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Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo has joined Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr on a 2-1/2 year contract, the club announced on Friday, after leaving Manchester United to become a free agent.Ronaldo departed Old Trafford last month following an…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid tribute to Brazilian football legend Pele after the latter died aged 82. Pele, whose full name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, died Thursday after a long battle with cancer. A number of eminent…

Footballing legend Pele, who is also a three-time World Cup winner, passed away at the age of 82, his daughter confirmed on Instagram on Thursday night. The footballer gained immense fame in the world of football, and scored a record 1,281…

Pele, the planet’s most famous footballer, the sport’s first superstar and the only player with three World Cup titles, died at the age of 82 on Thursday.Pele’s death comes 51 years after he last kicked a ball for Brazil (July 18, 1971).…

The stadium where Brazilian soccer great Pelé played some of the best matches of his career will also hold his funeral on Monday and Tuesday.Santos, the club where Pelé played in Brazil, said in a statement the public will be able to pay…

Brazil legend Pele, one of the greatest footballers of all time, died at the age of 82. The news of his demise was confirmed by his daughter on Instagram late on Thursday night. The former Brazilian footballer died of colon cancer after he…

A day before India began the knockout rounds of the Thomas Cup finals, the team was far from confident. The 3-2 defeat against Chinese Taipei in the last league game had let doubts creep in.Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty had…

Kenkre FC blanked Sellebrity FC 3-0 in an Elite Division match of the Mumbai Football Association League at the Neville D’Souza ground.In the 22nd minute, Silvester Serrao found the back of the net to give Kenkre a 1-0 half-time advantage…

One of India's footballing greats, Tulsidas Balaram, who was instrumental in the country winning the 1962 Jakarta Asian Games gold, has been admitted in a multi-speciality hospital here to undergo treatment for urinary infection and…

Manchester City continued their dominant run as Premier League resumed following the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Playing their first match in the league after the World Cup, the defending champions eked a 3-1 win over Leeds United at their…

The FIFA World Cup 2022 final was not just a clash between Argentina and France, rather it was a rivalry of sorts between France's Kyalian Mbappe and Argentina's Lionel Messi too. Messi-led Argentina triumphed and lifted the World Cup…

Erling Haaland continued his incredible season in front of goal with a brace to help Manchester City cruise to a 3-1 victory at Leeds United on Wednesday, ensuring the champions closed the gap to Premier League leaders Arsenal to five…

36 Years long wait for Argentina was over when the South American team defeated France in the final of FIFA World Cup 2022 and became World Champions. Led by captain Lionel Messi, it was the third title victory for them, having won in…

Marcus Rashford scored his 10th goal of the season to help Manchester United beat Nottingham Forest 3-0 on Tuesday.The England international also set up Anthony Martial's goal as United moved to within a point of fourth place in the…

2022 can easily be summed up as Cristiano Ronaldo's worst year in football. The 37-year-old failed to find a suitor in the summer transfer window and then fell out of Erik ten Hag's favour. The Portugal captain featured in only 10 Premier…

The FIFA World Cup final saw Argentina producing a phenomenal performance as they defeated France on penalties to lift a third title. Lionel Messi scored a brace as he ended a long wait for a World Cup title, even as France's forward…

In 2011, the India cricket team got less than a week to savour a World Cup win because another season of Indian Premier League beckoned. It’s marginally better for Argentina but as elite club football resumes next week, the varied physical…

Brazilian soccer legend Pele's family members gathered at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo on Saturday, where the 82-year-old, widely considered one of the greatest footballers of all time, has been since late November.Doctors…

Pele's daughter posted a photo of the Brazilian football legend from his hospital bed in Sao Paulo on Friday with the caption "one more night together."In the photo, Kely Cristina Nascimento is seen hugging her 82-year-old father, with…

The World Cup final ended nearly a week ago but the drama around it continued as the match referee showed a photo on his phone during a news conference to respond to claims that Lionel Messi's extra-time goal should not have…

George Cohen, a defender who played on England's World Cup-winning team in 1966, has died, the English Football Association said Friday. He was 83.Cohen played every minute of England's victorious campaign on home soil. He made 37…

Lionel Messi is on cloud nine having won the first World Cup trophy of his career as Argentina surpassed France 4-2 via penalties in the final of the touranment, five days ago. The World Champions were welcomed with lot of pomp and show…

FIFA is taking “appropriate internal action” to address breaches of World Cup protocol by a celebrity chef who held the gold trophy on the field, soccer's governing body said.The chef, who is known as Salt Bae and is regularly seen with…

Manchester City beat League Cup holders Liverpool 3-2 in a cracking game on Thursday, taking the lead three times before holding on to reach the quarter-finals.Defender Nathan Ake headed in what proved to be the winning goal in the 58th…

She may be out of action due to injury but the limelight rarely ever abandons PV Sindhu. The two-time Olympic medallist struck the headlines once again, this time for her moolah as Sindhu was named the world’s 12th highest-paid female…

Lionel Messi has been the toast of the town not just in Argentina but almost the entire globe after the talismanic footballer led the South American giants to their third World Cup glory in Qatar on Sunday. And if reports are to believed,…

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has no doubt that Lionel Messi is the greatest player of all time and his opinion would not change even if the forward had not guided Argentina to the World Cup title in Qatar, the Spaniard said on…

Who is the greatest ever footballer - Messi or Ronaldo? The debate between Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina's Lionel Messi continues to linger despite the latter winning World Cup last Sunday. Both footballing icons had never…

France missed out on a golden chance to become the first team since 1962 to successfully defend the World Cup title. The Les Bleus endured a tough 2-4 defeat in the penalty shootout against Argentina as both teams finished 3-3 after the…

France star Kylian Mbappe returned to training with Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday just three days after he ended up on the losing side despite scoring a hat-trick in the World Cup final.The 24-year-old cast a despondent figure in the…