New Delhi, July 12 -- After 100 matches, 292 goals (the best rate of goalscoring since the 1970 World Cup), 537 saves, the miracle of Cape Verde, Japan's captivating geometric beauty and far-too-early... Read More
New Delhi, July 11 -- Sunil Chhetri loves to recount the story of how he started playing football. His parents tell him that he was kicking a ball as soon as he could walk. His father, an army office... Read More
India, July 10 -- Football is the world's most-loved sport, yet it once belonged, if it can be said to belong to anyone, to one country. Brazil was football, and football was Brazil. That was where t... Read More
New Delhi, July 5 -- For all the breathtaking goals being scripted at the World Cup, how is it that players are fluffing their lines when they have to take penalties? Germany, who have never lost on ... Read More
New Delhi, June 28 -- What better stage to showcase find the best new talent in world football but the World Cup? A couple of great performances at football's biggest stage can catapult lesser known o... Read More
New Delhi, June 21 -- If the first round of matches at the 2026 World Cup proved anything, it was this: the expansion of the tournament to 48 teams has not diluted the quality of play one bit. In fact... Read More
India, June 13 -- Is modern football devoid of beauty, soul, and spirit? Is it shackled by the voluminous variety and depth of data and its analysis? By obsessive, controlling coaches scanning for pat... Read More
New Delhi, June 5 -- The ball turns, the world turns," wrote the inimitable Eduardo Galeano, in Football in Sun and Shadow (1995), the book one must turn to when World Cups come around. As the 2026 v... Read More
India, May 29 -- Gurindervir Singh is the fastest man in India. There was a time, just a few years ago, when that statement didn't mean much; in fact, national records only served to highlight how far... Read More
India, May 15 -- "Faster, Higher, Stronger," goes the Olympic motto, and it was never truer than now. World records are falling at a frenzied rate, and news of incredible athletic feats appears to com... Read More