Brazilian football legend Pele has cancelled a trip to Russia on medical advice. Pele, 77, had been expected to travel to Moscow to receive an award marking the 60-year anniversary of his World Cup debut against the Soviet Union in Sweden, reports Xinhua news agency. The Brazilian Football Confederation planned to pay homage to the former Santos forward before Brazil...
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and his junior Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday wished the Indian contingent for the 2018 Commonwealth Games (CWG) during a send-off ceremony organised by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) here. IOA President Narinder Batra, along with Secretary General Rajeev Mehta distributed the official kits to the members of th...
Despite boasting of names that can bring India a medal from the coming Commonwealth Games, the dilly-dallying of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) in naming coaches for the gymnastics team is hampering its preparations. There were also reports that the IOA had decided against sending any official -- including coaches -- with the six-m...
Manchester, March 21 Argentine veteran Javier Mascherano is relishing his move to Hebei China Fortune after ending a seven-and-a half-year spell with FC Barcelona in January. The 33-year-old has thus far been deployed in midfield by Fortune coach Manuel Pellegrini, having been mostly used as a central defender during his time at Barcelon...
Chelsea left back Marcos Alonso comes from a footballing family which has seen both his father and grandfather (both also called Marcos) play international football for Spain. Now, aged 27, Marcos Alonso junior has finally received a call up into the Spain squad for the forthcoming friendly matches against Germany and Argentina. It is a rew...
Lazio defender Martin Caceres has been removed from Uruguay's national squad for the China Cup due to injury. The 30-year-old suffered a recurrence of a left calf injury while warming up for Lazio's Italian Serie A clash against Bologna on Sunday, reports Xinhua news agency. The Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) issued a statement on Tuesd...
Italian Roberta Vinci, a former US Open finalist, was one of the highest profile casualties of the qualifying round for the women's draw at the Miami Open tennis tournament after she lost in straight sets to Switzerland's Viktorija Golubic. The 35-year-old Vinci, ranked 166th in the world, lost 6-4, 6-3 on Tuesday to Golubic, 10 years her junior and ranked 99 p...
India's top chess players have started gearing up for a podium finish in the Olympiad -- to be held at Batumi in Georgia this September -- by, well, starting their day playing table tennis. Playing table tennis is part of the physical exercise for the Indian Olympiad team members at the coaching camp currently being held in a five-s...
Indias Shubhankar Sharma will enter the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies...
A change in his diet has helped Argentine FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi not...
