with the …
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A massive stir has been created on social media and amongst I-League clubs after Star Sports announced that 30 of the remaining 2018/19 season I-League matches would not be broadcast. This means that in this season, the 2018/19 I-League, a total of 80 out of 110 matches are to be …
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The All India Football Federation (AIFF) continues to receive enthusiastic response from potential Baby League Operators from across the country. AIFF has received applications to organise around 520 (five hundred and twenty) different age category leagues across India from various league operators. These applicants include private individuals, schools, stand alone …
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The India’s football team has made the FIFA’s top 100, the ‘Blue Tigers’ have passed the Faroe Islands to become the world’s 97th strongest football nation. Really? Should a country of 1.3 billion be competing with a nation the size of an Indian village? The AFC Asian Cup 2019 can …
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Ahead of the Indian National Team’s participation in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, the AIFF president Praful Patel termed India’s fourth participation in the AFC Asian Cup as a “precursor to India’s goal to achieve a berth in the FIFA World Cup by 2026.”
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