Everybody knows that racism plays a decisive role in every player’s career, especially if he does not belong to top soccer playing nations like Brazil, Europe, or North America. It is proved again when a City midfielder blamed social treatment given to his African teammate despite proving his worth again and again for the league club. French footballer Samir Nasri has come in support of 30-year-old center back Yaya Toure and called him one of the best center back who did never get the recognition he deserves because he is an African. Both Nasri and Toure came into the media headlines when they scored for City in the Capital One Cup final on Sunday. According to French international, Toure has been a proving starlet who has long been showing his finest ball holding skills; in fact he has also won best African Player of the year award for three consecutive years. He did not hesitate in labeling him as the best midfielder and world should applaud a talent like him. If he would have … [Read more...]

There are many managers who made exaggerated promises when join a big club, but later, fail to deliver hence face the anger from every corner. We have seen what is happening with Manchester United manager, but things are not that bad for their arch rival Manchester City and its manager Manuel Pellegrini who just won the first title of the season, in fact first in Europe, and more importantly, first silverware under new leadership. The highly optimistic Chilean football manager had said when joined the English biggie that he would win at least four titles in the first season and standing by his words he got the debutant crown to prove his confidence. They defeated Sunderland by 3-1 in the final of Capital One Cup and Yaya Touré, Samir Nasri, and Jesús Navas were the goal scorers for them while Fabio Borini scored the first goal for The Rokerites. Pellegrini called this win as an important to take their momentum to the Premier league where they were once at number one and now at number … [Read more...]

Money has ever been a motivating force in soccer; in fact this is the only game where money roles faster than anywhere else. To provide a level playing field across the soccer playing nations, European governing body even introduced Financial Fair Play policies but they did not provide the atmosphere everyone had expected. Clubs still spend mounting money to lure their choice of players and adjust the money paid with different tricks into their financial statements - we have seen how Neymar issue is being dragged into the court. If we look at current system, cost of hiring players in a transfer window has increased by more than forty percent to what it had been in the similar period last year, which means, clubs are exaggeratedly willing to throw away any price for their lovely players irrespective of what FFP says. On one side, it helps players earn more than they used to be, but on the other side, it also concentrates finest talent of the game to few high rich soccer clubs and this … [Read more...]

Soccer fraternity is a kind of strange one for everyone including players who have been a part of it since many years. Further, there are many untold regulations being followed by every playing team and one such rule of the game is if you are growing by age and not performing as expected by your bosses, you will soon be axed from the team either via letting your contract expire or by switching you to somewhere else on loan. The 31-year-old Spanish goalie Pepe Reina is one such player who is under contract with English club Liverpool, but since he could not prove his form to be the number one goalie, he had to leave Anfield for Naples where he spent one season under Rafael Benítez, former high profile Chelsea manager. He then appreciated Benitez and openly called him the best manager to have worked with. Though, he had already guessed that his loan spell will never let him return back to England hence also written a goodbye letter to Liverpool fans, but still, he used to be an … [Read more...]

Violence has ever been a part of soccer, in fact, usually it is being linked with the losing team reaction towards the defeat and most of the time fans are involved in it. We have seen how some of the biggest tragedies happened on football grounds after a high profile match, especially when underdogs perfume better. Championship league is one of the widest recognized tourneys comprising almost every big European team and when it comes to its last sixteen, emotions start overcoming actual strengths and this is what seems to be happening in European league. Reportedly, BVB - a German football club - defeated Zenit – a Russian football club- and we saw how some groups of BVB fans reacted over the defeat. According to local police, several Dortmund fans were chased and assaulted by several groups of peoples later identified as Zenit fans. Zenit St. Petersburg is the same stadium where Championship League last-sixteen match will soon be played hence this violence could mean a lot for UEFA. … [Read more...]