For many, soccer is a game of fitness where players have to keep running for full ninety minutes, and sometimes, in extra time too, but they also need to dive occasionally either to use their header or to earn a penalty. Many legendry soccer players have recently been accused of using dives wrongly just to earn their teams a penalty and United’s Ashley Young is the new name to be in this list. In Tuesday’s Champions League Group A clash with Real Sociedad in Spain, the 28-year-old midfielder used his diving skills and earned a penalty and later many accused him of conning the referee, who was not in a better position to see the actuals, for an unfair reason and asked for a disciplinary action against him. Action replay clearly showed that this was not the genuine case to reward a penalty and many experts on TV called it a cheating. Sky Sports pundit Ray Wilkins openly bashed Ashley’s cheap move and said, “This is pathetic. This is as bad for me as all these over-the-top tackles we're … [Read more...]
Suarez sees a League Champion in Liverpool
Soccer is an entire world in itself where relations keep building and knocking every other day, in fact, it is very common to see a player, who has until been criticizing his club, becomes a loyal fan of the same club and starts praising it surprisingly. Take an example of 26-year-old Uruguayan footballer Luis Suarez who has been a dissenting football until few months ago, actually, he publically called for an interesting bid for a makeshift, but then Liverpool did something in the backyard and offered him an extension and then things start changing completely. Recently, the forward showed his immense satisfaction staying at Anfield and now he again comes forward and expresses his belief that Liverpool can be the league champion this season. Though, The Reds are comfortably staying on the third spot with twenty points out of their first ten played matches this season, but more importantly, this season’s leaderboard is unexpectedly lacking last time’s champions anywhere on the top. Many … [Read more...]
The world concerns over Messi’s drought of goals
Soccer stars, especially those who have always been in the eyes of their fans, enjoy being in the notice for each of their performances, and if the star is a player like Messi, the whole world follows each of his moves inside and outside of the ground. Unfortunately, this time four times Ballon d'Or award winner is in the news for unwanted reasons, i.e., his drought of goals. Actually, it has now been four matches passed by he could not find the net; for any other player in the world, this would have been normal, but not for Messy. Though, Barcelona is winning, but world is waiting to see their favorite starlet back in action. In a recent social message via a Chinese micro blogging site Tencent Weibo, he accepted his failure to score off late, however he also said his injuries are letting him down this time. Notably, the 26-year-old Argentine did not score in his last 301 La Liga minutes which is a record in itself looking at his magnificent spell full of firing goals last year. … [Read more...]
Milan’s dismissal show and firing row starts from the top
Rewards and punishments are not the prerogative of English Premier League clubs, perhaps it happens around the world including Italian league Serie A. Following the tradition of punishing non performing executives, it was in the news off late that AC Milan is about to sack its CEO Adriano Galliani for club’s miserable performance this season. Notably, 69-year-old Italian has been serving the club since 1986, in fact, he used to be compared with United legendry manager Alex. Anyhow, you can call it a generation change or whatever, but ever since Silvio Berlusconi, daughter of club owner Barbara Berlusconi, has joined the board of directors, she made many changes on every level of club administrations, including sale of their starlets like Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to German club PSG. Apart from that, some of the well-known names also freed from their club duties. If we look at few transfer windows off late, Milan did not show any interest in making high profile investments on … [Read more...]
A Shadow of darkness over 2018 Russian World Cup
While Brazil world cup protest is being watched by the whole world, especially by those fans who want to visit this part of the world for upcoming mega soccer event, a problem with 2018 world cup seems to be raising its head. Yes, we are talking about racism and how old this sickness has been in USSR. This time, an incident happened at 78 Spartak Moscow on Wednesday where a group of hooligans demonstrated how dangerous they can be if their demands are not met. Apparently, many black players have said recently that they will boycott the 2018 world soccer event if Russian government does not ensure a fair treatment to them. Few days ago, a Championship match between league club Manchester City and Russian club CSKA brought into the notice the ground realities and how wider the gap is between Blacks and Whites in Russia. Apparently, City midfielder Yaya Toure was racially abused via nonstop chants and UEFA disciplinary committee later asked Russian club to ban a part of the stadium. This … [Read more...]
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