Generally, whenever a senior soccer brain joins any big soccer club, rumors happen to be in the air discussing lots of things about his past, his journey to the big road, and one important question whether he can prove himself in front of the world leading or playing for a prominent side? This is something that is being happened with Dutch international Louis Van Gaal who, although, had already been a big name in soccer but his biggest challenge is to bring Manchester United glorious period back who ended last English season as one of the weakest sides. In fact, talking more precisely, Old Trafford side is being labeled as the most dangerous side to lead after sacking of former manager Moyes, hence not many were interested in joining the side, but Gaal took the dare and made several innovative changes from field spread to hiring new players one after another. Actually, nobody in the top management really cares about how much he is spending coz we know Reds are capable of throwing even … [Read more...]

Soccer enjoys the best of both the worlds with fans following across the globe covering every sport and region. It proves again when world’s renowned Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt revealed to have advised controversial Italian striker Mario Balotelli to go back to the premier league despite knowing his interest in joining Liverpool. Since Bolt is known for his die-hard support to Manchester United, everyone is surprised to see why he is advocating someone to join any other side for any reason. Maybe he is not having in-depth knowledge of insides of the dressing rooms of each side but still he strongly believes that AC Milan was not the best place for mostly-in-news forward who scored maximum number of goals for home side during his one year tenure. Those, who do not know about the Jamaican sprinter, he is the record holder across Olympic and world platforms in both 100 as well 200 meter track. He generally does not speak too much about soccer but everyone knows he loves the game and … [Read more...]

When whole world is dooming the four months FIFA ban given to Barcelona ace striker Suarez, did anyone think about the ground reality each and every youngster has to pass through when they are not a superstar? We hear every other day about the deteriorating level of violence in second division matches across the world, in fact, there are countless cases when even players or referees are died for the ferocity started with just small arguments. But, we are not talking about ‘any’ State or match known for hard reaction over unfavorable decisions, but an incident that took place in Austria where reportedly an amateur player is slapped with not one, two, or three but seventy matches ban by the Tirol football association for head-butting a referee. It was the match between SPG Innsbruck West and SK Rum and incident happened when Ismail Gunduz, the player involved in incident, was shown his second yellow card and he lost his temper and did what is now giving him the world coverage. The event … [Read more...]

Among all the league sides, Manchester United has been the hungriest side for new players in this summer transfer window and it proved with latest report from a leading international consultancy firm who said United spent a maximum amount in last summer to hire players while EPL clubs are still the heaviest spenders across the globe. But those who know this high net worth English side, were well aware that after arrival of new manager, it was expected that he would make some devastating changes in team’s composition and he did it even if it required to spend some one fifty millions to bring his choice of players to Old Trafford. Among all the new signees, Radamel Falcao’s move to the 2012-13 league winners has been dramatic as he was being followed by three league sides but United manage to sign him during the last hours of transfer window. Reportedly, they hired Colombian striker on loan for one year from Monaco at six million pounds with an intention to make his appointment … [Read more...]

Broadcasting rights has ever been a big issue ahead of any important soccer international event; we saw how FIFA had to use its teeth to force official world cup broadcasters to provide the live coverage across the world at reasonable cost recently. Now, the same problem seems to be heading again, yes we are talking about EURO 2016 which is two years head yet created lots of headlines for apparent hike in the broadcasting fee by the CAA Eleven the exclusive UEFA agent to manage the centralized commercial rights of all UEFA events including distributing rights of live coverage of this year’s finals and qualifiers. This is probably be the first time, UEFA has taken the help of professional media selling agent to gain a maximum amount out of possible deals with various regions, but here is a problem, Russia the host of next world cup has raised its strong objection over the fee UEFA agent is asking to pay and said it is way too high in comparison to the EURO 2012, in fact, problem has … [Read more...]