Though soccer has ever been taken as the European predominated outdoor game but its popularity has been immensely high in the entire world hence we have a national soccer team in almost every country we know about even though they do not stand anywhere on world standard. Asia is one such region which is not taken as a threat on any level for European sides, hence most of the Euro clubs do not want to hire players of this region citing the obvious reasons and this is possibly be the first time an Indian player is about to debut his soccer career playing for a European club. Yes, you read it right, 24-year-old Indian goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu is all set to play for Norwegian Tippeligaen club Stabaek in Thursday's Europa League qualifier game against Welsh Premier League club Connnah's Quay Nomads. This is definitely a good news for all the soccer fans and aspiring soccer players here in India as they can now dream of playing with some of the biggest soccer names if they could … [Read more...]
Liverpool lose Europa League Semi-final first leg game to Villarreal by 1-0
Liverpool seems to have lost its ground in FA Cup as well that is why they failed to impress anyone in the Thursday's Europa League semifinal first leg at Villarreal. Although, margin of defeat was just 1-0 but it was more a psychological loss than the in-field disappointment and manager Jurgen Klopp accepts that his team played rather immaturely, although, excused their experience for all the nasty mistakes they did. However, first half was a tight finish when both the sides struggled to score the net and it was the second half when Villarreal's Cedric Bakambu could score the winner for his side. Moreover, one goal first leg advantage would help Spanish club prepares better for the return leg to be played at Anfield next week and looking at their last night show, it is highly unlikely they would change current winning combination. Anyways, without being critical to his own team, Klopp issued his gross satisfaction over the show despite the fact that Reds missed several opportunities … [Read more...]