Vava keeps his name in record book- the only person to score in the...
Edvaldo Isidio Neto, better known to the world as Vava, has a unique record set against his name. Among the four players who have...
‘Lucky 13’ of Just Fontaine- the record of highest goal in a single Cup...
The 1958 World Cup belonged to the Brazilian great Pele. But there was another man; a lesser-known Frenchman who created history. Just Fontaine set...
A promise in 1950 fulfilled in 1958; how Pele won the Cup for Brazil...
There could be no other more important event in the 1958 World Cup rather than Pele’s mercurial performance at the age of 17. As...
So close yet so far; Hungary’s ‘Mighty Magyars’ famously lost the 1954 Cup, and...
A legendary Hungarian Football team was formed in the 1950s comprising the greats like Ferenc Puskas, Sandor Kocsis, Nandor Hidegkuti, Zoltan Czibor, Gyula Grosics...
The ‘Maracanazo’ of 1950- when Uruguay brought ‘National Tragedy’ to Brazil
It was Maracanazo on 16th July 1950 at Maracana when Brazil was handed a sombre loss by Uruguay in the final of the World...
It was then as Dutch East Indies, Indonesia played the World Cup- the first...
The World Cup moved from Italy to its neighbour France in 1938. Four of the globe’s continents had participated in the tournament in 1934....
Child of ‘European Migration’, Luis Monti uniquely represented two nations in two World Cup...
The stream of Italian immigration to Argentina started in 1880s and became quite a phenomena till 1920s. During this period of Great European Immigration,...
Asian Games preparation: Indian athletes undergoing high-quality training in Poland and Bhutan
Athletics Federation of India have initiated two training programmes- one at Spala in Poland for Indian quarter milers and the other in Bhutan for...
Indian Hockey team win silver at the 5th Women’s Asian Champions Trophy
Defending champions Indian Women’s Hockey team won silver in Asian Champion Trophy as they failed to keep their title against hosts South Korea in...
Guillermo Stabile- having a strange debut but becoming the first hero of Football World...
When Guillermo Stabile struck the ball into the bottom left corner of the post to give Argentina 2-1 lead in the final of 1930...