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XtraTime shows here footage of Team India’s gym training sessions in their preparations ahead of the joint 2022 FIFA World Cup / 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualifiers in Doha, Qatar.
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India’s Sandesh Jhingan: We need to brave & admit that we haven’t played to our potential!
Sandesh Jhingan’s return to the World Cup qualifiers is more than an assurance for everyone. The leader in Sandesh had missed the last three matches of the 2022 FIFA World Cup – Qatar qualifiers owing to an unfortunate injury. In a candid interview, the Arjuna Awardee speaks at length about …
Read More »India’s Gurpreet Singh Sandhu: The self-belief was immense, we were desperate & backed each other up!
Being in Qatar brings out a different feeling. It was here in 2011 that I first came over for the AFC Asian Cup. I was 18 then. Then I was here again in 2011 some months later when I toured with the Indian U-23 team for the Olympic Qualifiers. On …
Read More »420 Grams VIDEO LIVE: India vs Qatar Tactical Preview with Renedy Singh, Richard Hood & Darren Caldeira!
Former India captain Renedy Singh, Bengaluru United FC head coach Richard Hood and recently retired I-League and ISL midfielder Darren Caldeira talk tactics ahead on India vs Qatar on June 3.
Read More »India’s Suresh Singh: I am a coach’s player, ready for any role!
Nicknamed the ‘beast’, Suresh Singh believes that the role of a player is to execute to perfection the role assigned to him by the coach. In a freewheeling interview, Suresh speaks at length about being a coach’s player, his favourite ‘box-to-box role’, playing in different positions, the journey since the …
Read More »Superpower Football – Half Volley: Coach Stimac to leave India soon? East Bengal to be replaced in ISL?
The AIFF have extended national team gaffer Igor Stimac’s contract by just 3 months which possibly signals Stimac’s potential exit. The federation is expected to convene once again and take a decision on this, weighing the results of the Blue Tigers’ games in the FIFA World Cup qualifiers! Do you …
Read More »420 Grams VIDEO LIVE: Igor Stimac on thin ice, Isac Doru sacked!
On May 28, the technical committee of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) extended the contract of Indian football team coach Igor Stimac (which ran out on May 15) by three months. The contract of AIFF’s technical director, Isac Doru, was not renewed. 420 Grams’ Jaydeep Basu and Arjun Pandit …
Read More »India’s Igor Stimac: Difficult circumstances to play football!
As the Blue Tigers prepare in Doha for their forthcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup – Qatar qualifiers which are slated to take place from June 3 onwards, National Team Head Coach Igor Stimac stressed on the health parameters which are defining international football during the course of the pandemic. “These …
Read More »AIFF clarifies India preparations in Doha, thanks Qatar!
There has been some misleading media narration over the team’s preparation in Doha wherein Head Coach Mr. Igor Stimac’s comments have been misinterpreted. The team management including the players, the Head Coach, the support staff along with the AIFF are grateful to the Qatar FA for their cooperation in their …
Read More »AIFF Technical Committee extends Stimac contract, takes other decisions!
Henry Menezes, Deputy Chairman, Technical Committee, All India Football Federation chaired the AIFF Technical Committee meeting via video conferencing today, May 28. Shyam Thapa, the current Chairman of the Committee, and also a former India International, could not attend owing to illness. Kushal Das, General Secretary, AIFF and Abhishek Yadav, …
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