INDIAN FOOTBALL Bengaluru FC, FC Goa, Punjab FC set for Japan tour The top three teams from the Reliance Foundation Development League (RFDL), India’s premier Under-21 youth football competition, will go on an international exposure tour to Japan. The U-21 teams from Bengaluru FC, FC Goa and Punjab FC have earned the opportunity to compete…
BOXING U-19 & U-23 Asian Boxing Championships: Futures Cup Stars Chandrika, Joyshree power India to flying start India opened its campaign at the U-19 Asian Boxing Championships in emphatic fashion as World Boxing Futures Cup gold medallist Chandrika Pujari and silver medallist Joyshree Devi registered dominant victories on the opening day in Jakarta, Indonesia. Competing…
There’s still a couple of years to go for the competition, but Taeke Taekema, the newly appointed penalty-corner coach of the Indian women’s hockey team, took a shot at a hypothetical scenario posed to him by Sportstar. Imagine it’s the final minute of an Olympic women’s hockey quarterfinal at the Los Angeles Olympics. The Indian…
India can beat any country in the world if the team sticks to its game plan, asserted the national men’s hockey side head coach Craig Fulton after a strong performance in the last leg of its otherwise overall poor campaign in the FIH Pro League. India registered confidence-boosting victories over the reigning world champion Germany…
CHESS Gukesh rises to joint second spot in Grand Chess Tour Croatia World champion D Gukesh made good use of his white pieces to beat Dutch Grandmaster Anish Giri in the final game of the day to rise to joint second spot after the second day of the Zagreb leg of the Grand Chess Tour….
Indian women’s hockey team coach Sjoerd Marijne on Thursday conceded that the 20-day gap between the World Cup and the Asian Games is tough, but expressed confidence in his team’s ability to tide over physical barriers. The FIH Women’s World Cup will be held between August 14 and 30 at Wavre, Belgium before the team…
Olympian P.R. Sreejesh expressed his ‘disappointment’ on India’s dismal eight-place finishes in the Men’s FIH Pro League standings over the last two seasons. “I’m not against Indian hockey. I’m disappointed because I care,” Sreejesh said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “My hockey knowledge may be limited, and this is just my opinion. (Armchair…
Since the first Padma award for sports in 1956, it’s been conferred on 222 people, some of them with multiple honours. Of all these, only six women’s hockey players have been found worthy of India’s highest civilian recognition. For someone who struggled without a job despite a decade-long career with the national team, Savita Punia,…
Disappointed by the national team’s dismal FIH Pro League campaign, the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has decided to overhaul the country’s hockey structure by appointing foreign coaches and support staff in a bid to revive the sport. Pakistan failed to win a single match in this season’s FIH Pro League, finishing bottom of the nine-team…
The Indian men’s hockey team ended its FIH Pro League 2025-26 campaign with a 3-2 shootout win over England after a hard-fought 0-0 draw at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre in London on Sunday. Abhishek, Shilanand Lakra and Hardik Singh converted their attempts in the shootout as India claimed the bonus point from…
