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Seeking to put the heartbreak in the World Cup Qualifiers behind, the Indian men's football team will look to start from scratch under new head coach Manolo Márquez when it faces Mauritius in the Intercontinental Cup opener here on Tuesday. The Indian senior men's team is coming to the Telangana capital for the first time in 16 years as the city plays host to Mauritius and Syria from September 3 to 9.
Influential centre-back Sandesh Jhingan's name was missing as Chennaiyin FC forward Kiyan Nassiri, son of East Bengal's Iranian legend Jamshid, on Wednesday inched closer to his maiden India selection after being named among new head coach Manolo Marquez's 26 probables for the Intercontinental Cup preparatory camp. Mohun Bagan SG right-back Ashish Rai and East Bengal goalkeeper Prabhsukhan Singh Gill, who are yet to play for the senior India team, also received call-ups for the camp in preparation for the three-team annual tournament that will be held from September 3-9 in Hyderabad.
Soft-spoken Spaniard Manolo Marquez (55), whose consummate ability to use his limited resources to extract the best became the talking point of Indian football, has recently been made the head coach of the senior national men's football team. However, he will continue his coaching assignment with ISL club FC Goa alongside the national team. In an interview published in the website of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) website on AIFF's efforts to produce quality coaches all over the country, Marquez said ‘coach education' is important all over the world.
PARIS: Yeo Jia Min may not be one to focus on records, but she notched a noteworthy milestone on Tuesday (Jul 30) by beoming the first Singaporean badminton player to reach the knockout stages at the Olympic Games in more than a decade.
PARIS: Singapore badminton mixed doubles pair of Terry Hee and Jessica Tan beat the United States' Vinson Chiu and Jennie Gai on Monday (Jul 29) to finish their Olympics campaign.
PARIS: Up against a new opponent and an unfamiliar drift, it took a bit of time for world number 13 Loh Kean Yew to get going in his opening fixture at the Paris Olympics.
PARIS: It was a tale of two matches for Singapore’s badminton players on Saturday (Jul 27) as world number 20 Yeo Jia Min cruised to victory, while the mixed doubles duo of Terry Hee and Jessica Tan fell to a defeat.
A midwife who won £1m in the lottery 10 years ago is still delivering babies. Ruth Breen, 45, told how she was on her lunch break at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan in 2014 when she checked her emails and discovered she had won the life-changing sum on the EuroMillions.