The dominant emotion while watching the Asif Kapadia film Diego Maradona was slack-jawed astonishment.
It wasn’t about the details of what was revealed. For my generation, Maradona’s career and afterlife had been followed to obsessive degree, long before the age of the internet. Newspaper articles, magazines found street side or in libraries, later on, a few books. The story arc of Maradona, mesmeric typhoon of the 1986 World Cup to the deranged spectator on the balcony of the St Petersburg…
The dominant emotion while watching the Asif Kapadia film Diego Maradona was slack-jawed astonishment.
It wasn’t about the details of what was revealed. For my generation, Maradona’s career and afterlife had been followed to obsessive degree, long before the age of the internet. Newspaper articles, magazines found street side or in libraries, later on, a few books. The story arc of Maradona, mesmeric typhoon of the 1986 World Cup to the deranged spectator on the balcony of the St Petersburg…
The dominant emotion while watching the Asif Kapadia film Diego Maradona was slack-jawed astonishment.
It wasn’t about the details of what was revealed. For my generation, Maradona’s career and afterlife had been followed to obsessive degree, long before the age of the internet. Newspaper articles, magazines found street side or in libraries, later on, a few books. The story arc of Maradona, mesmeric typhoon of the 1986 World Cup to the deranged spectator on the balcony of the St Petersburg…
At some time on Thursday, September 5, a football team beset by anxiety and anguish will land in a city and a state completely transformed.
Real Kashmir FC return to Srinagar after a month spent on football duty, cut off from their families and their people, trying to keep their minds on the game but dogged by the uncertainty of what lies ahead. In 2018, RKFC became Indian football’s new fairy tale, the first team from the troubled state to qualify for the I-League first division. Today, they are,…
A science question to begin — what contains very little mass but occupies a very large space? Answer: on the periodic table, it’s hydrogen, the lightest and smallest element that makes up 75% of the universe.
In Indian football, Sunil Chhetri.
The captain of the Indian football team has his sport at his feet and also holds its centre together. In his 18 years in competitive football, Chhetri has moved from being the “next Baichung” to carving out his own identity, travelling through clubs in Bengal…
More than 10,000 turned up to watch Real Kashmir make their I-League first-division home debut in Srinagar on Tuesday.
The All India Football Federation (AIFF) will hold its next two I-League fixtures in Srinagar on December 5 and 11, despite re…
FIFA President Gianni Infantino feels France against Croatia in will be a unique World Cup final and reveals the tournament has shown that small nations no longer exist.
ESPN shows the agony and ecstasy of both England and Croatia in a sketch as Croatia advance on to the World Cup final.
Actor Will Smith has some fun with the international media at the World Cup as he shouts out which countries each are from.
Various ESPN FC correspondents and fans weigh in on VAR and its impact at the World Cup in the latest episode of Project Russia.
The ESPN FC boys dissect what went wrong in England’s semifinal loss to Croatia.
France’s Antoine Griezmann insists achieving his childhood dream of winning the World Cup is all he cares about and not whether he scores or wins personal accolades.
Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba believes England has a bright future and feels Kylian Mbappe is capable of being a future Ballon d’Or winner. Fiendish World Cup football fans, celebrate. Russia 2018 has not disappointed us philistines. In the first two weeks, as it raced on match after match, we heard from the experts decrying the bad standards when compared to the Champions League. When its tread became more deliberate during its hairy final ten days, we were told Europe has now taken over and regimented footballing culture around the world – urchins are being plucked out of favellas and bazaars by uber-efficient European academies who…
Real Kashmir became the first team from Kashmir in the history of Indian football to enter the first division of the I-League
On a night of torrential rain, rumbling thunder and dramatic lightning, thousands of miles from home, Real Kashmir FC, …
Under-13 boys at a summer camp, the first project organised by the newly formed Guwahati City FC held the Guwahati University stadium, Jalukbari. The camp was attended by 165 boys from the region, and a camper each from Bhutan and Chattisgarh.
On Wednesday, April 5, an AFC Cup match will be held at the IGA Stadium in Guwahati, Assam. The home club is not Assamese but Aizawl FC. Other than geography, there is little that is out of the ordinary in Aizawl FC travelling nearly 500km out of Aizawl to Guwahati for a ‘home’ game. AFC criteria require matches be played on natural turf and maintaining a top-quality grass pitch in Mizoram is close to impossible.
The footballing incongruity lies close inside that new ‘home’: Assam, the region’s…
NorthEast United’s Rehenesh (orange) sent off in an ISL match against Kerala Blasters. One referee spoke about how officials need to exercise discretion when handing out red cards.
Indian football’s Twin Towers (yes, that’s a stretched metaphor) – the Indian Super League (ISL) and the I-League – share little. Not finances, not publicity, not quality of television pictures and from this season onwards, not even players. Except 2017-18 has them in total sync, with vociferous certainty, about one part of their business – Indian referees.
In the ISL, coaches of two teams and an assistant coach have been banned for matches and hit with six-figure fines for criticising referees…