By addressing "I LOVE KOLKATA" , to the present Football fans in the ground , the legendary footballer won the kolkata football fans heart.

The winning team was felicitated by the Star Brazilian after the match. About 6000 footballers and 462 para (AREA) took part in the Tournament. Winner got Rs 40000 and the Runners up got Cash 25000. Six selected footballers from the participants will be trained in Bayern Munich, Germany.

During the broadcast of the game against Colorado on 17th July, Wizards President Robb Heineman confirmed that Sunil Chhetri will play against Manchester United on the 25th. Being a friendly match and the Kansas has an unlimited number of subs, it makes sense to give Sunil a crac against Man United.

It will be the largest soccer crowd in Kansas City history. The Wizards estimate that 60,000+ tickets have been sold for the game.

Wizards will sign their second ever designated player, Mexican international Omar Bravo. They have signed Greek defender Nikos (Nick) Kounenakis.

ABOUT THE MANCHESTER UNITED PLAYERS

GOALKEEPERS

BEN AMOS – 20-year-old goalkeeper made his first team debut in September 2008.

TOMASZ KUSZCZAK – The Poland international made a stunning penalty save in his United debut.

EDWIN VAN DER SAR – The Dutch international is his nation’s most capped player.

DEFENDERS

WES BROWN - A veteran defender who has 23 appearances for England’s national team.

RAFAEL DA SILVA – 20-year-old Brazilian right back.

FABIO DA SILVA – Rafael’s twin brother, “Fabio” plays on the left.

RITCHIE DE LAET – Belgian international signed in May 2010.

CORRY EVANS – Northen Ireland born Younger brother of defender Jonny Evans.

JONNY EVANS – Older brother of defender Corry Evans has 19 international appearances for his country.

JOHN O’SHEA – Ireland international has played every position – including goalkeeper – during his 11 seasons with United.

CHRIS SMALLING – Former Fulham defender.

MIDFIRLDERS

TOM CLEVERLEY – 20-year old dynamic player.

DARREN FLETCHER – Fletcher was named captain of the Scottish National Team in August 2009.

DARRON GIBSON – Republic of Ireland Nationalal teams Player.

RYAN GIGGS – Nicknamed “The Welsh Wizard,” Giggs has played for Manchester United his entire professional career

NANI – Portuguese international unable to play South Africa World Cup for injury.

GABRIEL OBERTAN – French international Is currently involved in the French under 21 squad.

PAUL SCHOLES – The 35-year-old midfielder represented the England national team in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups.

FORWARDS

DIMITAR BERBATOV – The all-time leading goal scorer for Bulgaria’s national team (48 goals in 78 appearances).

MAME BIRAM DIOUF – Senegalese international.

JAVIER HERNANDEZ – Mexican World Cupper in South Africa 2010.

FEDERICO MACHEDA – 18-year-old Italian forward known as “Kiko”.

DANNY WELBECK – Rising Nigerian young striker.

GOALKEEPERS: Avhijit Mondol(DEMPO), Somnath Khara, Swarup Das(GEORGE TELEGRAPH)

DEFENDERS: Justine Stephen (MAHINDRA UNITED), Arnab Mondol, Safar Sardar, Chika Wali (F - PUNE FC), Sukhen Dey, Subhasish Roy Chowdhury, Nausad. P (VIVA), Bapi Saha (EASTERN RAILWAY), Narugopal Hait, Sergei Tokov (F- PUNE FC), Melwin Rodriguesv(SALGAOCAR).

MIDFIELDERS: Denson Devdas, Lalkamal Bhowmick, Nacimento Silveria (CHURCHILL BROTHERS), Asif. K (MALABAR UNITED), Md. Rafique (TOLLY GUNGE), Subho Kumar(MOHUN BAGAN), Malswama Tulunga, Zerry Zirsangha ( DEMPO), Soumik Chakrabarty, Subhash Chakrabarty(MUMBAI FC), Gouranga Biswas, Santa Kumar (MOHUN BAGAN), Cirajuddin .C (VIVA).

FORWARDS: Josimar Da Silvav(F), Sankar Oraw, Branco Cordozo (MOHUN BAGAN), P.C.Lalampiua.

U-19; Subhajit Majumder (MOHUN BAGAN), Ram Malik, Munna Malik, Sabir ALi, Bibhash. TD : Subrata Bhattarchyya
PHYSIO : Garcia (Brazil)

The plastic horns, popular with football fans at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, have already been banned by some Football League clubs. The horns have been heavily criticised by players and fans.

