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Jaydeep Basu
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Indian Football: The North East is the top breeding ground for talent but will it stay that way?
Mizoram and Manipur alone constitute more than 25 percent of the total Indian players in ISL.
Jaydeep Basu
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Indian football: Fred Pugsley, Chima Okorie, Ranti Martins – the foreign strikers who shone in India
The responsibility of scoring goals in Indian domestic football had virtually been taken over by foreign strikers long before the ISL kicked off.
Jaydeep Basu
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Rare successes, cosmetic changes: Indian Football in the last decade has remained largely mediocre
Even at the end of 2020, Indian football is largely dependent on Sunil Chhetri at the international level.
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Trending
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With new OCI notification, India has ended its experiment with dual citizenship
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Real-life ‘Terminal’: How people manage to live at airports for months and years
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All your questions about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine answered
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Watch: Ever wondered just how good Viv Richards was? This collection of videos will tell you
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In Kashmir, a woman is on a mission to rescue wildlife – and break stereotypes
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ISL’s Kolkata Derby: Here’s a look back at the first Mohun Bagan-East Bengal games in events past
The two Kolkata major renew their rivalry for the first time in Indian Super League, with the club names changed to ATK Mohun Bagan and SC East Bengal.
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From Manjit Singh to Carlton Chapman: Untimely deaths of former players that shook Indian football
Indian football has been cursed to find some of its best names leaving this world at an age when they were ready to pass on their rich experience to youngsters.
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In unbearable pain but with football on his mind: The last nine months of Syed Abdul Rahim’s life
The architect, mentor and philosopher of modern Indian football breathed his last at his house in Darulshifa in Hyderabad in June 1963.
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Video
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Watch: Ex-Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat pulls autorickshaw with rope to protest against fuel prices
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Watch: Hit government officials with sticks if they don’t listen, says Union Minister Giriraj Singh
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Caught on Nandan Nilekani’s camera: Black panther and leopard on the verge of an encounter
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Watch: Mumbai woman celebrates 100th birthday after being vaccinated against Covid-19
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Watch: Big dog interrupts woman every time she wants to practise yoga
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Indian football's forgotten triumph, right after an embarrassing defeat on Independence Day 1971
A remarkable comeback by Indian football team that has been forgotten over the years.
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A victory for India? Why Mohun Bagan’s historic 1911 IFA Shield win was purely about football
The victory for the Mariners was seen as a triumph against the British Raj but that narrative was nothing more than a coincidence.
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Why Sunil Chhetri is the finest match-winner in Indian football history
The number of crucial goals Chhetri has scored for India helps him stand ahead of all of them in sheer consistency.
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The Reel
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‘Thunder Force’ trailer: Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer play unlikely superheroes
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Jean-Luc Godard: ‘Today’s cinema only thinks action and not silence’
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Sahir Ludhianvi at 100: Why the poet and film lyricist was the original ‘Angry Young Man’
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Five animated films that ‘Bombay Rose’ director Gitanjali Rao wants you to watch
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‘7 Kadam’ trailer: Ronit Roy and Amit Sadh play father and son in football-themed show
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Indian football: The differing paths PK Banerjee and Chuni Goswami took to becoming legends
Jointly, they were an inseparable pair in the national team for 10 years but those who followed them closely knew they didn’t have too many things in common.
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Dhyan Chand to Ashok Kumar: For Indian hockey’s first family, the game left a bittersweet aftertaste
Several members of the Dhyan Chand family have played hockey with distinction and have donned the national colours sometime or the other.
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PK Banerjee: Captain, coach, Indian football legend, but above all, a caring human being
The death of the legendary footballer is the end of an era in so many ways.
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The Field
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Premier League: Liverpool slip to sixth straight defeat at Anfield as Fulham boost survival hopes
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Swiss Open Super 300 badminton: PV Sindhu outplayed by relentless Carolina Marin in final
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Football: Steven Gerrard guides Rangers to first Scottish League title in ten years
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Watch: Ravi Shastri on ICC’s WTC qualification criteria, trolls and importance of man-management
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PV Sindhu vs Carolina Marin, Swiss Open Super 300 final as it happened: Marin races to the title