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Gurgaon, 5th July 2014: To celebrate the World Cup and Indian kids’ passion for the beautiful game, Paris Saint-Germain Academy India is staging free training sessions at Shiv Nadar School Gurgaon this week-end. Just a few hours after Paris Saint-Germain stars Mautidi, Cabaye, Silva and Luis played on the biggest World scene, kids from Gurgaon had […]

Yes. It is dubbed the “Greatest Show on Earth”. Yes. The timing of the matches is a wee bit (writer’s prerogative) inconvenient for our part of the Earth. But no, I will not refrain from watching as many matches as it is humanly possible. Well for a human infected with malaria, at least. Before anything […]

Would you have ever bet that a player in the Football World Cup will bite another player? Would you? If so, how much money would you bet? Would you bet 2000 Euros? A man in Sweden did just that. He predicted, based on past occurrences of course, that Luis Suarez will bite a player in […]

It has been a little over two weeks since the football fiesta that was the 2014 FIFA World Cup came to an end. What an end that was with Shakira dancing, Carlos Santana playing the guitar and Mario Gotze sneaking in a goal at the 113th minute! The Germans partied hard, apparently so hard that […]

For a country whose football team has not made the World Cup Finals in a long, long time, we Indians are still strangely very interested in following it on TV. If there ever was a Wikipedia page on the Indian Football World Cup follower, it would probably read like this: The Indian Football World Cup […]