Zinedine Zidane – An Intriguing Footballer of His Time
November 25, 2013 R K Gupta
FIFA, FIFA World Cup, Football, Zinedine ZidaneFootball lovers watching the Italy-France World Cup final in Berlin on July 9, 2006, were witness to a sad spectacle, when Frenchman Zinedine Zidane forcefully rammed his head on Italian Marco Materazzi’s chest, felling him on the ground. Zidane was promptly red-carded and his football career came to a sour end. The match went to […]
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The Intriguing Process of Final Draw for FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil
November 24, 2013 R K Gupta
FIFA, UEFA World Cup, World Cup 2014After over two years of qualifying rounds featuring 207 nations and 816 matches, the end came last Wednesday with Uruguay qualifying as the 32nd and final team to clinch a place for 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Except the debutant Bosnia-Herzegovina, most of the favorites cemented their places, including eight former world champions. Ukraine were […]
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With Qualifiers Over, All 32 Teams Decided for Brazil World Cup
November 24, 2013 R K Gupta
FIFA, FootballA bit of what follows in these lines has already been reported by Kridangan’s most celebrated football writer, John Welsh in his yesterday’s post. But the FIFA World Cup is such an exhilarating sporting event that avid sports readers keep looking for every scrape of football news, as long as it is relevant to the […]
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UEFA World Cup Play-off drama may affect moral at club level
November 21, 2013 John Welsh
Real Madrid, Ronaldo, UEFA, UEFA World Cup, Zlatan IbrahimovicFollowing a dramatic night of World Cup play-off action in Europe, four teams emerged to join the nine group winners as UEFA representatives in the 2014 summer tournament to be staged in Brazil. The victories of Greece and Croatia were perhaps fairly predictable but for the other two ties, the impact may not just affect […]
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Major Highlights of Bundesliga 2013-14 Season
November 18, 2013 R K Gupta
Bundesliga, FootballThe German Bundesliga has traditionally been among the top five European Football Leagues, along with the English Premier League, Spain’s Primera Division or the la Liga, the Italian Serie A and French Ligue 1. While the English Premier League, by far, is the most talked about and full of highly competitive teams, Bundesliga scores over […]
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UEFA World Cup play-offs contrast with qualification elsewhere
November 17, 2013 John Welsh
UEFA, UEFA World CupAs the main football leagues in Europe have a free weekend with international football taking centre stage, World Cup qualification suddenly becomes thrust into the spotlight. For those countries involved in the UEFA procedure, it is a fairly routine method with nine group winners and the victors of four play-off matches between the eight best […]
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Improving Sunderland and Wearside curse deny Manchester City
November 10, 2013 John Welsh
Football, Manchester City, Premier League, SunderlandOn a Premier League weekend when Arsenal’s lead at the head of the table was reduced to two points and Manchester United proved that they will not easily yield the title, it was lowly Sunderland who produced the shock result by defeating title contenders Manchester City. The match had virtually been described as a formality […]
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World of Football and the Charismatic Lionel Messi
November 9, 2013 R K Gupta
FC Barcelona, Lionel MessiCharacteristically, football is such a hot topic in Europe that sports lovers are continually exposed to not just the news on the game of football in different leagues, but also to incessant rumours about players linked to inter-club transfers. The football websites and newspapers are full of juicy stories on topics that include players, clubs, […]
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Gareth Bale Turning Into a Charmer
November 6, 2013 R K Gupta
Gareth Bale, Real MadridEver since Gareth Bale joined Real Madrid, not an instance has elapsed that the Spanish press stopped watching him with a microscope. The focus would not have so intense if Real had drafted Kaka or say Wayne Rooney, instead. The scribes are keeping track of Bale’s every small nuance with the hope of proving somehow […]
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Garcia intent on repeating his Lille success at Roma
November 5, 2013 John Welsh
Football, Roma, Rudi Garcia, Series AWhen Torino drew 1-1 at home to Roma on Sunday evening, it ended a 10 match winning sequence for their opponents from the start of the Italian football league season. No team has ever achieved this feat in Serie A but for team which finished sixth and seventh in previous seasons, there must be a […]
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| # | Player | Point |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viktor AXELSEN | 72,500 |
| 2 | PRANNOY H. S. | 66,730 |
| 3 | CHOU Tien Chen | 61,240 |
| 4 | Jonatan CHRISTIE | 61,110 |
| 5 | Kodai NARAOKA | 55,370 |