Soccer Blog | Author | Shourin Roy

The king of Jogo Bonito is no more: Pele passes away

Edson Arantes do Nascimento famously known as Pele passed away after days of being put on palliative care to...

Shocking news: Grant Wahl passes away

A wonderful man and a doyen of soccer journalism passes away. Grant Wahl collapsed during the start of extra...

Meet Antonio Mateu Lahoz: Card happy referee dishing out a record 18 bookings

Antonio Mateu Lahoz, the Spanish referee overseeing the Netherlands vs Argentina match that often looked one tinder short of...

Argentina overcome a fighting Netherlands on penalties [4-3] in an epic to enter semi-finals

Former Arsenal goalkeeper was one of Argentina’s heroes in their victory against Netherlands. Lautaro Martinez held his nerve and...

Neymar should have put himself ahead in Brazil’s list of penalty takers

Neymar Jr cries after Croatia’s victory. Brazil’s talisman did not take part in the penalties as Marquinhos missed effort...

Seismic shock: Croatia sends Brazil packing on penalties [4-2] to enter semi-finals

Dominik Livakovic was the hero keeping Croatia in the match and saving Rodrygo’s effort on penalties Brazil and Croatia...

El Pais analysis: Moroccan defence successfully disrupted Pedri- Busquets axis

El Pais breaks down why Morocco was able neutralize the Spanish attack despite the suffocating drumbeat of passes. The...

Heartwarming: Achraf Hakimi celebrates with his mother

Achraf Hakimi’s cheeky panenka vaults Morocco to the quarterfinals. And then gets some motherly love. Lovely to see.

Stop press: Morocco shock Spain sending them out on penalties

Bono, “Acrobat” Morocco’s hero. Spain didn’t find what they were looking for. Yassine Bono or Bounou was Morocco’s hero...

More shock: South Korea pip Uruguay to advance

Hungry like a wolf: Wolves striker Hwang Hee Chan comes up with the winning goal against Portugal Hwang Hee-Chan’s...

Lukaku’s horror show as Belgium crash out of the World Cup

Romelu Lukaku vents his frustration Romelu Lukaku had a final group match to forget. The Belgians were desperate for...

Japan send shock waves beating Spain and topping their group

Ao Tanaka’s goal proved to be the winner The Blue Samurai have done it! They beat Germany, 2-1 in...

Casemiro’s brilliant goal sink obdurate Swiss

Casemiro finally found a hole in the Swiss defence as he lasered a half volley into the far corner...

USA proves to be England’s bogey team again

England has never beaten the USA. And on the strength of their showing today, this will likely be the...

Halftime: The USA have come out swinging and England look rattled

It’s not coming home. Not if England play like this. Christian Pulisic just rocked the crossbar and Haji Wright...

A tenner on Enner to score: Netherlands lucky to escape with draw

Enner The Dragon: Valencia now leads 2022 World Cup goalscorers After Cody Gakpo gave Netherlands an early lead with...

The Glazers put Man Utd up for sale

Jim Ratcliffe is amongst the front runners to buy out Man Utd Cristiano Ronaldo leaves. The Glazers put the...

Canada has the raw talent: An impressive display against the Belgians

Move over Wayne Gretsky, you have competition. Just getting ahead of myself. Never mind. I watched Canada with my...

Shame on FIFA: Iranian fans removed for protesting Mahsa Amini’s murder

Yet another example of FIFA’s lip service to human rights while their lips are firmly plastered on the derrieres...

Richarlison’s goal of the 2022 World Cup

Brazil beat Serbia last evening. With the effervescence of those magically gifted Seleccao sides of the 70s and 80s....

Hennessey sent off: Wales on the brink as Iran score two late goals

Wayne Hennessey gets sent off for a martial arts level challenge, the first red card in the 2022 World...

More thoughts on: Save Soccer, Quit FIFA

Class acts: MBS, Infantino, and Vlad Putin go out on a limb The great Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano said...

Cristiano Ronaldo’s soft penalty difference maker: Portugal scrape win against Ghana

Cristiano Penaldo ahem Ronaldo makes history This was a testy match. And it took a really soft penalty decision...

The Mannschaft stand up for human rights “armband or no armband”

The German starting XI stage stage their we will not be silenced protest before the Japan match Germany might...

Takuma Asano, ex-Arsenal and Arsene Wenger signing scores winning goal

Arsene Wenger, very much one with an eye for talent described Takuma Asano as “a talented young striker and...

Japan lift Asian hearts shocking Germany!

Brave. Tenacious. Canny. And when needed to be, absolutely devastating on the counter. They also won the physical part....

No football, no worries. Andrea Pirlo promotes Qatari tourism

Ever wonder what happened to Andrea Pirlo? “No football, no worries.” That’s the Qatari tourism branding Andrea Pirlo is...

Alex Scott makes a courageous One Love statement

Alex Scott, formerly of Arsenal Women’s (so proud, so proud of my club and her) and BBC presenter shows...

One Love or play football?

One one hand, we doff our hats to the Netherlands and the seven other national sides for signing on...

France missing key players show their potency against game Socceroos

No Karim Benzema. No N’Golo Kante. No Paul Pogba. No problem. The Socceroos took a shock early lead through...

Curtains for Cristiano: His Manchester United career is over

By Caravaggio – Self-scanned, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25450745 The inevitable happened. The disgruntled Cristiano Ronaldo will depart Man Utd by...

What a save! Memo Ochoa the hero for Mexico

The talisman for Mexico, Guillermo Ochoa, now in his 5th World Cup and saves Robert Lewandowski’s penalty. Ochoa actually...

Rainbows to be banned in Qatar following World Cup

Qatar is terrified of this naturally occurring phenomenon Grant Wahl, familiar to those reading his Sports Illustrated articles was...

Abdulrahman Al-Jassim: Welcome to the most officious official

Abdulrahman Al-Jassim brandishes a yellow, one of 6. The list includes (USA): Weston McKennie, Sergino Dest, Tim Ream, Kellyn...

USA fail to impress as second half stalls into disorganization and stagnation against Wales

Gareth Bale wheels around after his successful penalty against the USA earning them a draw One coherent, incisive move...

No surprise: FIFA shows lip service for LGBT rights as it goes after One Love armbands

Harry Kane will not be wearing the One Love armband. Neither will the players from the 7 other countries...

Iran’s national players show solidarity with protestors remaining silent during national anthem

Kudos to the national team as they show their support for the protests sweeping Iran against the brutal crackdown...

World Cup 2022 theme emerges: Repressive autocratic regimes 0 Democracies 2

Gianni Infantino enjoys a moment with a repressive autocrat Ecuador destroys Qatar, 2-0 in the opener and this time...

“Today I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel [like] a migrant worker.”

And thus spake Gianni Infantino in a jaw dropping diatribe which felt more like a confessional. This on the...