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Our 'soccer' stadia hosted two FIFA events in the not so distant past; they are already world class. Our NT has been doing okayish for some time now; although nowhere close being a world beater or an Asian giant - yet. Our Fed is also developing a 4 tiered league system with promotions and...

A lot of top European sides have excellent scouting network spread across the length and bredth of Africa to pick up upcoming talents - who would then be groomed by European clubs. Eventually, a handful of them would indeed make it big and end up representing their country of birth. Not to...

Lord Stimac is spewing BS; he was terrible when he was managing Croatia and is universally hated out there for his antics so no surprising. He is also a terrible strategist - how on earth does one experiment in a fucking WC qualifier? Even the way he was appointed looked pretty suspicious back...

How many players belonging to their regular squad have dual citizenship? We don't have that luxury; it would require continuous heavy investment on youth development throughout a decade at the least to do it the hard way. There is no easy way here since top down approaches do not work across...

Arre calm down na; the issue is completely political now. In all probability Sarvanand Sonowal will be the next Prez; and since the GoI is directly intervening the matter should be over in a while and Sonowal would be lauded as the 'hero'. How many of you know that India is also planning to host...

Massive respect for Sunil Chhetri the footballer but the fact that he relentlessly lobbied for the incumbent administration, FSDL, the national team manager Igor Stimac (appointed through backdoors) and above all, his agency is something very few people know about. Don't give too much attention...

The way the BJP machinery is tirelessly going after praful (even OpIndia is running full page reports) I think Sonowal is all set to become the next Prez of the AIFF. Well, anyone is better than Praful I guess ......

There are politicians everywhere all across the globe and FIFA itself is corrupt and so are the Latin American FAs; with their ties to drug lords and mafia leaders. It does not prevent them from being footballing powerhouses. Ours are corrupt and incompetent.