This season ISL clubs are moving from being a franchise to a football team
The season that awaits Indian football, with the ISL and the I-League held concurrently, is expected to give the sport a new direction from the jungle of contradictions that AIFF had grown around itself, with two national leagues that looked and felt different. The 2017-18 Indian football season is to be the rumble in the jungle.
The ISL’s existence of celebrity-fronted franchises without genuine community engagement required reinvention. Now that the ISL is a four-month league featuring ten teams,…
This season ISL clubs are moving from being a franchise to a football team
The season that awaits Indian football, with the ISL and the I-League held concurrently, is expected to give the sport a new direction from the jungle of contradictions that AIFF had grown around itself, with two national leagues that looked and felt different. The 2017-18 Indian football season is to be the rumble in the jungle.
The ISL’s existence of celebrity-fronted franchises without genuine community engagement required reinvention. Now that the ISL is a four-month-long league featuring ten…
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Juan Miranda celebrates after scoring Spain’s first goal.
Abel Ruiz’s 90th minute penalty helped Spain squeak into the quarterfinals of the Under-17 World Cup with 2-1 win over France in Guwahati on Tuesday.
Emotional scenes followed in Guwahati at the end of the game, with the French players exhausted on the ground and the Spanish taking in the crowd’s appreciation. A defensive error by Oumar Solet caught a charging Jose Lara just inside the box, which resulted in the penalty. Spanish captain Abel Ruiz stepped up and finished emphatically from the…
The Chhangphut Ground in Champhai, Mizoram, will host the Young Legends League over six months from November.
Days before the kick-off of the biggest football tournament in India comes the announcement of the country’s longest-duration football league, which could mark a rethink of how India introduces its young to the sport. Make that very young.
The Young Legends League, comprising Under-12 five vs five matches, will be held over six months from November in one of India’s smallest but most energised footballing states – Mizoram, where the game is rooted in the community. It is the first concrete piece…
Italy’s Roberto Baggio missed his penalty during the shootout of the 1994 World Cup final against Brazil.
Disclaimer: I’m a World Cup junkie.
Yes, it is a philistine’s life, operating around a languid quadrennial cycle, mostly disconnected from club football other than accidental viewings of Champions League finals. This may seem like heresy, because football at its very heart is umbilically linked to communities rather than large nation states. (But think about it — isn’t the “Republic of Mancunia” a nation state in itself?)
There are excuses for such deviant behavior, like not belonging to Kolkata…
In India, it is the price that determines how much the fan is willing to spend for a ‘genuine’ article.
A couple of weeks ago, the official, authorized Indian football jersey showed up on the internet.
Manufactured by Nike in Indonesia, its colours were described as Blue Lagoon/Team Orange, it was made of lightweight Breathe Fabric, with Dri-FIT Technology and had “stretch rib panels at the sides” for, we were told, mobility. Super.
Social media was far less awed, the most scathing called it a “banyan (men’s vest) with an orange border” but most of the anger, it appeared, arose not from the look of…
Royal Wahingdoh ended third in 2015, behind Mohun Bagan and Bengaluru FC.
Quick – can you name the club that, before Aizawl FC, had produced the best I-League finish among the north-eastern clubs?
It isn’t Shillong Lajong, whom Aizwal meet this Sunday. Lajong are known nationwide and will, regardless of Sunday’s result, record their best finish in the I-League. The answer is actually another Shillong club: Royal Wahingdoh, who finished third behind Mohun Bagan and Bengaluru FC in their debut I-League season in 2015.
The club are currently thriving, proud of their achievement…
Aizawl FC midfielder, Mahmoud Amnah, talks about his hometown in Syria and Aizawl’s journey to the top of the I-League
Mahmoud Amnah is busy helping his unfancied team make a Leicester-like tilt for the title but his mind can never get away from the carnage back home in Syria.
Mahmoud Amnah would have stood out in Mizoram anyway. Like his many other non-Mizo teammates of Aizawl FC; be it Kingsley Obumneme from Nigeria, Albino Gomes of Goa, Kamo Stephane Bayi from Ivory Coast or Jayesh Rane of Mumbai.
What will always make Amnah more distinctive than the rest is that he is the most feted of the Aizawl FC outstation…