Grameenphone Super Cup MSC look to catch Jamal off-guard Mohammedan Sporting Club will be aiming to earn at least some silverware this season through reaching the final of the Grameenphone Super Cup as the defending champions face off Bangladesh League champions Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club in the first semifinal of the season’s ending tournament at ... Read more
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Sneijder’s options open
Wesley Sneijder on Sunday kept the door open to a possible £35 million switch to Manchester United. The Inter Milan midfielder has been strongly linked with a move to the Premier League champions, and speculation continued this weekend despite recent comments from United boss Sir Alex Ferguson that the club would make no further signings ... Read more
Singapore-Malaysia Football Rivalry Turns Ugly Online
Singapore’s World Cup qualifying tie against Malaysia concluded four days ago, but an online war is still being waged by football fans from both sides. The latest salvo was fired yesterday by hackers, who replaced the homepage of the Singapore Cars Online Web site with an image of Malaysian striker Safee Sali. They also left ... Read more
Bangladesh best in South Asia
Bangladesh delivered the best performance among all the South Asian countries who all bowed out in the second round of World Cup pre-qualifiers. The SAFF semi-finalists are the only nation in the region to post a win in the second round, though it came a little too late as they lost 4-2 on aggregate to
Too good, but too late
Bangladesh Win World Cup Pre-Qualifier 2nd-Leg 2-0 Too good, but too late So the World Cup dream of Bangladesh is over. But not before the boys of Nikola Ilievski put up a show that was spectacularly daring. The only thing missing was perhaps the belief that they could overturn Lebanon’s impressive 4-0 home leg advantage. ... Read more
Manchester City grab striker Aguero for ‘record’ 35 m pounds
Aguero is expected to hold talks with Manchester City over a five-year contract to be worth around 150,000 pounds a week. City beat off bids by Real Madrid and Juventus to lure Aguero away from Atletico and thus making him the most expensive signing in the club’s history, eclipsing the 32.5 million pounds paid for ... Read more
Argentina coach loses job over Copa failure
Argentina’s failure to win the Copa América as hosts and end an 18-year wait for a major title cost coach Sergio Batista his job. The Argentine Football Association (AFA), facing an identity crisis in the national game, announced Batista had stepped down after his team were knocked out of the tournament in the quarter-finals
Chelsea snap up starlet
The new manager of English football club Chelsea on Saturday announced a deal with Barcelona to sign teenager Oriol Romeu, as the London team prepared for a game in Thailand on their Asia tour. Blues boss Andre Villas-Boas confirmed agreement had been reached with the Spanish giants but said the 19-year-old defensive midfielder had yet ... Read more
L’pool title contenders
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney believes a rejuvenated Liverpool can emerge as genuine contenders in this season’s Premier League race, reports said Friday. The England striker, who fired a hattrick for United this week during their tour of the United States, said that Liverpool’s summer transfer activity would leave them better equipped to challenge for
Barcelona return to training
Spanish and European champions Barcelona began their pre-season training on Monday with just their Argentinian and Brazilian players who took part in the Copa America missing. Andres Iniesta, Xavi, Carles Puyol and Gerard Pique were among the 18 Barca players who took part in a light training session after completing physical
Paraguay beat Brazil on penalties in Copa
Paraguay will play Venezuela in the Copa America semi-finals after a rousing penalty shootout victory over Brazil in Buenos Aires on Sunday. Both regular time and extra time finished 0-0 after eight-time Copa winners Brazil squandered a succession of gilt-edged chances, and they were made to pay in the shootout, missing their first four
L’pool seal D’s deal
England winger Stewart Downing completed his £20 million ($32 million) transfer from Aston Villa to Liverpool on Friday after passing a medical, the Anfield giants announced. The 26-year-old, who has played 27 times for England, becomes Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish’s fourth major signing of the summer following Jordan Henderson, Charlie Adam and
L’pool triumph in a sea of red
Liverpool’s preparations for the up-coming English Premier League continued as they recorded an in-the-end comfortable 6-3 victory over a Malaysia XI in a friendly match in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The Reds went ahead in the 26th minute thanks to a controversial penalty. Referee Nagor Amir Bin Noor Mohamed ruled that the Reds’ new record signing ... Read more
‘Don’t compare Argentina with Barcelona,’ Messi says
It is a mistake to compare Argentina with Barcelona as the Spanish club have been working as a unit for a lot longer, Lionel Messi said on Thursday. Argentina have been pilloried by the media after drawing their opening two Copa América games before crushing Costa Rica 3-0 in their final group match, thanks largely ... Read more
Brazil beat Ecuador 4-2 to reach Copa quarters
After two cagey rounds of games at the Copa America, save for Argentina’s swatting of Costa Rica, the championship burst into life Wednesday as Brazil hit four goals against Ecuador to reach the quarter-finals. While the samba stars were finally getting their act together with a 4-2 win thanks to doubles from Neymar and Pato ... Read more
Ilievski rings the changes
In his first game in charge against Pakistan, Bangladesh national team coach Nikola Ilievski had no choice but to stick with the squad that was entrusted to him. But ahead of their second World Cup qualifier against Lebanon, the 56-year old Macedonian brought in a number of changes based on his viewings of the ongoing ... Read more
Danish footballer in line to represent Bangladesh
A Danish footballer of Bangladesh origin named Jamal Bhuyan is likely to represent the national side after he was picked by the Bangladesh Football Federation in the 27-member preliminary squad for the World Cup pre-qualifiers on Friday. Jamal, son of a Bangladeshi living in Denmark, was born and brought up in Copenhagen and
A cry for football
The thought of having to share the Bangabandhu National Stadium with cricket came as a big surprise to many sports organisers especially those involved with football but they wanted to believe that the premier of the government has been provided with a one-sided information on purpose. “We have come to know it through newspapers and ... Read more