Under coacing of Md. Habib and Sujit chakrabarty few students of that Haldia CSF Academy are playing now some Famous teams of India and National Football team.

Today at Barasat Stadium IFA has signed a MOU with the Stadium Authority North 24 Parganas Zilla Parishad for a 25 years of lease. IFA secretary Mr. Utpal Ganguly, North 24 Parganas Zilla Parishad Sabhadhipati Mr. Bharat Das , District Magistrate Binod Kumar, Local MLA Smt. Bithika Mondol, Stadium Aevisory committee member Mr. Manas Mukherjee was present in the occasion.

20% boys of the Academy will be selected from verious parts of North 24 parganas District. A swiming pool , a Lawn Tennis court, will be there in the Stadium complex in future. The open area of the stadium will be covered in future also. IFA will pay Rs 84,000 yearly to Stadium Authority for using the Stadium. 10 Committee members will be selected for looking after the stadium , in which five will be from IFA and five from Stadium Authority.

Floodlighted Barasat Stadium, which was established by Famous Indian Crickter Kapil Dev's company is situated at heart of the the district head quarter of the district North 24 parganas. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. The town is an important railway and roadway junction. Barasat is also the name of a sub-division centering the city.

Barasat Stadium is the venue of I-League Matches, AIFF Santosh Trophy, AIFF and IFA verious age group Football Tournaments, IFA Premier Division to other Division League Matches , IFA Shield, IFA Trades Cup, Bayern Munich Friendly Matchs, East Bengal, Mohun Bagan, Mohammedan S.C residential camp, Indian National various age residential camps so many other Football and sports related programmes.

Sporting Goa star Cavin Lobo scored two and Chirag United striker Branco Cordozo scored the another. Lobo scored 3 goals out of his teams 4 goals so far. Upto goals less first half Goa's Carvalsho got a chance to score but his shot touched the cross bar and went away.

Goa took lead in 59th minutes of 2nd half through Cavin Lobo when got a pass from his sporting team mate Adil Khan. Cavin doubled his score in the last minute of schedule time while Branco scored the third and last for Goa from a corner kick with a nice header in addd time 92 minutes. In the first match of Group A Services beat Karnataka 2 - 1 and jumped in the 2nd spot of the table with 3 points just after Goa's 6 points.

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I was talking about Commonwealth Games. But the state of football is no different in the country of 120 crores people. After every World Cup often one question is raised " Why can't a country of more than 100 crore people, find out 11 good players who can take the nation to the biggest sporting show on earth"? I am sure the same question will be raised after 100 years as well. Every one comes up with opinion in this country rather than executing it.

Thousands of Indians travelled to South Africa to see the World Cup soccer, millions more saw it on the televisions. But how many of them willing to know how an African country hosted the show? The infrastructure, economy and all other things are almost the same in Southern most African country and India.

Still they are succesfully hosting the world cup and we are struggling to host an event like Commonwealth Games, which is almost no where near the massive soccer world cup.

If the Africans made the difference, they made it beacuse of their willingness to execute rather than blaming each other. This game should be stopped and that could lead the country to events like World Cup football one day.

Amit Roy : South Africa

Special VIP guests from Manchester United will host the all important Opening Ceremony & Draw at 7. 30pm on Tuesday 3rd August at Manchester United’s Carrington training complex - where teams will fight their way through group and knockout matches from 4-6 August. The grand finale will be played at Old Trafford’s “Theatre of Dreams” on Saturday 7th August at 12.30; following the unveiling of United’s new first team line-up in their first Open Training session of the season.

Originally founded by Nike in 1993, Premier Cup was taken to new heights ten years later when Manchester United added their name to the tournament where youngsters - from grassroots teams to some of the biggest names in football - meet in the ultimate test of their abilities, their passion and their desire to win in the Manchester United Premier Cup.

Over a million youngsters have enjoyed the MUPC experience to date, many going on to become global superstars. No fewer than 25 tournament "old boys" were called up to represent their country in South Africa- including an incredible SIX players in Spain's championship-winning side, namely Torres, Fábregas, Piqué, “Xavi” Hernández, Iker Casillas and winning goal-scorer Andrés Iniesta.

