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NNIS spoke to Indian football fans on what do they expect from the Indian national team in the new year going into the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.
Read More »VIDEO – NNIS: Fans to support India at 2019 AFC Asian Cup!
Gouramangi Singh: Hosts UAE will be our toughest challenge!
Ahead of India’s participation in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup – UAE, former Indian captain Gouramangi Singh and scorer of India’s first goal in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup against Bahrain, dubbed the AFC Asian Cup as the biggest challenge in football in Asia. In an exclusive interview, Gouramangi talks …
Read More »VIDEO – NNIS: Shaji Prabhakaran – Oman friendly will be good practice for India!
The Indian football team will take on Oman in a friendly on December 27 before getting into tournament mode in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. Football Delhi chief Dr. Shaji Prabhakaran believes the friendly against Oman will help as a practice match before Sunil Chhetri and his boys take on …
Read More »VIDEO – DW: Can Sandesh Jhingan & India conquer Asia?
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 …
Read More »Former Asian All-Star Atanu Bhattacharya: We can expect miracles from the Blue Tigers!
Former Asian All-Star Goalkeeper Atanu Bhattacharya who was a part of India’s squad in the AFC Asian Cup in 1984 feels the current Indian team squad “looks confident” and can “pull off some miracles” in the forthcoming 2019 AFC Asian Cup. “What I really like about the current setup is …
Read More »VIDEO – NNIS: AIFF’s Praful Patel – Asian Dream needs to become a reality!
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.”
Read More »VIDEO – NNIS: India turned down Iran friendly offer!
Indian football coach Stephen Constantine revealed India refused to play a friendly against Iran as an earlier game had been fixed on December 27 against Oman. The India head coach explained how friendly matches and practice matches are scheduled between teams. India play Oman on December 27 in what will …
Read More »Team India land in Abu Dhabi ahead of 2019 AFC Asian Cup!
A day after their new skin was unveiled the Blue Tigers landed safely in Abu Dhabi today, December 20, seventeen days prior to the kick-off of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup in the UAE. The Indian contingent was welcomed at the Airport by officers from Indian Embassy. Some fans had …
Read More »FIFA World Rankings: India stay 97th, Belgium stay No. 1!
Earlier in the day, the latest FIFA ‘Coca Cola’ Men’s World Ranking were released by the world football governing body and in the December rankings, India stay 97th position behind Estonia, but ahead of Faroe Islands; while 2018 FIFA World Cup semifinalists Belgium stays No. 1. India have 1240 points, …
Read More »Buy the new Indian national team jersey by Six5Six!
The All India Football Federation (AIFF) has announced Six5Six as the new kit sponsors of the Indian national team and the new home and away kits were presented to the public during a special launch event at the Le Méridien hotel in New Delhi on Wednesday, December 19. The new …
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