Indian Football Blog

Kolkata derby is back.  The return leg of I league game between Mohun Bagan & East Bengal is just a few hours away.  After that dreadful 1st leg,  the organisers are extremely cautious in the 2nd leg. Mohun Bagan,...

National Coach Wim Koevermans has named 30 probables for the Preparatory Camp for the AFC Challenge Cup (2014) Qualifiers. The Camp will kick-off at the Bharatiya Vidyapeeth premises in Pune from February 12, 2013. All the Players and support...

Salgaocar FC, along with Salcete FC are organizing an All Goa U-13 Football Tournament in association with Bank of India, Canara Bank and Syndicate Bank. The tournament will be held on the 23rd and 24th Of February 2013, at PJN Stadium (outside Ground)...

In a dramatic turn of events, Nicky Butt and Mikael Silvestre, the two high-profile footballers are all set to join the Dodsal FC team for 2nd Division I-league it seems. According to a source, the two players are arriving today...

India lose lead and match India 2 (Clifford Miranda – 17th; Syed Rahim Nabi – 39th) lost to Palestine 4 (Ashraf Alfawaghra – 30th and penalty in 48th; 65th) Husam Abusalah – 46th) By Nilanjan Datta, AIFF Media Team KOCHI: Bands, bugles, banners. Flags, festoons and...

KOCHI: Captain Sunil Chhetri stays aware of the demands of an International Friendly. A day prior to the kick-off of India’s match against Palestine, Chhetri spoke at length to www.the-aiff.com about the mood in the Camp, team-spirit, his assessment of Palestine, recreation...

Indian football team will be facing the Palestinian national football team in an international FIFA friendly on 6th February 2013. The match will be telecast live on India sports channel Ten Action. This channel is available in the whole of...

“We have some new faces in the squad. All of them please step forward,” Wim Koevermans pronounced in the team meeting. Sandip Nandy, Lalkamal Bhowmick, Arata Izumi, Shouvik Ghosh, CK Vineet and Gurjinder Kumar obeyed the orders. And then,...

KOCHI: During his prime days, he stayed the darling of the crowd wherever he played, needless to say in any position. Less than a decade after retiring from the sport, Joe Paul Ancheri, when reminded, smiles. “Those were different days,” he...

KOCHI: National Coach Wim Koevermans has brought in a number of new faces for India’s International Friendly against Palestine. In a freewheeling interview with www.the-aiff.com, Koevermans, who coached India to triumph in the Nehru Cup spoke at length about his ‘shadow...