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[ad_1] India men's and women's football team for Special Olympics South Asia Unified© X (Twitter)A 28-strong Indian contingent, comprising both men and women, left for Dhaka on Monday to participate in the Special Olympics South Asia Unified seven-a-side football tournament. The contingent includes 22 players, and five coaches representing eight different states and was given a sendoff in Faridabad on Monday. "We are assured of bagging one medal from the female team of SOB for sure, the men's team however has to improve their skills a bit more, the important thing is to defend the goal, but we are hoping for the best," Harpreet Singh, the sports director of Special Olympics Bharat, said at the ceremony.Special Olympics Bharat is a National Sports Federation for people with intellectual d...

[ad_1] The Indian football men's team dropped four places to 121 in the latest FIFA rankings, its worst in recent years, following an embarrassing 1-2 defeat against Afghanistan in the second round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in Guwahati last month. The Igor Stimac-coached side, which had broken into the top-100 last year, having won the Intercontinental Cup, the Tri-Nations tournament and the SAFF Championship, on March 26 suffered a shocking defeat at home to lowly-ranked Afghanistan to continue its poor run of late.Even though the team registered a win against Kuwait in the World Cup qualifiers, its first away win in over two decades, the forgettable outing at the AFC Asian Cup 2023 in Qatar, where the side lost all its matches without scoring a single goal, saw it plummet 1...

[ad_1] The under-fire Igor Stimac will remain in charge of India's FIFA World Cup second round qualifying matches against Kuwait and Qatar as the All India Football Federation (AIFF) has asked the head coach of the senior men's team to focus on the upcoming two games. This comes a week after the technical committee headed by Indian football great I M Vijayan recommended the sacking of the Croatian World Cupper after the shocking defeat to Afghanistan in the home leg match in Guwahati on March 26.A committee, constituted by AIFF president Kalyan Chaubey and headed by vice-president N A Haris, following the loss to Afghanistan, held discussions with Stimac during a virtual meeting on Tuesday.Vijayan, who is a member of the AIFF executive committee and the chairman of the technical committe...

[ad_1] AIFF closes investigation into alleged physical assault by EC member© X (formerly Twitter)The All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Wednesday said it has closed the investigation into a "verbal" complaint of "harassment" made by a woman employee against a male colleague as the "alleged victim and the other party do not wish to pursue the matter any further". Last week, a woman employee at the AIFF headquarters here had lodged a "verbal" complaint of "harassment" against a male colleague, but she did not press a formal charge. In a statement, the AIFF said its Internal Complaints Committee (ICC), which investigated the alleged harassment case recently, was "not in a position to continue the investigation as the alleged victim and the other party do not wish to pursue the matter a...

[ad_1] The All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Tuesday suspended its executive committee member Deepak Sharma until further notice for his alleged physical assault of two women players in Goa, two days after it stopped short of doing the same. Two footballers of Himachal Pradesh-based Khad FC, taking part in the Indian Women's Football (IWL) League second division, had alleged that Sharma, the owner of the club, had barged into their room and physically assaulted them on the night of March 28. On Saturday, the AIFF asked Sharma to refrain from football-related activities till the conclusion of a probe by a panel into his alleged incident. Sharma was arrested by Goa police after the host state association lodged a complaint and later released on bail."The AIFF Executive Committee has ...

[ad_1] The All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Saturday asked its executive committee member Deepak Sharma to refrain from game-related activities till the conclusion of a probe by a panel into his alleged physical assault of two women footballers in Goa. Two footballers of Himachal Pradesh-based Khad FC, taking part in the Indian Women's Football (IWL) League second division, had alleged that Sharma, the owner of the club, had barged into their room and physically assaulted them on the night of March 28. They filed a complaint with the competition committee of the AIFF and the Goa Football Association (GFA), which was hosting the tournament, also lodged a complaint at the Mapusa police station on the basis of the complaint of the two women footballers.In the complaint, according to ...

[ad_1] Two women footballers of Khad FC, a Himachal Pradesh-based club, have brought some serious allegations against Deepak Sharma, an executive committee member of the All India Football Federation - the governing body of the sport in the country. According to the footballers, Sharma assaulted them in a hotel room during the ongoing Indian Women's League 2 in Goa.  The footballers lodged a complaint with the AIFF on Friday while the assault is said to have taken place on Thursday.According to the footballers, Sharma was offended because they were preparing food and physically assaulted them. Sharma is general secretary of the Himachal Pradesh Football Association and deputy chairman of the AIFF's competitions committee.The footballers also said that Sharma was drunk when the incident t...

[ad_1] The top brass of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) is inclined to heed to the recommendation of its technical committee to remove national men's team head coach Igor Stimac but contractual issues may make it difficult to do so, PTI has learnt. Also given the fact that India's next World Cup qualifiers round 2 match is slated for June 6 against Kuwait in Kolkata, changing the man at the helm at this point in time may not be a good idea, according to AIFF sources."Under the circumstances, he (Stimac) is likely to be in charge of the team in the next two matches in June," a source told PTI on conditions of anonymity.India will have to get a favourable result against Kuwait if they want to make it to the World Cup qualifiers round 3 for the first time.After that, the Blue Tiger...