Club Officials told that ther are concerned that the presence of Vuvuzela pose unnecessary risks to public safety and could impact on the ability of all supporters to hear any emergency safety announcements.

On the otherhand another EPL newly promoted team Blackpool, who have asked fans to bring vuvuzelas to matches.

Today’s programme was started with the brief introductory speech of Subhransu Roy, the President of the Valerian Soccer Foundation. After that three renown personalities –Mr. Anilava Chattyopadhyay, Mr. Shivaji Banerjee and Mr. Samrat Mukherjee presented their speeches on three different perspectives of the historic triumph.

Anilava Chattyopadhyay was the first speaker of today’s seminar. He is the producer of an under production film which is based on the historic IFA Shield win of Mohun Bagan in 1911. Mr. Chattopadhyay in his brief speech discussed about the perspective and researches about the historic win of Mohun Bagan in 1911 which has been done by him and his team for the making of this film.

Ex- national footballer (Goalkeeper) Shivaji Banerjee analyzed about the method of play behind this historic win of Mohun Bagan in 1911. In this regard he gave special emphasis on the enchanting spirit of the Mohun Bagan team shown in the IFA Shield of 1911 especially in the final match.

Samrat Mukherjee presented his unique paper about the background as well as the consequences in the socio-political aspects of Indian history even in the post colonial India. In his fantastic presentation he gave special emphasis on the concept of ‘struggle and assimilation’ as a controlling catalyst in this regard.

After the speeches the session experienced an enchanting question-answer period. Among the listeners personality like ex footballer Bernard Oparanzie was present today. Aritra Chatterjee, the Secretary of the Valerian Soccer Foundation informed that the next seminar of this series will be take place on 24th July in the Institute of Historical Studies.

With FIFA seemingly keen to award the 2018 event to a European bid, the four Asian Football Confederation members bidding to host the tournament opted to focus on the 2022 race, in which the US is the only non-Asian bidder.

“To be honest, I don’t want Asian countries to win the bid for the 2022 World Cup as it would be impossible for Asia to host two World Cups in a row,” Wei was quoted as saying by local newspaper China Daily.

“South Korea and Japan have already held the World Cup. Qatar is too hot and the population is small, how could there be enough spectators? Australia is also an Asian country in terms of soccer. I hope the US will win the bid so we’ll have a better chance,” he said.

After attending this year’s World Cup in South Africa, the CFA president announced last week it will submit a request to the sports ministry seeking approval for a formal bid to host the tournament in 2026.

Source:www.sportsbusiness.com

Maharashtra and Karnataka will meet in Pre quarter Final match at Salt Lake Stadium on 21st July.

Jharkhand   1 - 6   Karnataka
JHR: Rabindar Singh
KAR: R.C.Prakash, Satish Kumar, Xevier Vijay Kumar, J.Murari, Ngurneilal - 2

Maharashtra   4 - 1   Tripura
MAH: Anees K.- 2, Surojit Bose (Pen), Darren Calderia
TRI: Kiron Chetry

His another team mate Braco who came in the City of Indian Football few days ago were present at the launching ceremony at ITC Sonar Bangla Hotel. Romario will attend tomorrow a Football Tournament at Alipore Body Guard Line as a guest.

GOALKEEPERS : Abhijit Mondol (Dempo), Abhra Mondol (East Bengal),Somnath Khara (Chirag United),Sandip Nandy (Chirag United)

DEFENDERS :Rajib Ghosh (Mohammedan S.C), Habibur Rahaman (Mohun Bagan), Soumik Dey (East Bengal), Dhanarajan R (Chirag United), Sh. Azimc (Mohun Bagan), Safar Sardar (Chirag United), Arnab Mondol (Chirag United),Anupam Sarkar(Mohammedan S.C),Soumik Dey

MIDFIELDERS : Snehasish Chakrabarty(Mohun Bagan), Subhsash Chakrabarty (Mumbai FC), Gouranga Dutta (Chirag United), Tapan Maity ( Air India), Denson Devdas (Chirag United), Souvik Chakrabarty ( Mohun Bagan), Md. Rafiq (Tolygunge Agragami), Jayata Sen (Chirag United), Lalkamal Bhowmik (Chirag United),

FORWARDS : Sankar Oraw (Chirag United), Tarif Ahmed (ONGC), Nilendra Dewan (Mohamedan S.C), Robin Singh (East bengal), Bikash Narzinary (Eastern Railway).

COACH : Sabir Ali

Player's team as per last season. Bengal Final list will be released on 26th July.

