By Manohar Choudhary
Sports : FIFA World Cup 2010 : Spain won the World Cup for the first time when they beat Netherlands 1-0 thanks to a super strike by tireless midfielder Andres Iniesta four minutes from the end of extra time at Soccer City in Johannesburg on Sunday.
With penalties looming for the second successive final [...]
Sports : FIFA World Cup : Football fever — be it red or orange — has taken over Spain and Holland ahead of the World Cup final, with both countries desperate to lift the trophy for the first time ever.
Win or lose, Spain is preparing for an extraordinary fiesta.
Spain’s blood-red and gold colours are flying [...]
Sports : The Indian cricket team today left for Sri Lanka to play three Tests and a tri-nation ODI series, starting 18th of this month.
India are without its pace mainstay Zaheer Khan, who is nursing a shoulder injury.
In his absence S Sreesanth and Ishant Sharma will do the duty with the new ball. After completing [...]
Sports : Reigning European champions Spain reached their first World Cup final on Wednesday by defeating three—time winners Germany 1—0 thanks to Carles Puyol’s second half goal.
Puyol scored in the 73rd minute as Spain set up an all—European final with the Netherlands on Sunday at Soccer City in Johannesburg.
One of those nations will become the [...]
FIFA World Cup : The Netherlands have entered the World Cup Football final after a gap of 32 years. In the first semi-final in Cape Town last night, they beat Uruguay by three goals to two.
The Dutch are in their third World Cup final after making it in 1974 and 1978. On both occasions they [...]
Sports : Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has ruled out an immediate return for former captain and senior batsman Younus Khan to the national team.
After meeting federal minister for sports Ijaz Jakhrani on Tuesday, Butt said Younus’ lawyer made inappropriate statements against the board and the appeal’s commissioner who looked into the appeals of [...]
FIFA World Cup : The Netherlands have entered the World Cup Football final after a gap of 32 years.
AIR correspondent reports that in the first semi-final in Cape Town last night, they beat Uruguay by three goals to two.
The Dutch are in their third World Cup final after making it in 1974 and 1978. On [...]
Sports : The World Cup’s two most impressive strikers – David Villa and Miroslav Klose – will go head-to-head when European champion Spain meets three-time winner Germany in the semifinals on Wednesday.
Villa leads the scoring chart with five goals in five games for Spain, while Klose has hit the target four times for Germany and [...]
Sports : Punjab crushed Bihar 9-0 while Mumbai trounced Chhattisgarh 7-0 in the 63rd Rangaswami Cup Senior National Men’s Hockey Championship played at the Aishbagh Stadium here on Monday.
In another fixture, Goa defeated Himachal Pradesh 1-0.
Punjab Captain Jasjeet Singh (17th and 46th minutes) and Karanjeet Singh (42nd and 64th minutes) scored two goals each while [...]
Sports : One of Diego Maradona’s assistants wants him to stay, and a top Argentine football official said the job is his despite the team’s devastating 4-0 loss against Germany in the World Cup quarter-finals.
“Knowing Diego, it is difficult for me to think he wants to step down after failing in his objective to win [...]