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How the Giants have fallen: Inside Man United’s worst season; what went wrong and is there a silver lining?

The season began with excitement as fans celebrated the return of the prodigal son, Cristiano Ronaldo, back into the team after 12 years. Who knew that nine months down the line, this football season would turn out to be the worst in decades for Manchester United. Going through a tumultuous season, the infighting of team members, lack of a team spirit, continuously changing management, and even a lack of responsibility from the owners can all be attributed as reasons for the awful performance this season. This time, it is not just the players and coaches facing backlash for the performance. After being dubbed as the worst owners in the premiere league this season, the owners of the Manchester United Football Club the Glazer family are also being held massively responsible for the poor performance of the team. Manchester United’s shocking performance: Being one of the top-performing teams of all time, Manchester United shocked everyone this season with its unbelievably inferior performance. Finishing 6th with 58 points on the table, 35 points short of the season champions and local rivals Manchester City, the football season, which opened strongly, got haywire pretty quickly. There were so many…

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India jump two spots to 104 in FIFA rankings

The Indian football team reaped a good harvest from its impressive Asian Cup qualification campaign as it gained two places to jump to 104th in the latest FIFA world rankings released on Thursday. The Blue Tigers are placed just below New Zealand (103), who missed out on a 2022 FIFA World Cup spot after losing 0-1 to Costa Rica in the intercontinental play-off earlier this month. Read More

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India coach Stimac hits out at AIFF after historic Asian Cup qualification

Indian football team head coach Igor Stimac has lashed out at the messy state of affairs grappling the national federation (AIFF), a day after his side qualified for the AFC Asian Cup for the second consecutive time. The AIFF is currently run by the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) after the Praful Patel-led federation was found to have violated the National Sports Code. Read More

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Kenyan Football Team Emerges from Slum to Rise to Top

NAIROBI – In the year 2000, a football team was founded in a slum of Nairobi plagued by crime. The football team would later be named Kariobangi Sharks, Kariobangi being the name of the informal settlement the team members hailed from. The team became a source of hope, an escape for talented youth with an interest in football, some who might otherwise be involved in criminal activities. In the last two decades, the team has risen to the top of Kenya’s football league, nurturing talent and giving hope to a new generation of players. When Eric Juma was 11 years old, he spotted a group of young boys training at a football pitch near his house in one of Nairobi’s many poor informal settlements: Kariobangi. This particular team stood out for Juma because it seemed organized. He would join the team soon after. Juma was then 11 years old. Now he’s 25 and captain of the team. “Football has really helped me as an individual,” Juma said. “First it kept me busy. We never had enough money for my further education, so I had to join football. Football has made me who I am today…

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College football coach suspended after saying Hitler was undeniably ‘a great leader’

Grand Valley State University suspended a newly hired member of its football coaching staff after he made laudatory remarks about Adolf Hitler during an interview with the Michigan school’s student newspaper, saying, “The way he was able to lead was second-to-none.” During the Q&A-style interview, published Thursday by the Grand Valley Lanthorn, sports editor Kellen Voss asked Morris Berger a variety of questions intended to help fans learn more about the football team’s newest offensive coordinator. Toward the end of the interview — as a nod to Berger’s degree in history from Drury University — Voss asked him to name any three people in history he’d like to have dinner with, excluding football figures. “This is probably not going to get a good review, but I’m going to say Adolf Hitler,” Berger replied. “It was obviously very sad and he had bad motives, but the way he was able to lead was second-to-none. How he rallied a group and a following, I want to know how he did that. Bad intentions of course, but you can’t deny he wasn’t a great leader.” Berger, who was named the team’s offensive coordinator on Jan. 20, rounded out…

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Opinion: Baylor football back on top four years after sexual assault scandal rocked campus

Exactly four years ago, the nation’s premier college football matchup took place under a cloud of uncertainty and defiance when Baylor’s unbeaten team hosted Oklahoma. For a lot of people around the country, the game was secondary. In August of that year, details began to emerge about the widespread sexual assault scandal that would later consume the university. At the same time, questions about whether coach Art Briles and his staff enabled a culture of violent behavior in the football program started to gain momentum, creating an uncomfortable dynamic with many fans who refused to believe he had done anything wrong. Not many outside the Baylor community shed a tear when the Bears lost that night, 44-34, ultimately fading into irrelevance by the end of the season. And from a football standpoint, that’s pretty much where the Bears have remained — until now. For people who are immersed in college football, Baylor’s return to the national spotlight Saturday — once again unbeaten, playing at home vs. Oklahoma — seems like a feel-good story. Some of that is related to Matt Rhule, the coach who cleaned up the toxic culture left by Briles and spent much…

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Women’s football: Which top European clubs still don’t have a team

After Manchester United launched a women’s side in 2018-19, every major English club has one and teams in Europe are following suit. Real Madrid and Eintracht Frankfurt have announced intentions to take over local women’s teams CD Tacon and FFC Frankfurt respectively – but who is yet to catch up? Scotland Livingston is the only Scottish Premiership side to not have a women’s team, though there are no professional sides established yet. Celtic had planned to form a professional women’s team by the end of 2019 and the Hoops also submitted plans for a women’s training center. In June, Scotland FA chief executive Ian Maxwell said: “A number of clubs are looking at pretty much full-time women’s teams. The more opportunities there will be for girls, the more clubs will follow suit.” Germany Borussia Dortmund is arguably the biggest side in Europe without a women’s team. When approached by BBC Sport, the club replied: “Borussia Dortmund focuses on the women’s handball team, which has a long and successful history.” From 2009, Hertha BSC had cooperation with FC Lubars, but because of financial issues, they lost their licences for the second tier of the women’s Bundesliga…

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Maryland’s new indoor football facility, set to be finished next year, brings the program up to speed

Michael Locksley wanted to be the coach at Maryland. It’s the school just 10 miles from his childhood home, and the one where he had worked two previous stints as an assistant. But as Athletic Director Damon Evans worked to reel in Locksley from Alabama late last year, the massive construction zone adjacent to the football stadium didn’t hurt. The Terrapins didn’t have an indoor practice facility until 2017, making Maryland the last Big Ten football program to build one. And now the school aims to keep up with the sport’s elite with the nearing completion of the $196 million Cole Field House project that adds more high-end spaces for football, two outdoor fields, resources for other Maryland athletes and a large academic wing. “You want your resources to match expectations,” Evans said. “When you’re competing with all these teams, not only in the Big Ten but around the country, and you see what they have, recruits, student-athletes, prospects, they like the bright, shiny toys. So it was very, very helpful.” The school expects the football performance center to open in the fall or winter of 2020, with the completion of the academic area coming…

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The Football Team In Euphoria Is Complete Trash

It has been two weeks since the finale of HBO’s R-rated Riverdale knock-off, Euphoria, aired to glowing reviews. Everyone wants to talk about how the show found its earnest heart, and whether Jules will come back, and how all the teens may be doomed by sexting and drugs, but no one wants to talk about how East Highland’s football team is a big bag of trash. In the finale, we learn that heading into the last game of the regular season the football team needs “a W” to head to regionals. These are regular football stakes. In fact, the entire sequence of football clips in Euphoria’s Season 1 finale is just goth Friday Night Lights. But we are led to believe that the team’s luck may be changing because their quarterback has returned. “Nate Jacobs is going to unify this ball club,” the TV announcers (?) of this high-school football game proclaim right after declaring that the team has been “struggling.” Here are some things that make Nate Jacobs a good quarterback: he is tall (6-foot-4), he is very in shape, and he has a chip on his shoulder so large it is amazing he…

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