The FIFA just after the World Cup-2010 conducting the Beach Soccer Seminar with the aim of popularize, promote and develop Beach Soccer an attractive modality of Football in Asia and shall serve as a platform for the exchange of experience and ideas amongst the representative of the member countries invited for the same.

From 8th to 16th December, 2010 the Sultanate of Muscat will be conducting the 2nd Asian Beach Games 2010 with the participation of 45 Countries in Asia. Altogther at the venue a total of 5000 players in different beach games are expected to be in Muscat. The Beach Soccer competitions will be conductued in accordance with FIFA Beach Soccer Worldwide rules and regulations.

Gabriel E Joseph who is representing the Asia has served in different capacities in the field of Sports and proved his mettle as a player, coach, referee, administrator and a writer on football. He had also earlier coched various National Football team of India a number of times. As the Director of Coaching, AIFF his contributions are enormous at present for the development and promotion of the Football coaches and Football Instructors in India. He is the Senior most AFC Instructor of India and conducted various licence courses in different parts of the Country.

He had his Football trainings in Germany, Brazil, FIFA Academy, NIS India, different AFC courses upto the module one of Professional courses conducted by the AFC/UEFA in Malaysia at different times. He was the first Indian in the Techncial study group for the for the AFC in Thaiand and SAFF Championship in Nepal.

He was also the first person to bring out the Technical Study books for the National League and Federation Cup. In the year 1998 he had completed the 4th National Technical Directors Coaching Seminar conducted by the AFC in co-operation with FIFA in Kuala Lumpur. In the year 2009 he represented India as the Technical Director for the Seminar conducted by the FIFA in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where he was the leader for the Countries of the SAARC region.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, July 13, 2010 The Football Injury and Prevention Management seminar an INJURY FREE SPORTS initiative by Steadfast Sports and Adventure Academy (SSAA) provided information on understanding of injuries, treatment and prevention, was a success with more than 200 Players, Parents & Coaches attending the seminar held on 11th July 2010 at St. Andrews School, Bandra, Mumbai.

At the seminar, Dennis, Mentor SSAA, emphasized the reason of this initiative and importance of parental participation. Dr. Sandeep Kurale - Sports Physiotherapist who is associated with the Indian Football at the highest level presented the Parental role in understanding Injuries, corrective and preventive measures. The parents who had turned up in large numbers were an indicator of concern for their Childs health, which they voiced in the Q&A session.

The Chief guest for the occasion Mr. Godfrey Pereira - former Indian Captain of Indian Football and currently associated with Air India FC, Mr Xaviera Faria - Secretary football MSSA, Mr. Karim - Ex Khalsa hockey team Coach & Sybil Miranda - Ex Captian, Air India hockey team shared their experience on the importance of INJURY FREE SPORTS life.

Mr. Godfrey Pereira who is still in seen in the local football circuit is a delight to watch, " It is result of Injury free sports life". Mr. Faria thanked Steadfast Sports and Adventure Academy for organizing the much needed awareness through this initiative and was certain that it will strengthen Indian Football. Mr. Vinod Nalawade, Director of SSAA wished the future Rooney's, Kaka's, Mesi's, Ronaldo's and Muller's a safe football season.

The star SSAA football performers for 2009-10 were felicited for their performance in the Maharashtra State team and U15 Manchester United Cup Zonals. Dedicated to football players and sports development, the SSAA provides football training with conscious understanding of parental support.

He joined as coach of Southern Samity - the newly promoted football teams in SAHARA CFL - Premier League of IFA. Southern Samity have a big plan to mark their promotion to the CFL Premier Division. It has been learnt that, Mumbai based Wellknown Bengali singer Shantanu Mukherjee (Shaan), recorded the team’s theme song for the upcoming season which is trying to release soon.

Vijayan recently passed AFC B-License course in Hosur conducted by the All India Football Federation's coaches director Gabriel Joseph has a one-year contract with the club, said that he hoped his stint in Calcutta will help him boost his coaching career. He is pleased to return in City of Football and optimistic that he would be able to deliver the goods with the club.

Vijayan, whose last stint in Calcutta, as a player, was with East Bengal, also expressed his good feeling to come back Kolkata. In future he wants to get an AFC ‘A’ license and his ultimate aim was to get associated with the national team.

TEAM LIST OF SOUTHERN SAMITY : 31 Signed so far.

