Sydney, Oct 16 (IANS) Usain Bolt’s Australian football career could come to a premature end after the owners of the Maltese club Valletta FC offered the Olympic champion a two-year contract on Tuesday. The offer…
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Delhi Dynamos will face ATK in their second match of the Indian Super League (ISL) Season 5 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Wednesday. The hosts come into this…
Seville (Spain), Oct 16 (IANS) England inflicted the first defeat of Luis Enrique’s reign as Spain coach when they beat the Spanish 3-2 at the Benito Villamarin Stadium in a UEFA Nations League match here….
Madrid, Oct 16 (IANS) Real Madrid’s Croatian international midfielder Luka Modric admits that neither he nor his team-mates expected both Zinedine Zidane and Cristiano Ronaldo to leave the club last summer. Zidane stepped down as…
Montevideo, Oct 15 (IANS) Renovating Montevideo’s Centenario Stadium, where the first World Cup was staged in 1930, is part of the work Uruguay must complete as it prepares to host the 2030 global football tournament…
Madrid, Oct 15 (IANS) Real Madrid’s Croatian international midfielder Luka Modric has admitted that neither he nor his teammates expected both coach Zinedine Zidane and star Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo to leave the football club…
Madrid, Oct 15 (IANS) FC Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde has an injury problem less than two weeks before the first ‘Classico’ between his side and Real Madrid with the confirmation that the Catalan football club’s…
Jakarta, Oct 15 (IANS) Indonesia’s national football team is gearing up for a friendly match against Hong Kong on Tuesday. The match will take place at the Wibawa Mukti sport stadium in the West Javan…
Seoul, Oct 15 (IANS) Panama’s caretaker head coach on Monday said his team would be ready to handle the threat posed by South Korea, who come into their friendly match unbeaten in four games. Gary…
Buenos Aires, Oct 15 (IANS) Switzerland’s Patrick Baumann, the secretary general of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), died here of a heart attack. He was 51….
Bengaluru, Oct 14 (IANS) Bengaluru FC clinched their second Puttaiah Memorial Cup after a 2-1 win over Madras Engineering Group (MEG) in the final of the 2018 edition of the competition at the Bangalore Football…
Buenos Aires, Oct 14 (IANS) Argentine legend Diego Maradona feels Lionel Messi is not a leader and should not be considered a footballing god. “We shouldn’t deify Messi any longer. He’s Messi when he plays…
Yerevan (Armenia), Oct 14 (IANS) Gibraltar’s national football team won 1-0 over host Armenia in a UEFA Nations League clash, earning its first competitive victory in its history. Defender Joseph Luis Chipolina, 30, netted the…
Sofia (Bulgaria), Oct 14 (IANS) Bulgaria fought back from a goal down to beat Cyprus 2-1 at home in the UEFA Nations League. The visitors took the lead shortly before half time when Grigoris Kastanos…
Amsterdam, Oct 14 (IANS) A spectacular game by the Netherlands’ left winger Memphis Depay, who scored the second goal and was notable for his technical skills, helped defeat a German squad that looked eternally off-balance…
Dublin, Oct 14 (IANS) The Republic of Ireland played out a goalless draw at home to Denmark to earn their first point in the UEFA Nations League. The visiting Danes, who were missing star playmaker…
Mumbai, Oct 13 (IANS) Tim Cahill, like everyone else, knows the Indian football team will have a mountain to climb in China. But unlike many who are dismissing the visitors’ chances, the ace Australian striker…
Suzhou (China), Oct 13 (IANS) Indian football team oach Stephen Constantine was all praise for his boys after they held continental powerhouse China to a goalless draw here on Saturday. “We have shown in the…
Suzhou (China), Oct 13 (IANS) India produced a sturdy defensive performance to hold China to a goalless draw in an international football friendly here on Saturday. This was India’s first-ever official international friendly on Chinese…
Rome, Oct 13 (IANS) Italian forward Antonio Cassano, who had played for Real Madrid, Roma and both Milan teams, announced his retirement from football at the age 36 on Saturday, asserting that he has no…