Young players all over the world look more dedicated and focused for their career and it holds true whether you are playing for a Spanish side or in English premier league, and for that reason, most of the sides usually hire players in their teen ages to explore their hidden talents to be used in a long term. We have seen this is something that happened to Neymar and now another player who is getting famous these days for his consistent form is Liverpool’s 19-year-old Englishman Raheem Sterling who proved his worth on both national and club levels. He not only impressed everyone playing for the Reds but also made an emphatic entry in Euro qualifier against Switzerland. Usually, this kind of players have one idol whom they follow the most and in this case manager Brendan Rodgers has taken the role of mentoring the young midfielder and apparently asked him to ‘live, sleep and eat’ football if he wants to enlarge his professional career. This is also a fact that players of this age often … [Read more...]

When you are associated with a top knocking club, criticisms always leveled against you that you have lost charm for your national side and this belief gets a strong nod from rest of the world if your performance playing for club and for national team differs significantly. Anyways, domestic leagues across the world are infamous for not releasing key players for national duties and even if they do under any kind of pressure they start imposing severe conditions regarding how to use their priciest assets during national games especially friendlies. We have seen this happened with Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo who plays for Real Madrid and when national team called him for the world cup, Real manager personally requested Portuguese soccer team manager not to use him in unnecessary ‘matches.’ But now, we are not talking about Ronaldo or Real Madrid but their arch rival Barcelona and its highly acclaimed player Lionel Messi who has recently been censured by a large section of … [Read more...]

Though, last transfer window could manage to pile the record of league clubs who again ruled the transfer market with a massive outlay of hundreds of million pounds, but one player who got the attention not for anything but the timings Manchester United snatched him in. Yes, we are talking about 28-year-old Columbian star Radamel Falcao who made a shift to the Old Trafford after two hours of official transfer deadline hence everyone start thinking what Gaal saw in him that they specially requested the league officials to allow them make this deal happen. Falcao joined the 2012-13 league champions on loan for one season with an option to make him permanent if club desires. Similarly, Monaco forward is also thrilled to play for his dream team but little worried as well for the expectations everyone carries over him especially after the headlines his transfer could make in the sports world. Falcao recently said he wants to make this deal end forever hence would do everything to prove he … [Read more...]

As the four months of Suarez ban are coming to an end, excitement of watching the favorite serial biter on the field again is touching the sky. Notably, this former Liverpool starlet is facing a four months ban for biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini during a world cup game. Actually, FIFA disciplinary committee took the prompt action after his third biting episode in the field and debarred him from nine international games along with a four months exile from any football related activity. Next week, he made a switch from Liverpool to Barcelona and then Spanish giant used its influence and first appealed in front of the FIFA committee but when it refused to ease his ban, they moved to CAS. After hearing both the sides, international tribunal for sports arbitration though sustained his ban but restricted it to official matches only, which means, he could now impart in the training sessions along with moving with the team. Since, the verdict was final, Suarez had to wait for the … [Read more...]

The long time awaiting Arsenal winger Theo Walcott recently revealed to have fully recovered from his knee ligament injury hence can soon comeback in the first team. But his desires need some more time to fulfil as manager Arsene Wenger seems not to be in hurry to bring him in the team until he fully recovers from his injury that kept him out of the game since last January. Recently, some media reports claimed that English forward could find a place in Gunners last eleven for upcoming league clash with defender Manchester City, but after boss’ comment, Walcott needs to rest some more time to get fully charged for the current league season. Matching the lines of his boss, 25-year-old said via club website that “We're not setting specific comeback matches, but I'm just pleased it's hopefully now only a matter of weeks before I'll be back playing. “There may be one or two under-21s matches I'll be involved in first. I'm just looking forward to getting out there and playing again. … [Read more...]