World cup is just seven month away and every qualified team is tiding its shoes to present itself as the toughest opponent in front of the world. This biggest soccer event has ever been one of the most popular sporting events around the world, and this year too, its curiosity is touching the sky, thanks to its host Brazil where soccer is a region in itself. Off late, Brazil could never be a team as they are famous for and to make a significant change in their world up campaign, football association recalled their favorite Luiz Felipe Scolari to manager the affairs. This is the same 65-year-old soccer brain who made them won 2002 world cup event and expecting a similar return, Scolari has done some impressive changes to the squad; we have seen the results in just concluded Confederation Cup which Brazil won impressively. Actually, every time a host is the biggest contender for any world cup and Brazil is just following the tradition to claim itself as the biggest possibility to keep the … [Read more...]

Posing another blow to upcoming world cup host, FIFA has decided to test urine samples of all the players, not in Brazil, but in Switzerland – a move that can doubt Brazilian laboratory’s credential to property do the job. Apparently, it was earlier decided that all the samples would be tested in the host country at Ladetec laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, but after its accreditation was revoked by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), world’s soccer governing body decided to take the services of laboratory in the Olympic capital of Lausanne. The decision could bring a new embarrassment for Brazilian authorities as they are already under pressure after allegations of corruption in world cup expending and repeated extensions for widespread pending development work over there. It is actually not so simple to take the blood the urine samples across the Atlantic as it would cost more money to FIFA, yet governing body seems to be agreeing for an extra cost head into their balance sheet. Many … [Read more...]

No matter how controversial it is, soccer world cup has always been a most popular sports event around the world and it is proved once again after a rapid sale of its tickets – within seven hours! It was the second phase of tickets sale and more than 230000 tickets were available in this slot, but surprisingly, they all were gone by within hours FIFA put them in sale through its website. This is when some of the high profile matches were not included in this phase as well, and if we compare this turnaround with that of first phase, it is just unbelievable. In fact, organizing committee is also surprised to see a mega success of the event despite rising doubts over the sever protests that everyone saw during just concluded Confederation cup. Around 890,000 tickets were allotted in the first phase and around 230,000 tickets were in the second phase totaling 1.1 million for the first world cup in Brazil after 1950. Everybody is taking it a mega success for Brazilian government who has … [Read more...]

While Brazil world cup protest is being watched by the whole world, especially by those fans who want to visit this part of the world for upcoming mega soccer event, a problem with 2018 world cup seems to be raising its head. Yes, we are talking about racism and how old this sickness has been in USSR. This time, an incident happened at 78 Spartak Moscow on Wednesday where a group of hooligans demonstrated how dangerous they can be if their demands are not met. Apparently, many black players have said recently that they will boycott the 2018 world soccer event if Russian government does not ensure a fair treatment to them. Few days ago, a Championship match between league club Manchester City and Russian club CSKA brought into the notice the ground realities and how wider the gap is between Blacks and Whites in Russia. Apparently, City midfielder Yaya Toure was racially abused via nonstop chants and UEFA disciplinary committee later asked Russian club to ban a part of the stadium. This … [Read more...]