So, keep your nerve in your hand and get to know the precise schedule time of all the FIFA world cup matches, which is hosted by Brazil. Being a western country for central Europe, means each match’s local time will be behind of European local time by around 5 to 6 hours. Anyways, FIFA has already taken great care of global time differences, consistent rest, overlapping matches, local temperature, television scheduling, and global viewers comfort in deciding the final timing of all the matches. Opening match of this event will be kicked off exactly at 5 PM local time in Sao Paulo on June 12. Being the biggest county in Brazil, Sao Paulo has the maximum number of the matches and time wise; it is around 5 hours behind of Europe so European fans will have to reverse their watches by around 5 hours to be precise. Moreover, many matches would also be held in further west Brazilian county, like Cuiaba and Manaus where local time is behind by another hour. Yesterday FIFA announced its … [Read more...]
Record 130,000 Volunteers’ Applications for FIFA World Cup
FIFA world cup 2014 may be two years away from now but its preparations have already been started around the world - both on field and off field. Recently, FIFA invited applications from all the interested fans who would like to serve the event as volunteer and to many’s surprise the number of applications has gone beyond everyone’s expectations, i.e., over 130,000! This figure is highest till now in FIFA world cup’s history. Notably, the willing volunteers would be asked to serve for minimum 10 hours a day for twenty days in total. These volunteers will have to make themselves available for three events: FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil next year, 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil again, and draws for the two events. More importantly, in last world cup in South Africa, the number of volunteers applied was just 70,000; almost half of present interested soccer fans who would love to serve their favorite sport. Everybody knows that soccer is a religion in Brazil where every citizen lives … [Read more...]
FC Barcelona to have a revised contract for Xavi
One of the biggest football clubs: FC Barcelona is trying to sign a revised contract for its star midfielder Xavi. Reportedly, the new contract would tie their long standing relationship even stronger as both Barcelona and Xevi are equally excited to their new and extended contract terms. Notably, the existing contract between these two has not been expired yet coz there are whole two years left in its termination, yet Barcelona is eager to sign a new contract probably to sign him for a longer period. Xavier Hernandez aka Xavi is the most admired Spanish footballer who usually plays as a central midfielder for Spain’s national football team and FC Barcelona. Xavi has many achievements to his name including being an only Spanish player to win the highest number of trophies than any other Spanish player in the history. Even FC Barcelona has won many titles having Xavi as its midfielder, like Copa del Rey, Primera Division, Spanish and the UEFA Super Cup, Champions League, and European … [Read more...]
Lokomotiv Plovdiv’s players to undergo a lie detector test after a surprise defeat
It’s a whole new beginning to eradicate match fixing from the soccer world and its initiator is not Brazil or Spain but Lokomotiv Plovdiv’s owner: Veselin Mareshki, who has ordered a lie detector test for its team’s players and coach after they lost a surprised match against bottom side Botev Vratsa by 1-0. The winning team Botev Vratsa has already lost five consecutive matches in current season hence its surprised win has raised many concerns of a probable match fixing. To find out any unwanted reason of this defeat, a lie detector test has been ordered. The said match fixing allegations have taken a surge after a prosecutor initiated his investigations recently on four matches played this season that were suspected to be fixed. Bulgarian Football Union has promised to provide every possible support that could lead to find the final offender if there founds to be a behind the scene fixing. Lokomotiv is one of the oldest Bulgarian football clubs having its root back in 1926 and since … [Read more...]
Abusive Tweets, Mark Halsey Complaints to Police
How Premier league’s matches leave their impact on fans’ mind was shown on Sunday after Liverpool and Manchester United match where Manchester United defeated Liverpool by a decisive last minute goal through a penalty rewarded by referee Mark Halsey to Robin van Persie. This penalty changed the game in Manchester United’s favor and Liverpool lost another match only to bring it down to eighteenth spot on leaderboard. Manchester United, with this win, secured its second place on the ranking table. Nonetheless, the match is more known for the fans retaliation to referee’s penalty decision which caused Liverpool a match. Referee Mark Halsey, who has long been fighting with his cancer, got some abusive tweets by the apparent fans of Liverpool; these tweets were targeted towards his personal health issues which disturbed him the most. He filed an official complaint with police and tweeter also took action immediately by removing those abusive tweets and banning one of two said accounts where … [Read more...]
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