Iniesta was Tournament MVP and also scored the winning ‘golden goal” in 1999 as FC Barcelona lifted their first Premier Cup World Trophy:

“Premier Cup is a “dream come true” for young footballers. Such an intense level of competition is a great opportunity to test and improve your abilities against some of the best young players in the world. You should take pride in your performance and work hard for your team – every second of every match.

“Obviously I wish the team from Barcelona all the best – but to every young footballer travelling to Manchester: Give it your all and make the most of this opportunity to pursue your dreams – your future starts here!”

Chhetri leaves the Wizards with only 1 competitive appearance. A 45 minute appearance for the Wizards, starting in the US Open Cup qualifier against Colorado and a 21 minute sub player of Kansas - Man Utd friendly. The Wizards signed Chhetri from Dempo SC in March, making him the first Indian to join an MLS team.

Chettri told that he would be happy to rejoin the national squad which is currently training in Portugalchig of Bob Houghton. With the transfer window open, the Wizards could certainly look to replace Chhetri?

Indian captain Bhaichung Bhutia will be joining the team back in Portugal tomorrow after recoverig from his thyroid problem. He was forced to return to India on June 15 from Portugal camp.

It was for the first time soccer lovers of Kolkata and India saw with their own eyes the level where world football had reached. The precision passing, man-to-man marking, dummy runs and out-of- the-world free kicks were all dished out by the powerful Uruguayans.

Kolkata football lovers will once again witness the presence of a successful Uruguayan World Cup footballer who won accolades in the recently concluded 2010 FIFA World Cup. He, Diego Forlan fresh from his successful World Cup commitment was perhaps the only footballer to have mastered the whims of the “Jabulani”, directing his lethal free kicks within the goal.

The others, more often than not sprayed the ball all over the park. Now as Forlan steps onto the hallowed turf of the Yuba Bharati Krirangan (Salt Lake Stadium) on the 1st August, 2010 he will be one of the many successful and talented footballers who have honored us in the past by their valued presence, Nascimento Silva (Pele), Gerd Muller, Chinaglia, Roger Milla, Diego Maradona, just to name a few.

Will present at Salt Lake on 1st August to cheer the Challenger's XI team for the Grand Finale against Mohun Bagan of "The Match".

Diego Forlan, the Uruguayan World Cup star, a gentleman footballer par excellence (a rare breed these days) comes from a family of footballer and is the son of Pablo Forlán Lamarque (born July 14, 1945 in Soriano), the retired Uruguayan footballer. As a professional footballer Pablo played for Peñarol (1963-1970), São Paulo FC (1970-1976) and represented Uruguay in the 1966 and 1974 FIFA World Cups. Diego Forlan’s maternal grandfather, Juan Carlos Corazo, played for Independiente in Argentina and was Uruguay’s coach in 1959-61 and 1962-64.

Diego’s sister Alejandra Forlan is head of the ‘Fundacion Alejandra Forlan’. All the family members including Diego Forlan support Alejandra Forlan to run her foundation in a best possible way. For Diego Forlan his sister is his aspirator and a role model.

Alejandra Forlan was crippled when she was just twelve years old. In the year 1991, she met with a terrible car accident collied with a road side Palm Tree, that claimed the life of her boyfriend. Sadly, the accident made her paralyzed, and only able to achieve mobility with the help of a wheelchair. But the cost of the related medical procedures was beyond the family’s means.

At the time, the family had virtually no way of footing the bill, which was nearly $250,000. Luckily, Forlan’s mother met former the 80s soccer legend Diego Maradona, who was gracious enough to help her and the family.

Seeing Maradona’s gesture to step up for his family cause, inspired Diego Forlan too. At that time he was just 12 years old. From that moment on, Diego Forlan felt driven to become a successful professional footballer in order to look after his family better.

Alejandra recalled her brother’s vision for greatness immediately following the accident. “The first thing he said to me while I was lying in the hospital was that he would be a famous soccer player, and that he would get the money needed so the best doctors in the World can treat me.”

