Need club’s help to realise ‘Goal 2011′ project: HoughtonNEW DELHI - India’s chief football coach Bob Houghton Friday said the I-League clubs should come forward and help the All India Football Federation (AIFF) achieve its grand plan of giving central contracts to 25 players, who will play exclusively for the national team till the 2011 Asia Cup in Doha. Schalke defeat Cologne 1-0 in BundesligaHAMBURG - Schalke 04 edged Cologne 1-0 in a Bundesliga football match that gave the hosts a breather after a midweek embarrassment in the German cup. Austria ends contract with football coach BruecknerVIENNA - The tenure of Austria coach Karel Brueckner was cut short Monday, when the Austrian football association (OeFB) announced it had severed its contract with the seasoned Czech trainer after a string of losses. Mob burns two men to death in football fieldGUATEMALA CITY - Two suspected criminals were burnt to death in a football field by a mob in Guatemala’s Huehuetenango province, the police said. Recession-weary Australians find thrift funSYDNEY - Paul Camilleri of Sydney’s plush Restaurant Sojourn is offering a three-course lunch for 30 Australian dollars ($19). Melbourne Olympic football heroes felicitatedNEW DELHI - They belonged to the golden era of Indian football. Barely nine years after Independence, they had stormed into the semi-finals of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics — the best showing by an Indian football team. Call it a commemoration of the great performance fifty years ago or guilt, the sports ministry in an appreciable gesture felicitated the surviving members of that team here Monday. Deco backs Scolari, confident Chelsea will be league championsLONDON - Chelsea’s Portuguese football star Deco Wednesday played down rumblings in the English Premier League club and said he saw only good times ahead in the new year at Stamford Bridge. Dasmunsi re-elected AIFF president, Colaco to continueNEW DELHI - An ailing Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi was Tuesday unanimously re- elected as the president of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) while paid secretary-general Alberto Colaco will stay in office for some more time, though his contract ends Dec 31. |
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