Tag: Football

Welcome to Al Jazeera’s Sport Weekly newsletter, which explores the intersection of sport with politics, culture and money. You can sign up here. For those exhausted by supporting club teams on the slide or stressed by the vagaries of fantasy football, this week brings the more pedestrian pace of ...

Saudi Arabia women's national team entered Fifa's women's world ranking for the first time in March this yearWhile stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and Karim Benzema have taken men's football in Saudi Arabia to the next level, the country was already an Asian powerhouse and home to some ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – Last week, Englishman Stephen Constantine was named as the new coach of the Pakistani men’s national football team and tasked with ending a dire run by winning the country’s first-ever World Cup qualification match and, in the process, ending a five-year, 13-match losing streak. Constantine’s squad ...

Fifa has already done its bit to help the national team of India, backed by a country with a population of 1.4 billion, qualify for the 2026 World Cup by increasing Asia’s automatic allocation from four to eight. Now there is growing pressure on New Delhi to make a ...

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter It might not necessarily be considered a typical football nation, but a striking new academy has been launched in Pakistan with Uefa-accredited coaches.Lahore, the capital of ...

Mancini, who led Italy to the Euro 2020 title but failed to take them to the Qatar World Cup, had quit as Azzurri boss earlier this month.Roberto Mancini has been named as the new coach of the Saudi Arabia national team on a deal reported to be worth more ...

Excelsior Sports CorrespondentGANDERBAL, Aug 25: The 9th edition of Kashmir valley’s biggest Football tourney Kashmir Mega Football Tournament concluded today at Indoor Stadium Sehpora, Ganderbal.The grand finale was witnessed by the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Vijay Kumar Bidhuri along with Additional District Development Commissioner Ganderbal, Mushtaq Ahmad Simnani.The tournament which ...

Gandhinagar (Gujarat) , August 19 (ANI): Crime Investigation Department (CID) ADGP Raj Kumar Pandian, Gandinagar on Saturday dismissed allegations that an alleged Chinese national visited the state and duped 1200 people of Rs 1,400 crore in a span of nine days and termed the allegation as 'false"The official further ...

A meeting with a drug-addled school student in 2019 left Hinan Manzoor so shaken, the 29-year-old MBA decided he had to do something about the turmoil in Downtown Srinagar.It did not seem so long ago that the culturally rich Shahar-e-Khas, or Downtown, had been the vibrant centre of Kashmiri ...

JEDDAH: The Saudi Arabian Cricket Federation’s board of directors held its sixth meeting recently in Riyadh, under the patronage of Prince Saud bin Mishal, during which members discussed important topics including events and tournaments, the organization’s accomplishments, its financial and human resources policies, committee reports, investment opportunities, and key ...