As a child, Forlan went to an English-speaking school and played tennis every day for several hours. Soccer was just a twice weekly affair. He could have become a pro in either sport, but soccer took over. Alejandra Forlan Foundation was inaugurated in 2009 with two primary objectives: reduce the high traffic accident rates in Uruguay, and work for the fulfillment of the rights of persons with disabilities resulting from this problem. Very rarely does such a young person have the foresight to set such lofty goals. Diego Forlan also excelled on the tennis court. Good thing for Uruguay he stayed with the family sport.

Earlier, Forlan had prophesized that Uruguay would be the surprise team of the 2010 World Cup. The 31-year-old then helped make it happen, scoring three goals in the Celeste’s run to the semifinals.

He left Uruguay when he was 17 for Argentina’s Independiente and at age 19 debuted for the team coached by Cesar Luis Menotti, who had guided Argentina to the 1978 World Cup title. Forlan's 40 goals in 91 games for Independiente caught the attention of Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson, who bought him for more than $10 million in 2002 when he was 23.

Forlan won three English Premier League titles with Manchester United, but after scoring only 17 goals in 98 appearances, Forlan moved to Spain, where he excelled. With Villarreal he won the La Liga title, the Pichichi, and the European Golden Shoe as the top scorer. He repeated the double feat with his current club, Atletico Madrid.

On the eve of this World Cup, Forlan helped Atletico Madrid win the Europa League, scoring both goals against Fulham in the 2-1 final triumph. After becoming the star he promised he would be, Diego Forlan supported his sister’s foundation that advocates for road safety in Uruguay. And in 2005 he became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Alejandra also advocates for the rights of the disabled through UNICEF.

Nicknamed “Cachavacha” after an Argentine cartoon witch he is said to resemble, Forlan tried to conjure some more magic in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He was perhaps the only player who came to terms with the “Jabulani” and helped Uruguay finish in the top four.

Trailing upto 86th minutes of the match against Delhi, 29 times Santoh Trophy Champion Bengal managed to made 1 -1 draw against Delhi courtesy Jayanta Sen, at their first Qr. Final group league match in Group B at Salt Lake Stadium today.

Delhi scored first in 40th minutes of the match when Vikash Rawat shot deflected from Bengal Keeper Sandip Nandi's hand and follower Bhuban Joshi lobbed ball towards unmarked Tuishim whose back header went to the goal. Arnab Mondol was unable to block him. Robin Singh lost a chance to score for Bengal in 15th minutes of the math. His shot was saved by Delhi keeper Pronoy Roy brilliantly. Delhi was leading 1 - 0 upto first half.

In 2nd half session, Bengal equalised three minutes before ending of the match through midfielder Jayanta Sen, who got a back pass from sub Gouranga Dutta and managed to earn one point.

BEN: Sandip, Dhanarajan, Azim( Safar), Arnab, Rajib, Jayanta, Tarif ( Sankar), Snehasish, Denson, Subhash( Gouranga), Robin.
DEL: Pronoy, Vikash, Yogesh, Monu (David), Bhuvan, Bijendra, Golmei, Pushpender, Tuishim , Ashish (Ashish), Mohinder ,

Referee: Andrew Shekhar (Karnataka)
Assistant Referees: Pratap Singh (Uttarakhand), A.Arjunan (SSCB)

The other two co-organisers are Poshim Banga Itihas Samsad and history department of Presidency College.The seminar was graced by two renowned sports historians Dr.Kaushik Bondopadhyay and Dr.Boria Majumdar as speakers, while Professor Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, former professor of Presidency College presided over the session.

In his inaugural speech Professor Kaushik Bondopadhyya discussed the different aspects of Mohun Bagan’s Shield win and explain how essence of nationalism is visible in this sporting victory.

Dr. Borea Majumder analyze the debate between the nationalist eliment and sports success of the historic event in an unique way. Dr. Majumdar in his speech thanked Valerian Soccer Foundation for organizing these kind of timely seminars and tried to point out that the memory of 1911 is just fading out from the memory of people and a countable has taken place on this subject.

Dr. Joyshree Mukhopadhyay head of department, History Presidency college delivered vote of thanks .Other notable person participated in the seminar are historian Professor Manju Chottopadhyay,Abani Roy,MP, Professor Susnato Das, and others.

The speeches were followed by an interesting question-answer session. A good number of listeners of scolars, stubents and sports personalities attended the seminar.