It is reliably learnt that DSK Shivajians have communicated their decision to the All India Football Federation (AIFF) earlier this month. The club made it into the top division league through a Request for Proposal (RFP) scheme which gave them immunity from relegation for three seasons. In the first year, they finished ninth and last year they could only make it to the seventh slot. Players too expressed their disappointment to the club management for the non-clearance of dues during the course of last season....

TV CHANNELS & LIVE STREAM The Star Sports Network have the exclusive broadcasting rights of the I-League. All the matches will be telecast Live on Star Sports 2 and 2 HD. TEAM NEWS Aizawl FC Possible XI: (4-4-2): Avilash Paul; Lalrinzuala Khiangte, Kareem Omoloja, Masih Saighani, Lalram Hmunmawia; Leonce Dodoz, David Lalrimmuana Alfred Jaryan, Lalmuan Kima; Yugo Kobayashi, William Lalnunfela. Injured - Andrei Ionescu Doubtful - Shylo Malsawmtluanga Key Players - Alfred Jaryan, Leonce Dodoz...

Amidst the relegation contest, the club has released two of its Brazilian attackers namely Anderson Raimundo da Silva and Alex Willian Silva. Striker Anderson announced the departure of the foreign duo as he left a goodbye message for the supporters of the Yellows and Blues. A post shared by #DaSilva8Oficial* (@dasilva08oficial) on Apr 21, 2017 at 10:39am PDT It was former gaffer Santosh Kashyap who had sealed the deal for the Brazilians in the month of February....

Speaking on the victory, coach Albert Roca expressed his happiness. Also, he stressed on the need for enhancement in the squad’s form. ‘‘I am satisfied with the result but we still need to keep working in our areas of improvement,’’ said the Spaniard. Applauding the goal-scorer of the evening, Roca stated that the Kerala Blasters’ man delivered a splendid performance. ‘’(CK) Vineeth deserved the hat-trick. He did a good job today....

“We controlled the whole game. We tried to score. We created five to six chances. We deserved the three points because I don’t remember any good save from our goalkeeper,” said Menezes. William Lalnunfela was surprisingly not included in the squad and Meneses revealed that he has suffered an ankle injury. “Today morning he tried to jog and then he told me that he felt some pain, so he was out of the first XI....

The player sustained a hip injury and after undergoing three examinations - the last which took place in London on Thursday as the rest of the Super Eagles were preparing for a friendly against England - was ruled out of the quadrennial tournament on Friday. Simon is expected to spend at least three weeks on the sidelines, and the decision to leave him out means coach Gernot Rohr now has two more players to drop from his remaining team of 25....

But as a progressive Democrat and elected official, I believe both sides have it wrong. If we want to save lives, we need to focus on what actually helps people. And neither side is doing that. The Right is engaging in dangerous rhetoric, actively promoting misinformation and downplaying COVID-19 risks and the need to get vaccinated. But the Left’s harmful lockdown policies and public health messaging focused on shaming the unvaccinated is turning people against each other and stigmatizing disease....

The Ligue 1 club met Neymar’s release clause at Barcelona last week, smashing the global transfer record previously held by Manchester United from when they splashed out €105m for Paul Pogba in 2016. dabblebet offers evens on Neymar to win the Ballon d’Or by 2020 Scudamore insists seeing his league lose that milestone is of no concern to him, with the restraint shown by the biggest sides something he views as a positive....

Salah who was signed from Roma prior to the 2017-18 season struck a good relationship with the Brazil international, whom at the back of a disappointing summer where he was denied a move to the Catalan giants continued churning out stellar performances - in tandem with the former Chelsea star, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino. But a club-record £142 million deal was agreed for the ex-Inter Milan player to transfer to the Spanish giants in the winter transfer window....

