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From roaring crowds to FIFA World Cup absence: What’s holding India back from football’s biggest stage?India's FIFA World Cup aspirations remain distant. Despite widespread passion, the nation struggles to produce elite footballers. Experts p...
Curacao qualified for FIFA World Cup, what's our long-term plan? Indian football comes up in Rajya SabhaIndia's football future was debated in the Rajya Sabha. A Congress member highlighted Curacao's World Cup qualification to question the Spo...
India's second FIFA Talent Academy, first for girls, launched in HyderabadHyderabad is now the official site of India's first-ever FIFA Talent Academy for girls. This initiative, established through a collaboratio...
Bhaichung Bhutia kicks off India's largest football talent hunt across 50 citiesFootball icon Bhaichung Bhutia has launched India's largest-ever football trials to identify and nurture young talent. Covering 50 cities, ...
Legendary coach Wenger to visit India in October to finalise setting-up of central football academy for U-13Legendary coach Arsene Wenger, who is currently FIFA Chief of Global Football Development, is set to visit India in the second week of Octo...
AIFF to appoint 50 referees on contractual basis for Rs 80,000 per monthAIFF President Kalyan Chaubey said that the standard of refereeing can be improved if the Indian referees earn enough money to run their fa...
I’ll do what a footballer is expected to do for fellow footballers: Kalyan ChaubeyWhile both candidates, Bhaichung Bhutia and Kalyan Chaubey, have political affiliations, they are better known for having played the game a...
A football scout for these socially distanced timesAlongside Bengaluru FC, RFYC is one of the two residential academies in India conferred a two-star academy status by the Asian Football Con...
How India discovered their U17 world cup playersDefender Boris Singh was also scouted into the AIFF Elite academy during the U14 national football championships, where he led Manipur to t...
Underdogs unleashed: The story of India's under-17 squadMany in the 21-member team, playing in the first ever FIFA event to be held in the country from October 6-28, had seen their parents strugg...
India rise to best FIFA rankings in 6 yearsIndia, who defeated 114th ranked Puerto Rico in an International Friendly in Mumbai in September, garnered 230 points for the month.
I-League, Indian Super League may be merged"We have proposed to merge the traditional I-League and Indian Super League and conduct one league instead of two," I-League chief executiv...
Indian under-19 football team to participate in Asian eventA 17-member Indian under-19 football squad will participate in the FAM-FRENZ Asia Champions Trophy starting August 19 in Malacca, Malaysia.
FIFA delegation visits GoaA two-member FIFA fact-finding team today wound up its visit to Goa after consultations with various stakeholders about developing the spor...
Stephen Constantine, Ricki Herbert short-listed for football coach's jobEnglishman Stephen Constantine and New Zealander Ricki Herbert, have been short-listed to take over from Dutchman Wim Koevermans as the new...
Familiar story as inactivity threatens India’s World CupIndia was invited. Based on merit. But they didn’t actually make that trip: by most knowledgeable accounts, we just didn’t have the money t...
Sunil Chhetri among five senior players picked for Asian gamesIndian football team captain Sunil Chhetri takes a bow as he makes it to the list of players competing for Indian squad at Asian Games.
Serious changes required in AIFF functioning for Indian football's turnaroundThe number of clubs breaking into the Second Division and I-League is few. I-League, this season, failed to have a 14th team.
JSW bags franchisee rights for Bangalore team in I-league, group forays into footballThe $15 billion conglomerate, has just bagged the franchise for a new team in the I-league run by the All-India Football Federation (AIFF).
- Bharti sets up helpline for Indian soccer fortunes
Bharti will invest a couple of hundred crores and enter into collaboration with the All India Football Federation (AIFF) in a public-privat...