This season looks to be lucky one for clubs either looking to expand their existing home grounds or looking for a shift to somewhere else. After Barcelona’s more talked about proposal to expand the capacity of Camp Nou, English club Queens Park Rangers seems to be following their Spanish rival’s footstep and looking for an alternate for their one-hundred-year old home ground. Reportedly, English Championship club announced their plans to leave Loftus Road for a new 40000 seater ground somewhere in West London. Location wise, their new home is not far away from old one, coz it is just few minutes’ drive away, but since it would have almost double sitting space to that of Loftus Road, it fits into their future plans as well. However, as far their performance is concerned, they could never be a big league club on English circuit, in fact, they were relegated in the EPL last season, but promises to come back with a bang this time and this could be their first step in that direction. … [Read more...]

Countdown for the best FIFA player of the year has shrank to last three players including two of the most favorite players to win the crown and a French international footballer who plays for Bayern Munich. Everyone has long been guessing who would be this year’s Ballon d'Or winner while eyes were on Messi, Ronaldo, and Bale, but to many surprise, Bale could not make it to the last three despite some stunning performances off late, especially his first hat trick for Real in the absence of Ronaldo. Lionel Messi, as always, has been on the list of everyone coz of his magnificent show in the last season, but since his form has not been so focused in last few months coz of his injuries, Real’s in-form striker Ronaldo is the most predicted player to win highly prestigious FIFA award this year. Notably, Messi has been winning this crown continuously since last four years, hence his dominance over others will again be in his favor coz this award is generally based on previous season’s … [Read more...]

Every soccer fan thinks that players make a shift just for money, but actually, there are lots of others issues which drive a player to switch from one side to another and when he decides to find a second home, several lined up clubs try their best to snatch him, but only if he is a known star like Real Madrid’s Ronaldo. Actually, soccer world is full of sharks who continuously hunt around for any dead meat and this is what French heavy weight Paris Saint-Germain was doing when Real’s finest striker Cristiano Ronaldo had a dissent with them. Everyone knows the episode that how Rolando revealed about his displeasure over no extension of his contract and informed the world via Tweeter, but fortunately, Real offered him what he wanted and Spanish giant is now getting the rewards coz Ronaldo is in his greatest form these days. Generally, who placed a secrete bid for a known star is never revealed by anyone, but PSG sporting director Leonardo has disclosed the secrete that his team tried … [Read more...]

Every year, when English Premier League takes off, few teams are always taken as the favorite to win the crown, and in most of the cases, one of these favorites eventually win the title. Manchester United is one such favorable who is always supposed to be on the top whenever a new season starts, but sometimes, like this year, this didn’t hold true. Despite all the exaggeration before the season, this defending champion could not overshadow their disastrous start, in fact, new manager David Moyes tried his best and also registered some impressive wins later, but it was not enough to take them among the top five. Defending champions are now at ninth place - much below to their supposed position, but anyway, this is how this game is played. While many have already ruled out United chances to retain the title, Chelsea’s manager looks in no mood to accept their defeat so easily, perhaps he is confident that Red Devils will make an impressive comeback very soon. Like what everyone is … [Read more...]

Though, Barcelona is leading the Spanish La Liga leaderboard but they seemed to be missing their fine touch in last few games that is why they could not overcome teams like Athletic and Ajax. Their two defeats in succession raised many eyebrows up who start talking about team strength in absence of lead players like Messi, but ruling all the rumors out, Camp Nou team again showcased its command over the ball and crushed Cartagena by 4-1. Margin is too big to think it would have been a one sided affair, but surprisingly, Baca came from the behind and win the match despite missing Lionel Messi, Neymar, Andres Iniesta, and Xavi Hernandez. The team who has ever been known for its army of world class strikers showed why they are the ruling champions of contemporary soccer and made a perfect finish to add another win into their bag. They are leading the leaderboard with forty points and equal number of wins along with Atletico Madrid, however, they have more goals into their basket to take … [Read more...]