Candid Football Conversations returns with me, Arunava Chaudhuri, giving my thoughts on the financial troubles that the AIFF is facing and raise the question about how they will pay Brazil and Uruguay the remainder of their fees.
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Candid Football Conversations returns with me, Arunava Chaudhuri, giving my thoughts what the lessons for Indian Football, be it the AIFF, Blue Tigers and fans should be from the matches against Panama, Brazil and Uruguay.
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At the final whistle in Bengaluru, the Indian players clenched their fists and embraced after holding Panama 1-1. Days later in Kolkata, Khalid Jamil and Carlo Ancelotti embraced on a press conference podium before India faced Brazil. On the final night, 37,307 spectators roared as Anirudh Thapa equalised against Uruguay. …
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Candid Football Conversations returns with me, Arunava Chaudhuri, giving my thoughts the Indian Football men’s national team losing heavily 1-6 to Uruguay at the Saltlake Stadium in Kolkata on Tuesday night.
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Anirudh Thapa reached the loose ball first, guided it beyond Uruguay goalkeeper Thiago Cardozo and turned towards 37,307 spectators roaring at the sight of India level with Uruguay. For a brief spell on Tuesday, the Blue Tigers had given the two-time world champions a contest. Lightning halted it soon afterwards. …
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Candid Football Conversations returns with me, Arunava Chaudhuri, giving my thoughts the Indian Football men’s national team set to face Uruguay at the Saltlake Stadium in Kolkata on Tuesday night.
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Diego Forlán remembers India differently from most visiting national-team coaches. He remembers it from inside the dressing room. He remembers travelling across the country with Mumbai City FC, playing in the Indian Super League, coming to Kolkata and seeing stands filled with people who cared deeply about football. Nearly a …
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Akash Mishra did not sleep on Saturday night. The Brazil game was over, the photographs had been taken, and the occasion that Indian football had waited so long for was already slipping into history. But for Mishra, there was little romance left once the final whistle had gone. India had …
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Two matches down, one to go. India’s run against World Cup opposition reaches its final act on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, when two-time world champions Uruguay await at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata. The match will kick off at 19:30 IST and will be broadcast on the Sony …
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Candid Football Conversations returns with me, Arunava Chaudhuri, giving my thoughts in an Indian Football Round-Up to discuss the AIFF SGBM, the Blue Tigers after the Brazil game and before the Uruguay match, and the broacast of the MG ISL.
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