Brazil World Cup 2014

Drumming Up For The Brazil World Cup 2014 – Tidbits Leading to Football’s Super Event

 April 14, 2014   R K Gupta

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Brazil and the rest of the world await for the upcoming football festival, which is now less than two months away. One by one, the FIFA is unfolding preparatory events, towards the run up to the 2014 World Cup, one of the most celebrated football shows in the globe. The scale of World Cup is […]

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Japanese Angels Crowned FIFA U-17 Women’s 2014 World Cup Champions

 April 5, 2014   R K Gupta

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After displaying their superior football skill for over two weeks in Costa Rica, the Japanese U-17 women emerged as worthy winners of 2014 World Cup. For the umpteenth time in the tournament, Captain Hina Sugita was named as the player of the match. The little bundle of Japanese dynamo, moved around purposefully and her combination […]

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FIFA’s Year of Two World Cups and One of Them Gets Underway Tonight

 March 16, 2014   R K Gupta

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While the whole world waits for June 2014, when the year’s biggest sporting event unfolds at Brazil, scores and scores of bright little angels will be seen storming on the football fields of Costa Rica from tonight. A new sporting chapter will be appended in the football history books of Costa Rica, where the fourth […]

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Champagne’s orange card proposal should spark serious FIFA debate

 January 21, 2014   John Welsh

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In announcing his bid to succeed Sepp Blatter as FIFA President in 2015, Jerome Champagne has provoked much discussion with his idea of introducing orange cards as an extra disciplinary measure for offending footballers. He has suggested that the card could be introduced for ‘in-between heat-of-the-moment fouls’ immediately following a yellow card, which would also […]

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Australian Open 2014

FIFA and Qatar should study heat issues affecting Australian Open

 January 16, 2014   John Welsh

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During Wimbledon fortnight the only weather which usually affects playing time is the British rain when tennis action is only possible on the covered courts. Conversely, the Australian Open is Melbourne is being affected by extreme heat prompting Croatian Ivan Dodig to declare that he thought he might die during his match. Dodig withdrew due […]

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Glamour and Glitterati of the World Cup Draw

 December 8, 2013   R K Gupta

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Two days ago, Kridangan.com’s specialist football writer, John Welsh presented a realistic analysis about the strengths of participants after the final draw, which was the first major event of the FIFA World Cup 2014. It was a glittering ceremony, held in the picturesque resort of Costa do Sauípe, Bahia on December 6, 2013. This article […]

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Zinedine Zidane’s infamous act

Zinedine Zidane – An Intriguing Footballer of His Time

 November 25, 2013   R K Gupta

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Football 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

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After 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

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A 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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Women Administrators to Ensure Incident-Free World Cup

 October 30, 2013   R K Gupta

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In less than 230 days from now, the opening kick-off for next World Cup will take place at 1700 hrs. local time, on June 12, 2014 in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city. World’s greatest football show will continue to enthrall soccer fans around the world until July 13, when the final game is played at […]

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