The AIFF is set to make a push to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to allow Indian-origin players and Overseas Citizens of India to be allowed to represent the country. Also, East Bengal’s participation in the next season of the Indian Super League is in doubt as the …
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All India Football Federation president Praful Patel joined National Team players across all age-groups today, May 15 via a video conference to get a feel of their well-being during the lockdown phase. National Men’s Team players including captain Sunil Chhetri, Sandesh Jhingan, Anirudh Thapa and Amrinder Singh were in attendance …
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“After lunch or dinner Chhetri-bhai comes over and shares his experiences with us and I always look forward to it.” Jamshedpur FC and India’s promising young midfielder, Amarjit Singh Kiyam, talks about his first time in the Senior National Team camp and how he felt sharing the dressing room and …
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Ask any player, and he will always tell you about his idol. Termed as the ‘Superwall’ of India, National Team goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu states that he has always idolised ‘Spiderman’ Subrata Paul, and is “lucky” to have been able to train and watch Subrata from close – both on …
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Sadly two of the biggest legends of Indian football, P.K. Banerjee and Chuni Goswami, died just 41 days apart in the last few weeks. I go back two decades to my early days in Indian football to the month of July in the year 2000, when I first met both …
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All India Football Federation president Praful Patel chaired AIFF’s Executive Committee Meeting held via video conferencing today, May 13. Besides Senior Vice President Subrata Dutta, AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das, Vice Presidents Manvendra Singh, Larsing Ming, KMI Mather, Subhash Chopra, and AIFF Treasurer ZA Thakur – all other Executive Committee …
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Did you know that Amarjit Singh Kiyam and Jeakson Singh are cousins? Amarjit chats with Superpower Football’s Ankush Sharma on the bond the two brothers share and how they want to get to best level, together!
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The discussion on the inclusion of footballers of Indian origin is a more than two decades long one and it has been always a controversial one. I have always supported the cause of OCIs/PIOs in Team India and within Indian football, and I recall starting the topic 21 years ago …
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India and Bengaluru FC goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu said, “People close to me tell me I am like my mum, Harjit Kaur. My mother was a police officer. She is hard-working and determined and I watched her excel in her field for so long. She had a big, big contribution …
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Blue Tigers midfielder Anirudh Thapa hailed ‘Captain Cool’ Mahendra Singh Dhoni, stating that the former Indian cricket team captain takes every opportunity to boost the morale of him and his teammates whenever he’s around. Thapa took to the official Indian Football Team Instagram handle on Friday (May 9), to answer multiple questions …
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