League Managers’ Association (LMA) yesterday announces its manager of the year awards for the season with many known names in the winners list, but one of the most predictable names was Manchester United’s retiring manager Sir Alex Ferguson who has been named as the manager of the year on winning his twentieth league title in his decades old soccer career. The legendary manager has always been a source of inspiration for others with his aggressive statements while defending his players; hence he is termed as the real manager among all. Other winners include Malky Mackay; for Championship League, Gary Johnson; for League One, Martin Allen; for League Two, Roberto Martinez; for FA Cup along with Phil Parkinson and Roberto Di Matteo who were given the merit awards. Manchester United finished its EPL season with a 5-5 draw against West Brom which also happened to be Ferguson’s 1500th match in charge. Ferguson has been most successful manager of all time by winning as many as 38 titles in … [Read more...]
Gareth Bale agrees a new £130,000-a-week deal with Tottenham
After heap of speculations about the departure of a vital Tottenham’s asset: Gareth Bale, a closed source of player has finally revealed that player is in talk with Spurs for a one year extension at an astonishing £130,000-a-week price tag. The news brings a big relief for Tottenham’s fans who were expecting second worst news after they were sidelined from Championship qualification. Though, Bale, who has won Players of the player award, has not made any commitment about his possible stay next year as he is also in talks with other clubs to make a permanent makeshift after spending contracted time at White Hart Lane. Tottenham is now out of the Championship race despite their yesterday’s win coz Arsenal defeated Newcastle and shunned its chances. According to some media reports, Bale is in some serious talks with Manchester United and Real Madrid and if things go as planned by him, 23-yearl-old young sensation can reside at any of these biggies for rest of his playing career. However, … [Read more...]
Swiss to widen its anti-corruption laws to cover private organizations
The global hub of governing bodies has now taken an extreme step to implement a decisive change in its anti-corruption laws with a hope to tackle the root cause of this malpractice even if it is being happened in a private organization. Notably, there are around thirty international sports’ governing bodies who fall into private originations’ category and enjoy their status outside of Swiss penal codes, but if Swiss government continues to its promises, coming months would change the whole picture by adding all these bodies into the preview of Swiss anti-corruption laws which include FIFA - based in Zurich, UEFA - headquarters in Nyon, IOC- based in Lausanne, and International Cycling Union – based in Aigle, which are among some of the high profile bodies having their headquarters in Switzerland. At the moment, the draft in on table and will be open for public preview with a September 5 deadline and if it could get a public referendum, there would be strictest norms for new each … [Read more...]
No clarity over Neymar’s future
Young Brazilian sensation Neymar is still in a confused state about his career outside Brazil coz he plays for Santos at the moment and wants to remain over there at least until the world cup while there are other contradictory stories that tie him with other clubs if Santos gets a pleasing offer. Both Neymar and his father have ruled out any development about their sale tag and still showing their sincere loyalty until there is a confirmed news. On the other hand, Luiz Felipe Scolari has confirmed to spoke with Barcelona president Sandro Rosell about the possible deal talks for the young starlet. Actually, the future destination of Neymar has been in the news for quite some time especially after Pele has compared him with that of himself disgracing Messi, so it would be a perfect entertainment package where both Neymar and Messi play for the same team offering a highly luring soccer for their fans. Anyhow, now, Neymar is too happy to be in Brazil hence there is no apparent sign, at … [Read more...]
Qatar wins 2022 World Cup hosting for its high political interference: Blatter
There have been lots of speculations about how it could happen that FIFA selected a world cup host from Middle East Asia knowing the environmental surroundings over there in the month of June – the traditional timing of FIFA world cup. Many soccer experts have already labeled 2022 world cup as the biggest threat to players’ health, and above all, to thousands of fans who will visit in this part of the world to cheer their teams. Now, FIFA president has revealed how it could be possible that Qatar won on ballet polling despite the fact the most of the members were in support of US as the world cup host. Blatter has said that high level politics played its role at different levels to decide the host of much optimistic world cup; in fact, no one had thought that final result will be in favor of an Asian country where temperature crosses more than 50 degree Celsius during June. In an interview given to L'Equipe, Blatter said, “There were interventions at different levels so that it would … [Read more...]
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