BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, who also holds the post of director at ATK Mohun Bagan, has decided to step down from the position in the Indian Super League franchise to avoid any potential conflict of interest.
Sukanya Verma lists 10 unique Salman ways in which the star declared his feelings of 'falling in love' to his onscreen sweetheart in the movies.
The preliminary and play-off matches will be held in April.
ATK Mohun Bagan defeated Kerala Blasters 4-2 in the opening game of the 2021-22 Indian Super League, at the Nehru stadium in Fatorda, Goa, on Friday.
Playing against Mohun Bagan on a slushy and jam-packed Eden Gardens on September 24, 1977 in the twilight of his career, the three-time World Cup winner was overwhelmed by the depth of talent a "little known" Indian club possessed.
ATK Mohun Bagan will meet Bengaluru FC in the ISL final, following their semifinal win over Hyderabad FC.
Behind closed doors and with a raft of health safety measures in place, Indian Super League (ISL) will kick off in Bambolin on Friday and become the country's first major tournament to be organised since the enforcement of a COVID-19 lockdown eight months ago.
The ISL will kick off in Kochi with Kerala Blasters taking on two-time champions ATK on Sunday, and Ganguly will be present on the occasion.
Earlier in the 16th minute, Ashutosh Mehta showed excellent skills and tried to create a chance from the right flank. CFC defenders intercepted the attack before he could hand the ball over to Manvir Singh.
FC Goa's slim chances of making the semis all but went up in smoke as they remained on 18 points from 17 outings.
Bagan adopted a completely different approach from the first leg. They had 16 shots in the first half but just three on target. It took them just three minutes to sound a warning.
Atletico de Kolkata were guilty of missing too many chances and were held to a goalless draw against FC Pune City in their concluding group encounter of Hero Indian Super League at Rabindra Sarobar Stadium, Kolkata, on Friday.
The result means ATKMB could not break into the top-four, remaining fifth with 20 points from 12 games.
The Super Cup will get underway from April 3, where Kerala Blasters has been grouped together with Bengaluru FC.
The result stretches BFC's winless run to six matches.
Indian centre-back Sandesh Jhingan feels he will be "tested to the limit" while enhancing his game outside his comfort zone at Croatian league Prva HNL.
Despite losing the top spot to Mumbai, ATK Mohun Bagan will still harbour hopes of salvaging their season with a second successive Hero ISL title.
A video uploaded on ATK Mohun Bagan's Instagram page, which has since been deleted, captured the 28-year-old defender as saying, "Aurato ke saath match khel aaya hoon, aurato ke saath" (I have played a match with women, with women), as he made his way back to the dressing room, at Vasco in Goa, on Saturday.
The Blues will be back in action on August 18 when they take on ATK Mohun Bagan in their opening group stage clash, at the same venue.
ATKMB looked the likelier of the two teams to take the lead in the opening exchanges, with the Mariners needing two goals at least to make a comeback.
Nassiri is son of former East Bengal legend Jamshed Nassiri, who was known for his powerful headers in the '80s.
Sandesh Jhingan will become the first India international footballer to play in the Croatian top-tier league Prva HNL after completing a move from ATK Mohun Bagan to HNK Sibenik.
India get three slots for AFC competitions in 2023-24 season.
India cruised to a 3-0 win over minnows South Africa to progress to the semifinals
The result also meant Khalid Jamil is still unbeaten in the competition and extended NorthEast's winning run to ten games.
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The enormous structured global advertising machinery that surrounds every football game on the planet today? Pele was perhaps single-handedly responsible for all of it. By just being brilliant, captivating crowds, and behaving like a being from the future, doing things that STILL provoke oohs and aahs from watchers. Vaibhav Raghunandan salutes the Incomparable Pele.
Roy Krishna had a couple of half-chances thereafter but good reflexes from Mirshad Michu in NorthEast goal and Krishna's inefficiency to keep the ball on target kept the score to 1-0.
'This is a wonderful opportunity, but there is also a lot of work ahead of us and I am eager to get onto the training ground to start working with the players.'
It was a second successive draw by the Csaba Laszlo-led side as they once again squandered plenty of chances to settle in the seventh place with 10 points from eight matches.
According to Jhingan, not being able to play in the ISL or international matches would have been more frustrating for him.
India head coach Igor Stimac feels this may be the final season of talismanic striker Sunil Chhetri's career.
The central midfielder became a vital cog in Juan Ferrando's side in the second half of the last ISL season following a deadline-day switch from ATK Mohun Bagan in the January transfer window.
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Hyderabad made a disastrous start to the game as Chinglensana Singh was sent off as early as the fifth minute.
Jamshedpur FC took a major step towards securing the ISL Winner's Shield after a dominant 5-1 victory over Odisha FC
'For a very long time I could not bring myself to watch several of their films because I couldn't see them depressed, in trouble or dead on screen.' 'It was hard to separate my parents from their characters, so I stayed away.' 'It was only after I became an actor that it became a job requirement.'
In what could be a game-changing move for the struggling East Bengal, EPL giants Manchester United may end up taking the ownership of one of oldest football clubs in the country.
Images from the soccer matches played across Europe on Saturday.
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