Football

KARACHI: Captain of the national women’s football team Hajra Khan has expressed anger over the lack of professionalism displayed during the ongoing National Games in Peshawar. In a series of Tweets, Khan, who is leading the Army’s women team, highlighted Pakistan Football Federation’s failure to inform her team regarding a change in a match schedule after which she was left ...

JOHANNESBURG: Wonder boy Mostafa Mohamed headed the goal that gave hosts Egypt a 1-0 win over Mali as an eight-nation African contest for three places at the Tokyo Olympics Games kicked off Friday. Later, Ghana snatched a late 1-1 draw with Cameroon in the second match of a Group A double-header at the 75,000-capacity Cairo International Stadium. Franck Evina, who ...

Brazil’s World Cup winning footballer Ricardo Kaka, who is currently in Pakistan for an exhibition tour, has admitted that one-off tours by global stars like himself would create a temporary buzz but won’t create a sustainable football culture where the Beautiful Game could grow. Kaka, who along with Luis Figo, Nicolas Anelka and Carles Puyol, landed in Karachi on Saturday, ...

Teenager Mason Greenwood scored as Manchester United cruised into the Europa League last 32 with a 3-0 win over Partizan Belgrade at Old Trafford on Thursday, while Celtic stunned Lazio with a last-gasp goal in Rome to progress. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s United knew that a third victory in four Group L games would be enough to send them through. The ...

Alvaro Morata returned to the Spain squad on Friday after scoring six goals in six games for Atletico Madrid. Spain have already qualified for Euro 2020 ahead of their final two group matches at home to Malta on November 15 and Romania on November 18. Coach Robert Moreno has rewarded Alvaro Morata for his rich vein of form after the ...

Karachi: Bay View Academy Clifton, in collaboration with Leisure Leagues, is organizing fourth edition of Inter-School U-12 Girls Futsal Tournament from today (Tuesday) at Bay View Academy Clifton Ground. Eight teams will be seen in action during the tournament. The eight teams have been divided into two groups. Group ‘A’ consists of Bay View Academy, Delsol, Bay View (PECHS) and ...

Jurgen Klopp moved to allay fears over Mohamed Salah’s left ankle problem saying his departure five minutes before the end of Premier League leaders Liverpool’s 2-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur was a precautionary measure. The 27-year-old Egyptian star — who had missed the previous match with Manchester United due to the injury — scored the decisive goal to bring up ...

Christian Pulisic hit the first hat-trick of his career as Chelsea crushed Burnley 4-2 on Saturday while Manchester City overcame a sluggish start to beat Aston Villa and increase the pressure on Liverpool. Away from the top end of the Premier League table, pressure is mounting on Everton boss Marco Silva after the Merseysiders’ fifth defeat in their past six ...

After the headscarf (hijab) of a female soccer player from Jordan fell of during a match, other players participating in the game gathered around her to form a protective shield in order to protect her dignity. According to a video shared on social networking platform Twitter by the Jordanian Football Association, the headscarf of the player, whose identity is as ...

Former Manchester United captain Patrice Evra said recently that Islam was a beautiful religion. A recent interview of the French footballer is doing the rounds on the internet in which he has nice things to say about Islam. Evra says in the video that he was raised as a Catholic but when people started blaming Islam for terrorism, he spoke ...