Giving a big shock to all the Brazilian fans, Neymar sustained a minor ankle injury during the training session ahead of their first world cup match just three days ahead. It could have been the biggest shock, had it been true coz later the injury found to be just a minor one and 22-year-old sensational forward quickly managed to heal off it and proved it by powering a brilliant free kick. Actually, when his ankle injury news was flashed by the live reporters, everyone stunned to see how it would be or is there any reason to doubt his participation in the first world cup in Brazil after nearly five decades, but for the good of Brazilian soccer, it turned out to be just a media sensation. Notable, Neymar is among the most look-forward players in this world cup after signing a mega deal for Spanish giant Barcelona. In fact, he has been more famous for his contract dispute then whatever he did on the field. He got the world recognition after being caught in by the Santos, his former club, … [Read more...]

There is no reason importance of social networks should be ignored these days, in fact, everyone knows how powerful this median of communication has become that is why top three social engines: Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are fighting to lead the aerial space before Brazil world cup begins. According to a recent report published in a UK news daily. All there social giants are claiming to be the biggest hub for soccer fans all over the world and Facebook, specially, claims to have reached a total of five hundred million fans for the world cup. Actually, Facebook has introduced a virtual stadium idea where anyone can know, in real time, actual status of any running, past, or future game along with anything that matters for the fans like injury, substitute, score tally, and etc. Similarly, Twitter also has claimed that there have been more Tweets fired by the fans across the world than the entire world cup in South Africa. This shows how closely we are associated with these social … [Read more...]

Qatar world cup seems to be getting more media coverage than world up in Brazil these days, thanks to the latest discloser by The Sunday Times that says more than millions of dollars were paid in bribe to win the hosting rights of one of the most controversial world cups ever. After FIFA President and Qataris football association, now its turn to event sponsors who are coming forward to seek an explanation and investigation about the confident discloser by the English newspaper. Sony, one the key sponsors of the event, has demanded a thorough inquiry over the allegation put on by the newspaper. Sony’s reaction has come after FIFA vice president assurance they would not hesitate in re-polling if they found anything true in the documents provided by the English source. Notably, there have been many similar complaints in the past as well but no one did take them seriously but when Sunday times came forward with thousands of supporting documents, FIFA had to initiate an immediate inquiry … [Read more...]

Proving their dominance over global soccer fans, BBC and ITV together win the broadcasting rights again for the FIFA world cups to be held in 2018 and 2022. It has actually been more than seven decades old relationship between FIFA and two biggest UK broadcasters enjoying billions of fans across the world especially in central Europe. If we look at the percentage of peoples who used their network to watch or listen 2010 South African world cup finals, more than 75 percent of the English pollution accepted to have used any of these two networks. According to the current deal, both of them would have exclusive rights across TV, radio, and online to broadcast finals of the next two FIFA events. However, it is still not clear how much amount they have paid for the exclusive rights, but according to close sources amount paid this time is more than any previous deal signed by the BBC. This is again a good news for English fans coz all the matches would be aired as free within English … [Read more...]

Every time a world cup is about to begin, every team starts talking about how difficult group it is in and why they would have to fight to their core to make it to the next level. This is also not a new thing that high profile teams, who are among the list of probable winners, are leading these objections despite the fact that governing body carefully place each team in a respective group covering a mix of top sides and underdogs. For now, we are talking about Portugal national team who has ever been one of the strongest contenders for the FIFA title and its captain Cristiano Ronaldo who recently said since they are in the toughest group; they should not aspire for the title. This is indeed a strange comment coming from FIFA player of the year award winner who has once been the priciest player as well, in fact, everyone expected him to lead the team with unparalleled confidence but his downhearted statement could rater be a demotivating factor for the entire team. Portuguese are in … [Read more...]