Amit singha Roy (GK), Chandan Das, Rufus, Binoc Malik, Md. Saqib, Dipankar roy, Debayan Saha, Rajib Ahmed, Ekramul Mallick, Anit Ghosh, Jamir Ali Mondol, Bidesh pal, Sabir khan Samuel, Meesam reza, Kartik Chatterjee, Uken Deb barman, Suman Bose (U-19), Sanjivan Ghosh, Me. Yasin, Sabir Khan( u-19), Sk. Sanjib, Sk. Sarwar Ali, Gotam Das, Sk. Montazul, Rahul Bhatterjee, Francis Xavier, Mriganka Sharma, Pradip Nag (U-19), Arindam Das, Asto Karar, Mahesh Sarkar.

FIFA announced the All-Star team, looking at the names that made the list, its quite clear that the champion Spain dominated with their excellent performances in South Africa. 6 members of the Spain team, and only one player – Brazil’s Maicon . The teams also features three right backs (Maicon, Sergio Ramos, Philipp Lahm) and no left back as well as two central attacking midfielders (Wesley Sneijder, Xavi).

The most surprising exclusion from the team is Golden Boot winner Thomas Mueller, who led the tournament in scoring at the tender age of 20.

Goalkeeper: Iker Casillas (Spain)

Defenders: Maicon (Brazil) - Sergio Ramos (Spain) - Carles Puyol (Spain) - Philipp Lahm (Germany)

Midfielders: Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands) - Xavi (Spain) - Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany) - Andres Iniesta (Spain)

Forwards : Diego Forlan (Uruguay) - David Villa (Spain)

Coach: Vicente Del Bosque (Spain)

One of the 16 Teams of the CFL Premier League, George Telegraph S.C has signed 31 footballers for their coming season.

Another 9 players will sigh within a few days.

The players are :

Lakshmi Ram Soren, Jidul Molla (Modammedan AC), Indrajit Barui, Barun Oraw (Peerless), Manoj Singh (Aryan), Souvik Biswas, Saikat Patra (Peerless), Tanmoy Karmakar, Tanmoy Paul, Subhasish Chakrabarty (Wari AC), Raju Chakrabarty (Milan Samity), Ganesh Bar, Pintu Prasad, Babu Mondol, Palash Pal, Rajdeep nandy, Krishna Burman (Tarun Sangha-Delhi), Raju Mallik (Aryan), Shankar Roy, Amit Sardar (Barisa S.C), Mithun Saha, Avijit Das (Customs), Kisun Ghosh, Biswarup Dev (Bhawanipur Club), Biswadeep Das (U-19), Souvik Mondol (U-19), Sajal Das (U-19,Janbazar S.C), Sanat Dhali (U-19, BNR), Siladitya Seth (U-19, Milan Bithee), Rajib Bhattacharyya (Howrah Union), Raja Thakur (Barisa S.C).

Coach Stanley Rozario was presented by a group of Fan club members with a scruf, a bouquet of flowers and a memento of 1911 picture.

As the Season marks 100 years of the historic shield victory, the members of fan club hope that this year their beloved team would come with some outstanding results to make this a memorable year.

And in its usual traditional styles of the past,Sabuj Maroon Swapno Fan club members presented a Cake in the design of a football green field, which was cut by the coach and was distributed to the team members and other supporting staffs. Former Lajong F.c coach Stanley enjoyed the Fan club's programme very much.

Premier India Football Academy (PIFA) organized the Champions tour to England – a football tour for children 9-16 years. The tour has been designed by PIFA to help children to learn to play football as well as appreciate and understand the history of English football and what makes these clubs them so special. Thirty three children were taken to Old Trafford Stadium (Manchester United) & Anfield Stadium (Liverpool FC). The children got an extensive guided tour of the Stadium and their Museum.

The children also got to see an English Premier League match from the Bullens Road stand at Goodison Park. Everton’s final home game against Portsmouth. The match was won 1-0 by Everton FC. Football training was conducted through the week by the UEFA licensed coaches from Inspire Academy. The children played 2 friendly matches against Vauxhall FC U16 boys & Altrincham FC U11 boys, both matches ended in a tie.

The children were treated to a training session at the Liverpool FC Youth Academy in Kerby. Young Steven Gerrard & Michael Owen have graduated through the Youth system. Each child underwent a fitness and skills test. The skills winner was Vikhyat Sinh from Jameshedpur with a score of 630 points. The group was accompanied by two adults from India ensuring that the children totally focus on football and enjoy themselves.

This has been PIFA twentieth camp to Europe, the next camp is to Barcelona. The proceeds of these camps are utilised to develop teams from the PIFA Colaba community football project undertaken by NGO - PIFA Foundation for benefit of sports.