Bengaluru FC will hope to take a giant stride towards qualifying for the Indian Super League playoffs when it meets Chennaiyin FC at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium on Tuesday. Placed fourth in the table with 34 points from 21 matches, Gerard Zaragoza’s men are on a two-game winning run. They also haven’t conceded in either…
Russia will no longer have a seat on the influential UEFA executive committee after the European football body’s elections in six weeks. Also, Norwegian official Lise Klaveness is the only candidate for a new quota place for women, UEFA said on Monday (February 24, 2025), and football great Andrii Shevchenko stands for the first time…
Rahul Bhekeâs 37th-minute strike helped Bengaluru FC notch up a narrow 1-0 win over Chennaiyin FC and seal an Indian Super League playoffs berth at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium here on Tuesday. After winger Ryan Williams was needlessly fouled by D. Vignesh, Alberto Noguera sent a superb delivery from the resulting set-piece. Defender Bheke, unmarked…
Borussia Dortmund legend Paul Lambert, who had marked and successfully contained Zinedine Zidane in the 1996-97 Champions League final to help the Black and Yellow defeat Juventus 3-1, was on his first visit to India for a short training camp with the Murugappa Youth Football Academy (MYFA) at the end of January. Lambert, who has…
Roma’s Alexis Saelemaekers celebrates scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Roma and Monza at the Rome’s Olympic stadium, Italy, Monday February 24, 2025 | Photo Credit: Alfredo Falcone Mallorca scored a dramatic stoppage time equalizer at Sevilla to salvage a 1-1 draw in La Liga on Monday (February 24, 2025). The result moved…
In the Indian cricket landscape increasingly driven by the Indian Premier League and T20Is, Shivam Dube has been tagged as a T20 specialist batter. The man himself, though, served yet another reminder for being seriously considered as an all-rounder and stressed on his ambition of playing Test cricket with a five-wicket haul in Mumbai’s Ranji…
Gujarat Giants paid the price for their over-aggression as Mumbai Indians’ bowlers, led by off-spinner Hayley Matthews, delivered a clinical performance to bowl them out for 120 in their Women’s Premier League match in Vadodara on Tuesday (February 18, 2025). The Giants, trying to muscle the ball with big hits instead of building partnerships, saw…
He had dismissed Ajinkya Rahane, India’s Test series-winning captain Down Under, off the first ball of his ninth over. Then he accounted for Suryakumar Yadav, India’s T20I captain at present, off the third ball. But it was the wicket of Shivam Dube two balls later that meant the most for Parth Rekhade, a rookie allrounder…
Former India cricketer Hemang Badani added another feather to his cap as a coach after masterminding Dubai Capitals to the ILT20 league title last week. Badaniâs other titles as a coach include the Lanka Premier League (Jaffna Kings) and the SA20 with Sunrisers Eastern Cape, where he was the batting coach. Prior to that, he…
Mohammed Azharuddeen needed a DRS review to overturn the on-field decision off the final ball of the first day’s play between Gujarat and Kerala in the Ranji Trophy semifinal here and remain not out going into the second day. The wicketkeeper-batter went on to bat the entirety of day two, playing over 300 deliveries to…
