Renedy Singh

Football Fever in Faridabad

Much before cricket usurped all games to become the king of sports in India, there were other games that were followed and played passionately in every corner of the country. One of them was football. In fact, a match between arch rivals MohunBagan and East Bengal would often bring the entire state of west Bengal to a halt. Offices and roads would be deserted as people glued in to the TV and, earlier, to the radio. Every dribble, every pass and feint would be discussed and analysed in great details. It was not uncommon for people to come to blows over a difference of opinion!

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India: Football or Cricket?

I know when it comes to India most people think that there is only one sport that is enjoyed over there. But that’s not the fact. In fact, beside cricket there are many other sports that are played in the country like hockey, kabaddi and football. If you know India just through the media, then you will know that it recently won the cricket world cup and almost all are celebrating the victory. However, you will be surprised to know that India also has a mad following for football. The only reason it does not come up in the media is because the Indian football team is really not that great.

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The Beautiful Game versus Winning Ugly

I don’t know about you, but I had a great time watching the UEFA Champions League final the other night. Not just because it was a great game, or because the players seemed to be wearing particularly brilliant suit fabrics. But because it put paid to all the talk about Barcelona being off their game, or losing their lustre after what they called the “El Fiasco” games against Real Madrid a few weeks back. Barcelona were simply superb. In fairness Manchester United weren’t in any way bad – after all, they were straight off the back of bringing the English league title back to Old Trafford for the nineteenth time, beating Liverpool’s record. It was just that Barcelona showed the world just how good they are. Messi’s goal was perhaps a little bit soft, although still a brilliant finish, but the overall performance was absolutely dominant.
So Barcelona gave a great performance, winning a crushing victory, at the same time as playing a particularly aesthetically pleasing version of the game. But let’s face it, we can’t all be as good as Barcelona, as much as we might like to be. So we can’t all necessarily go out on the pitch aiming to be “more than a club”, and becoming advocates for a particular way of playing the game of football. But this seems like an aspiration to aim for. Failing that though, I’m happy to get involved in a scenario which includes crunching tackles, lobbing the ball upfront, and all the other elements of the classic English game. After all, it’s winning that counts!

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Football fashions

Footballers seem to be wearing weirder and weirder outfits on the pitch. Aside from some of the bizarre strip designs (which they don’t really have any say over) a lot of players, Renedy Singh included, seem to like wearing those 2xu compression shorts that were designed for triathlon competitors. I know for some footballers, they’re essential for recovering from or preventing groin injuries, but so many seem to like wearing them, that I’ve st​arted to wonder if it isn’t a bit of a fashion statement too?

Lots of players in the English Premier League had st​arted wearing those “snoods” this winter – mainly the ones from abroad, to be honest, who would also wear gloves even in the milder spring weather! It became such an issue, with newspapers and commentators all drawing attention to the potential dangers that the English Football Association eventually took steps to ban them. I suppose the worry was that unscrupulous defenders (it was usually attacking players that wore the snood, for some reason) could grab hold of the material and use it to haul them back. Illegal and pretty painful too…

Still, nothing that any footballer has ever worn could match the crazy outfits worn by the Indian Premier League teams. The IPL has just kicked off again in India, and I ’d forgotten how garish and colourful some of the team uniforms are. Orange seems to be a popular colour this year, but once your eyes have adjusted to all that bright, flashy material, the competition has been great fun to watch already. Unsurprisingly, I’ll be supporting the Kolkata Knight Riders in this year’s IPL – after all, that’s now Renedy’s local team!

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Calm down before someone gets hurt!

As all keen football fans would have heard by now Rooney has lost his temper and kicked out at an opposing player once more. Now, I am sure that I cannot be the only one that thinks that this type of behaviour is completely unacceptable! It won’t be long before he will be paying personal injury Trusts compensation to an opposing player that he has put in hospital and seriously injured.

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Tour To Barbados Called Off – Who Is To Blame?

The Indian football team was to play a friendly match against Barbados and had traveled to West Indies for this purpose. The arrangements were found to be inadequate and the management had to put its foot down and insist on better accommodation and facilities for the tour to continue.

The representatives of the organization managing football in Barbados claim that they satisfied all the demands of the football federation. In fact, the All India Football Federation too was pleased with the new arrangements. However, the new coach of the Indian football team refused to continue and insisted that the tour should be canceled immediately.

Is this a behavior on the part of the football coach justified? On one hand, expecting players to adjust despite having been promised a good place to stay does not make sense. In such a scenario, the football coach cannot be blamed for taking this extreme step. I came across this news when checking the prices of diesel Bristol and became very concerned. The Indian football team, despite its talent, is not ranked very high in the world.