Why he went on the show: To prove how tough I was to myself, if I could actually hang out there on an island for 39 days. I’ve never been camping, never been fishing, never been hiking. I didn’t know how to swim at the time I was chosen. I’m from the city. I’m not the outdoors type. It was just an intriguing challenge for me. Scariest moment: I almost got bit by a poisonous snake one night....

The defender puts plenty of hours into developing his music skills already, though he says he will not consider any bookings while he is still a footballer. However, Clichy has expressed an interest in exploring life as a DJ further when he does eventually hang up his boots. Footage courtesy of Kicca.

The Irish steamrolled Wake Forest 56-27 on Saturday in their first true road test of the season. But by far the biggest surprise from the game came before kickoff, when reports surfaced that coach Brian Kelly would opt to start Ian Book at quarterback over incumbent Brandon Wimbush. “I didn’t sleep great last night,” Kelly said of his decision after the game, “because that’s a pretty big decision to make when you’re 3-0 and your quarterback that was leading your football team was 13-3 as a starter....

The Herald Sun of Melbourne calls Thorpe's plight "the saddest and most heartbreaking story in Australian sport." Thorpe also is being treated for a back injury. His emotional problems were exacerbated by his failed comeback attempt at the 2012 Olympics. Thorpe's struggles became public last year in an autobiography. In it he wrote: "Not even my family is aware that I've spent a lot of my life battling what I can only describe as crippling depression," he wrote....

United drew their ninth match in 16 Premier League home games this season, but they needed a 94th-minute penalty from Ibrahimovic to salvage the point. Phil Jagielka had given Everton the lead in the first-half when he got on the end of a flick from Ashley Williams, who conceded the penalty for handball and was consequently dismissed. Mourinho’s record worse than Van Gaal’s But with the gap to the top four and Champions League qualification potentially extending to seven points if results go against them on Wednesday, Ibrahimovic called for rapid improvement....

The Manchester United strike posted a video on Instagram showing him making the shapes in the snow with the comment “Dare to Zlatan”. Dressed only his underpants, Ibrahimovic did what many people do when it snows, while also performing a few sit-ups for good measure. He then raced off camera to presumably warm up in the freezing conditions. Ibrahimovic has been in fine form for United this season after making the free transfer from Paris Saint-Germain, the 35-year-old scoring 16 goals in 25 appearances in all competitions....

The 35-year-old has impressed for United since signing from Paris Saint-Germain on a free transfer, playing in 17 of United’s 18 Premier League matches and scoring 12 goals. Mourinho has been consistent in his praise for Ibrahimovic since his move and had kind words for the striker again ahead of his side’s home match against Middlesbrough on Saturday. Aguero is no longer City’s guardian angel The manager also suggested Ibrahimovic has to work harder for his goals in England than the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have to do in LaLiga....

Why Martial’s next two goals will cost €10m Ulf Karlsson, who was head coach of Sweden’s athletics team between 2001 and 2004, claimed last year that Ibrahimovic must have used performance-enhancing substances in order to build muscle mass. “Zlatan gained 10 kilos of muscle in six months at Juventus. That is impossible in such a short time,” he said in a panel discussion, before adding to newspaper Nya Wermlands-Tidning: “I think he was doped....

On Thursday, ICE spokesperson Mary Houtmann told Newsweek that the agency has repatriated 695 U.S. citizens since March 22, when ICE first started bringing stranded Americans back to the U.S. on deportation flights in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Houtmann said the agency has also overseen the return of 34 lawful permanent residents to the U.S. using flights intended to deport migrants back to Central American countries. In total, 729 people have been returned on ICE flights....

The National Weather Service office in New York declared its first-ever set of flash flood emergencies in the region Wednesday night, an alert reserved for “exceedingly rare situations when a severe threat to human life and catastrophic damage from a flash flood is happening or will happen soon.” There are several casualties reported as rescue and recovery operations continue in flooded towns throughout the Northeast. The death toll expected to increase throughout Thursday and into the weekend as the scale of the destruction becomes clear....