New Delhi, June 17 -- IN the year 2009, a slightly built 17-year-old Brazilian lad flitted about the football field like a bird and scored a breathtaking goal that immediately marked him for greatness... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- EVEN as the attention of the whole world was focussed on the FIFA World Cup being played in Brazil, a country considered to be the Mecca of football, thousands of Brazilians from... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- "Oh, the foes will rise With the sleep still in their eyes And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin' But they'll pinch themselves and squeal And know that i... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- "In the frigid soccer of today's world, which detests defeat and forbids all fun, that man was one of the few who proved that fantasy too can be effective," wrote Eduardo Galeano... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- Even before the greatest market-driven spectacle on earth got underway on June 12, Brazil witnessed a series of violent protests against spending huge sums of money for playing h... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- In 2010, Tomas, a young Brazilian student, was visiting Kolkata. The FIFA World Cup was taking place in South Africa, and football-crazy Kolkata was in the grip of a sporting fev... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- "The Championship is something you either believe in or you don't, like God," wrote Nick Hornby in his seminal book on football, Fever Pitch . Though the Championship he refers t... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- RACE relations are an extraordinarily complex problem that the whole world is finding difficult to deal with as issues of rehabilitating immigrants split the Western world into t... Read More
United Kingdom, June 17 -- Kim Wilde found Michael Jackson "incredibly inspiring" when she supported him on the Bad Tour. The '80s pop icon was in awe of the King of Pop's set during the four-month, ... Read More
India, June 17 -- HomeNational NewsPM Modi Welcomes West Asia Peace Efforts at G7 Summit, Calls for Safe Sea Lanes and Rebuilding Global Trust National News PM Modi Welcomes West Asia Peace Efforts at... Read More