National Team

Indian football national Coach Wim Koevermans has named his final list of 23 for the AFC Challenge Cup 2014 (Qualifiers) which kicks-off in Yangon on March 2, 2013. India who have been clubbed with hosts Myanmar, Chinese Taipei and...

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...

“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...

KOCHI: The first batch of the Indian Senior National Team including Head Coach Wim Koevermans, Captain Sunil Chhetri and current AIFF Player-of-the-Year Syed Rahim Nabi arrived in Kochi on Saturday (February 2) for India’s International Friendly against Palestine scheduled to...

National Coach Wim Koevermans named his squad of 20 for the International Friendly against Yemen scheduled to played in Guwahati on November 14, 2012 (Wednesday). Koevermans, under whom India had won the Nehru Cup in September maintained it’s a very...

Sunil Chhetri has confirmed that he will be joining the Indian football team that will take on Yemen in an International friendly in Guwahati on 14th November. Sunil, who plays for Sporting Lisbon B has a club commitment on 11th November.  Sporting...

SINGAPORE: “It’s pretty obvious,” Singapore’s Serbian Coach Coach Radojko Avramovic stated. “It’s obvious Indian Football is marching ahead and I feel at a rapid pace,” he commented. “India played in the Asian Cup in Doha and had some good matches. There are...