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Bayern Munich have signed a MOU with the West Bengal government to create an academy to sell Bayern Munich shirts help nurture talent...

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Diego Maradona, Argentina legend and now national team manager, will visit Kolkata, India on December 6 2008.

Diego will inaugurate a soccer academy and participate in a charity dinner where some of his playing gear would be auctioned. Thousands...

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It was a sweltering mid-August night in 2008 in the Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi when the Uzbek referee Valentin Kovalenko blew the final whistle. Spectators were climbing the flag poles around the stadium in celebration & the TV commentator...

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Arsenal staff recently held a 2-week coaching program in Calcutta and selected 16 schoolboys for a training program at the Emirates dubbed ‘The Arsenal Way’.

The boys, aged between 10 and 15, are flying out to begin their training...

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When David Gill was asked whether Manchester United planned to go to India for a preseason tour in the future, he told us what we already knew:

That the market in India was huge, that they’d had offers to come play there, that Manchester...

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I felt a mixture of bemusement and enjoyment as I sat and watched the fascinating and lively auction for cricket’s upcoming Indian Premier League. But once I’d got over the amusement of seeing players being bought for different teams in an auction...

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I live in Bangalore, India. The same India that till a little while ago used to single-mindedly focus its billion-strong sporting energies on one sport – Cricket. Why not too? It’s the only sport we were half any good at in the first place. We...

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