Every player who is around thirty five years in age, is subjected to lots of obstacles for his remaining professional career for obvious reasons and if such player signs for an English premier league club, chances for him to succeed in highly competitive environment are further diminished and this is something that is supposed to be happening with Manchester United new signee Zlatan Ibrahimovic who is about to debut his ManU career after playing a long and successful spell at Paris Saint-Germain. Despite his brilliant success ratio playing for the French side, experts have a different opinion about his new assignment; in fact, everyone doubts his success playing for the English club where age is the first obstacle for any player no matter how successful he has been playing during his young age. Former Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder Emmanuel Peti is one such pro who is strongly skeptical about Ibrahimovic debut in English topflight. Actually, it has only been two days 34-year-old … [Read more...]
A big breakthrough for Gurpreet Singh Sandhu to play for Stabaek: Sunil Chhetri
Though soccer has ever been taken as the European predominated outdoor game but its popularity has been immensely high in the entire world hence we have a national soccer team in almost every country we know about even though they do not stand anywhere on world standard. Asia is one such region which is not taken as a threat on any level for European sides, hence most of the Euro clubs do not want to hire players of this region citing the obvious reasons and this is possibly be the first time an Indian player is about to debut his soccer career playing for a European club. Yes, you read it right, 24-year-old Indian goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu is all set to play for Norwegian Tippeligaen club Stabaek in Thursday's Europa League qualifier game against Welsh Premier League club Connnah's Quay Nomads. This is definitely a good news for all the soccer fans and aspiring soccer players here in India as they can now dream of playing with some of the biggest soccer names if they could … [Read more...]
Messi calls off from International soccer; Maradona urges to play until 2018 World Cup
While many call it a shocking news, many take it a perfect opportunity for Lionel Messi to retire from international soccer after his failure to score in a penalty shootout playing for his national side in Copa America final against Chile. It was precisely fourth major final loss for La Albiceleste in nine years and second to Chile, in fact, ever since Messi has been a part of Argentine national squad, they could only win one Olympic gold at the 2008 Games and experts are calling it a big failure for the high profile player to copy his club performances playing for the national side. Likewise, many are taking it as a proof why most of the starlets avoid playing international games citing the money involved in club soccer and as far Messi is concerned, unlike his international feats, he has been among the most successful playing for his club Barcelona where he won as many as won eight La Liga titles and four Champions Leagues in his glorious club career. Anyways, after he announced … [Read more...]
Roy Hodgson denies any rift between Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy
The problem for every big side is not the fact that how its players are performing but if each player is having good relations with every other member of the team since soccer is a team game hence no one can deliver to the expectations unless all the players are having a fruitful tuning. This is something that seems to be happening with National English Soccer team who is reportedly not having a calm dressing room. According to few reports published in the media off late, captain Wayne Rooney and striker Jamie Vardy are not enjoying each other in the field and this is what is costing the whole side hence media is curious to know if everything is ok within the side, or in other words, controversial media geeks are eager to know about anything wrong within the side. But, putting a big dot on all the rumors being flashed by a certain section of media, England manager Roy Hodgson has dismissed all the allegations that there is a growing problem between two key players. Talking about the … [Read more...]
Rooney backs Hodgson’s rotation decision
Every time a side fails to deliver in a high profile game, all fingers are pointed over the players but when it is the manager who took some brave decisions during the game and placed key players on the unorthodox positions, then it is the manager who faces all the aggression from everyone and this is something that seems to be happening with English national soccer team who could not overcome Slovakia in final Group B clash. The game eventually ended in a goal less draw and all fingers are being raised over the manager Roy Hodgson who made several changes in the well-known field spread including resting Wayne Rooney in the midfield. Actually, the chance to enter into the second stage have now diminished for Three Lions after they could only secure a second position after Wales hence they will have to play with Iceland in Nice on Monday while if they could defeat Slovakia, they would have been facing Northern Ireland in Paris on Saturday. Anyways, while almost everyone is after the … [Read more...]
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