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RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group buys majority stake in Mohun Bagan Football Club

Kolkata Games and Sports (KGS), an RPSG venture, which owns the ATK brand, will be merged with Mohun Bagan Football Club Pvt Ltd to form a new company

Why football fans in Goa are becoming an animated, even belligerent lot

Football fans in Goa are shaking off their sussegado and becoming an animated, raucous, even belligerent lot, writes Aniruddha Sen Gupta

Not here to dance for fans as mascot: Ibrahimovic on his 2nd AC Milan stint

"When you're 38 and get hired by AC Milan it's something that doesn't happen very often, coming here means I still have something to give", the Swedish star said

The price of speaking their mind is particularly high for sportspersons

Mesut Ozil with Turkish roots, chose to condemn the Chinese government's treatment of Uighur Muslims in the country's Xinjiang province

LaLiga appoints Rohit Sharma as first-ever brand ambassador in India

He is the first non-footballer in the history of the league to have signed on the dotted line with Laliga

The Magical Magyars and their considerable influence on European football

Football writer Jonathan Wilson reminds us of a time when the Magical Magyars shaped the world of football

Race to the bottom

As far as Europe is concerned, a credible hypothesis is that racism in sport mirrors the growth of right-wing tendencies in society as a whole, which in turn produces right-wing regimes

Racism on the sporting field needs to stop. Immediately. No excuses

Many players of colour in the Serie A - Kalidou Koulibaly, Blaise Matuidi, Sulley Muntari and Moise Kean - have been subjected to racial discrimination in the past few seasons

How the Indian Super League has effectively taken over Indian football

Five years after the Indian Super League was established, so has its effective preeminence in Indian football

After two draws, Portugal post first win in Euro 2020 qualifier vs Serbia

Fernando Santos' side had started the defence of their title with two draws but goals from William Carvalho, Goncalo Guedes, Cristiano Ronaldo and Bernardo Silva put them second in Group B

EPL 2019-20: When and where to watch week 4 premier league matches

The highlight of this weekend is going to be the North London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur

Slum Soccer transforms the lives of slum children with the help of football

Slum Soccer has won the FIFA Diversity Award 2016 and FICCI Gender Diversity Award 2018. It now plans to mentor talented footballers under 14 years of age

A world cup with a difference

"Slums are a storehouse of untapped talent and many children languish there because of the lack of opportunities"

Suarez reformed?

Suarez's appeals on the pitch against Chile can be considered the lightest of moments in top-tier football

AIFF runs out of money, unable to pay prize money to I-League clubs

A concerned Chennai City CEO Rohit Ramesh corroborated it, and hoped that they would get the prize money

Fans lose faith as mafia and corruption scandals rock Italian football

Over the past decade, media investigations and research have uncovered an unseemly lack of virtue within the industry

Finding football's soul

Top flight football in England is a global phenomenon, more than anywhere else in Europe, more indeed than any league in any sport

'Perfect time' for Indian corporates to invest in football clubs: France

I think there are clubs who are looking for new shareholders, with cash capacity and marketing experience, said Didier Quillot, CEO of France's Ligue de Football Professional

Ole revolution

A month and a half ago the possibility that Man United would be among the Champions League spots would have seemed fully in the realms of fantasy

The Flying Dutchman

The heights that Mr van Persie's career could have hit had he pushed for a move elsewhere - Manchester United, Real Madrid, Juventus, even Chelsea - much sooner, would have been truly monumental