While everyone is busy discussing Brazil world cup and English premier league along with La Liga, Italian domestic league Serie A is also in interesting stage. Two city rivals AC Milan and Inter Milan are fighting, as always, to defeat each other despite the fact that none of them is even close to win the Italian title. Yes, we are specifically talking about AC Milan and its star forward Mario Balotelli who has now surpassed his earlier record with fourteen Serie A goals for Milan, and more importantly, his performance in the match with Livorno made them win fifth consecutive win in the domestic front. Despite their brilliant show in the last few matches, they are still five good points behind of city rival Inter who is comfortable at fifth position with fifty six points to its name. Anyways, the hero of Saturday’s game was undoubtedly notorious Mario Balotelli who is known more for his outside conducts than whatever he does inside the field. Since, he has been missing the headlines … [Read more...]

Sepp Blatter has unarguably been the only FIFA President in recent time who has suggested or implemented more ways to tackle corruption and racism than anyone else. After supporting various noble causes to enhance soccer’s reach around the world, this 78-year-old soccer brain has again reiterated his earlier suggestions that racism is the biggest threat to the most popular outdoor game, in fact, he is dedicated to eradicate this menace from this game at any cost. Reportedly, there have been many advices on how governing bodies should handle the cases of color discrimination, including banning spectators to enter into the ground or playing critical games inside empty stadium. But, Blatter never supported these ways as they can never be as effective as a serious sanction over the team could be. Like, he has suggested over several occasions that teams should be punished either via points’ deduction or in any other way so players or even fans could understand that any racial act would … [Read more...]

English sides are always known to be the biggest payers across the world and that is why every soccer player desires to associate with the top English sides to make his fortune In fact, we have seen in the past how some of the biggest names in soccer openly lured to join a league side, and this central European marketplace is so big that millions of dollars change hands during every transfer window. The surprising facts revealed in just conducted survey by a consulting firm Sporting Intelligence in association with the ESPN and they come with the conclusion that soccer scores higher than any other sports on English soil in terms of money making opportunities. Generally, it is believed that Baseball is the highest paying sport, but this survey set aside these long standing concept and reported that on average first-team player of The Capital One Cup winner earns around $8.1 per year putting them ahead of New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers – the popular baseball sides. However, … [Read more...]

There are countless soccer domestic leagues being played all around the world and some of them rank higher than others, especially if it belongs to Europe. Yes, you guessed it right, we are talking about Championship league and how some of the best teams fight to get a qualification in this UEFA mentored annual event. When we talk about CL, English Premier League comes to our mind, and why not, after all every team tries over here to end at least among the top four to secure a place in the European event, and this year too, this fight continues. Current league table qualifies Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool for the next year’s UEFA event, but one team who is continuously competing for the fourth spot is Everton who has long been predicting to end their campaign residing among the top four. In fact, club chairman Bill Kenwright brought Roberto Martinez with similar expectations that this Spaniard would take them to the Europe. But now, it looks like a daunting task … [Read more...]