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...]

FIFA is never expected to reveal all the details about a world cup bidding process but after 2022 Qatar world cup corruption allegations; its image has severely been downgraded. In fact, most of the regions including CONCACAF now want the governing body to let the world know all the facts about the bidding process of next two world cups along with clarifying its stand over the Arab event. According to President Jeffrey Webb, FIFA needs to understand no one can now believe over their age-old practice to organize a bidding process for the mega soccer event and if it wants to regain its lost pride by recent bribery allegations, Blatter specifically needs to convince all the continents that he is not going to let it go easily. The 49-year-old Webb, who also happens to be the Vice President of FIFA governing body, raised these hard hitting questions in the Soccerex Convention just held in Manchester. This is also noteworthy that Michael Garcia, the investigator entrusted by the governing … [Read more...]

We just saw the memorable soccer world cup in Brazil and it’s time now to expect similar entertainment from Euro 2016 which is in its qualification stage. Expectedly, every team and player seem to be getting influenced with their world cup performances and when it comes to be inspired from the Brazilian event, how can one forget to copy Germans who undisputedly ruled the mega soccer event in June? Club football has always had one advantage and that is it comprises players from all over the world hence whenever a player is called for international duty by his national side, he carries the rich experience of being with other stars who belong to other nations and this is what seems to be happening with Wales national soccer team who is soon going to begin its Euro qualification campaign. The 23-year-old midfielder Aaron Ramsey, who plays for Arsenal, has had unique experience of sharing the dressing room with players like Mesut Ozil, Per Mertesacker, and Lukas Podolski and he is not alone … [Read more...]

A transfer window and overspendings by clubs are again in the news thanks to Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho who recently talked about the pros and cons of UEFA guidelines which restrict European clubs to spend more than they earn. Although, league clubs have always been the front runner in the race of showing money power all over the world, but they seemed to be little conservative after UEFA strictly asked them to limit their expenditure or face the penalty. Notably, Platini did not act last year when clubs like Manchester United failed to pass their money controlling advisories, but this year, European watchdog has warned all the empaneled sides to face strictest sanctions if they found guilty of bypassing FFPs. Heating the issue again, former Everton manager has presented his side as the victim of changed financial policies whereby they could not buy players of their interest while other sides, who are heavyweights according to him, did whatever they wanted, in fact, clubs like … [Read more...]