This kind of behavior is only going to spread the word that Indian football team is very arrogant and uncompromising. The last thing we want is for a few more practice tools to be called out simply because of logistical difficulties.

The more India plays better will be its chances of improving its rankings. Perhaps the coach should have understood that discretion is the better part of valor and should have accepted the new arrangements provided they were good enough.

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Indians On The Come Up

It’s easy to get down about football sometimes. Things don’t always work out how you expected in the beautiful game, do they? In fact, sometimes it can seem like the exact thing you are wishing for goes wrong the moment you st​art pinning all your dreams on it.

But alas, something good has happened, and now, finally, we have something excellent to cheer about where Indian football is concerned. (Yes, we know we’re greedy and that India does generally do well, but we’d be nowhere without the fighting spirit, right? Well, that’s what

Indian Barry from great hr software says, and if he says that, you don’t want to argue with him because he wears as much as two grown large men.)

We’re talking about the Indian under 13 football team, of course. Because recently they’ve achieved a surprising and excellent result in the Asian Football Confederation Youth Festival (which happened in Yazd, Iran, if you didn’t know). Incidentally, the location of the Festival, Iran, is known universally as one of the leading football nations – but we’re sure you know that. After all, you must know about your Indian footie or else you wouldn’t have found out about this page!

Even though India isn’t new to receiving these kind of accolades, it’s still pretty fantastic to think that the awards held by the veterans are being continued

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What Ails Indian Football?

The coach of the Indian football team has been fired because of certain controversial statements made against the Association. Of course, the criticism that Indian football did not win enough matches during his tenure was also bandied around. However, one must spare a thought for the poor chap.

In a country with more than a billion people, it is just a question of time to find the right talent. However, talent must be cared for and nurtured. Creating a football team from scratch and making sure that it competes with the best in the world is not an easy task. It requires committed sponsors who are prepared to invest in the long term.

Sadly, cricket consumes bulk of the money. This is not a bad thing per se. India has a strong cricket team and sponsors will obviously see more commercial sense in investing in the most popular sport. However, it is pertinent to note that football is a lot more popular as compared to cricket in the world.

One requires a Rowan Dartington approach of patience and foresight when dealing with such investments. Of course, the management of football in India is not professional either. The club scene is run on the basis of political patronage. Frequent controversies, especially when the team is doing well, pulls down the morale of all the participants.

The domestic club culture is not very strong. Apart from a few states like West Bengal and Goa, there is hardly any football culture worth speaking of. No wonder it is surprising that India cannot even qualify for the Football world cup organized by FIFA.

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Cheating on the Field

Football is more popular than ever before. With the popularity comes increased scrutiny on the game. We all are aware that cheating in sports is on the rise and the same is a major concern in football as well. Cheating comes in many different forms such as diving, foul play and dangerous tackles. Though there are penalties to teams for cheating the problem still remains.

There is a way that football can improve itself against cheating. We must watch how other sports deal with cheating. Rugby for instance has on field treatment for those who are injured during the match, this way the match continues in rugby, whereas in a football game players can feign an injury which stops the game thus preventing the other team from scoring. Football is different from rugby as it doesn’t have a zonal format and is much freer flowing.

Players may get legitimately injured in football and need treatment however it should really be left up to the referee to decide how to treat the situation. If the referee decides to continue the game then it would change how footballers play the game. This will help prevent fake injuries which abruptly stop the game and then the supposedly injured player gets back up just fine.

Those in charge of the professional leagues could implement just a bit of change that can go a long way to preventing cheating. Nothing may be done immediately about cheating in professional football but when you put on you skins compression shorts and head out to the field, you can always try to play fair.

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Goalkeeper: the man behind every match

India is a country with millions of sports fans all around. Foot ball and cricket are the two major sports in this country although hockey is the official national sports of India.

Of all the games football is one game that I like. Football or soccer as commonly known is game played between two teams of eleven players each with a ball. This game is played on a field which is rectangle in shape with grass all across the field. On the middle of both ends of the field is the goal with a goal keeper of each team facing each other. The game is all about driving the ball mainly using your foot into the opposite goal.

The other day my friend and me we went out, he wanted to check out a self storage after we return to our surprise there was this match telecast between Manchester united and Chelsea, wow that was an amazing match honestly, I love to watch the goal keeper because a goal keeper is a technical and a skilled guy of course other players do as well. The most important role of a goal keeper is to keep goal i.e. to defend his team’s goal and stop the opposite team from scoring a goal. To take free kicks from deep in their territory and goal kicks. He is only one who is allowed to touch the ball with his hands or arm in a game. Goalkeeper abbreviated as GK takes a place that is the last line of defense between the opposite team and his team’s goal. I love the role of a GK; he has to be alert and tough all the time. So next time you watch soccer match don’t forget to observe the GK.

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