It is very common in soccer that a player starts noticing how gradually his aspirants are ignoring him, and when it starts happening to him, he should consider it an end of his relationships no matter how long it was. It usually happens when either he has grown enough to play again or his team has got another talented player- better than him. This is something that is being happened with Liverpool’s 31-year-old goalie Pepe Reina who always wanted to continue playing for his favorite club until the end of his career, but destiny has something else for him and that is why Anfield club has loaned him to Italian club Napoli last year. Though, he is happy playing under Rafael Benitez’s mentorship, yet he misses England very much. Now, when it has been made clear from the Reds that he would also not feature in the next season, he lost all the hopes and starts counting the end of his prosperous career. At the moment, he has somewhere around three years remaining to his current contract with … [Read more...]
Manchester City and Liverpool extend their cyber reach
In the world dominated by Internet how can anyone afford to be behind in technological race. It holds true with soccer clubs, especially English clubs who are known for their optimistic steps to extend their global fan following. Today, internet has made the whole world a small village hence if a club wants to expand its reach, it just needs to offer its contents in as maximum languages as possible digitally and this is what is being done by two prominent EPL clubs: Liverpool and Manchester City. Both these clubs have already their content available in English and several other languages, yet they again made their site and social media feeds available in many more languages, including Chinese, Korean, French, Indonesian, Russian, Japanese, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, and Thai. Accordingly, there would be new twitter accounts in respective languages along with web portals so that their far distance fans could also enjoy their whereabouts in their local language. With this expansion, … [Read more...]
Liverpool confirms Suarez a contract extension
When you have no taker; you need to satisfy with whatever you can get. This is something that is being happened with Liverpool forward Luis Suarez who had once been an eye candy for everyone but suddenly became an unrequired asset. Notably, he had been in talks with various clubs after his statement that he wants to leave Anfield, but when his contract clause, which could have allow him go anywhere easily, expired without any taker, he got assured that he will have to stay where he is and rightly so, he finally joined Liverpool A-Team after serving his ten matches suspension for biting Chelsea’s defender Branislav Ivanovic. Long suspensions have ever been his pet reward coz earlier he was out for nine matches for his racial remarks over United’s defender Patrice Evra. Anyways, the good news is club managing director Ian Ayre has said they will offer him a contract extension but after current season, which means, he can stay for a longer time or until he finds a good offer to makeshift. … [Read more...]
Sunderland interim boss wants to be permanent
League club Sunderland, who could not start a dream run this season and residing on the bottom, could be the next Chelsea for its temporary boss Kevin Ball who was appointed after the dismissal of former Di Canio over not meeting the expectations. However, there is no confirmation from the club end nor there is any speculation over his appointment on a permanent basis, yet he has shown his readiness to be a permanent boss for the Black Cats. It looks like a recap of what happened to Chelsea manager Rafael Benítez who was temporarily appointed on similar circumstances last year, but later, replaced by José Mourinho. Anyway, there is nothing wrong in trying and this is what 48-year-old Englishman is doing. It is also a fact that Sunderland has shown an improved displayed since he has taken the job of big boss and that is why he is taking the vibes in his favor. Though, he also knows that anyone would like to be at Stadium of Light, yet, since he has served the club for more than … [Read more...]
Istanbul is likely to host 2020 Euro
Hosting rights of 2020 mega European soccer league could go to Istanbul if current trend is to be believed. The vibes are coming not only from members but also from FIFA whose president has already said he would love to see Turkey hosting EURO 2020. Recently, this country lost 2020 Olympic rights and for this reason, both FIFA and UEFA are looking forward to place European league over here. According to the new bid format, every interested State needs to mention if it would like to hold group stage, knockout stage or semifinals and final matches. These two are broad categories UEFA has divided the entire event to smooth line and expand its reach. As par current trend, there are around 32 bids who want to win the hosting rights while many more are likely to join them soon. Final bids of all aspirants will be submitted to European governing body by 25 April next year and final announcement for the host will be made by 25 September. Apart from Istanbul, Wembley is the second hot favorite … [Read more...]
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