Power of football inspires team effort towards development goals

Power of football inspires team effort towards development goals

As the football Club World Cup gets underway in the United States, on the other side of the globe, Japanese club Gamba Osaka has reaffirmed its commitment to sustainable development by becoming the first team in the country’s professional league to join the United Nations’ Football for the Goals initiative. The initiative provides a platform […]

Field of Dreams: Football Breathes Life into Yemen’s Camps

Field of Dreams: Football Breathes Life into Yemen’s Camps

The tournament is more than a sporting event. It’s a lifeline. In Ma’rib Governorate, where over 2.3 million internally displaced people have settled, families live in makeshift shelters, often after being forced to flee multiple times. Water is scarce, the heat is unforgiving, and access to education and health care is limited at best. In […]

36th National Games update: Aakarshi, Sai Praneeth take home badminton crowns

36th National Games update: Aakarshi, Sai Praneeth take home badminton crowns

Second-seeded Aakarshi Kashyap (Chhattisgarh) dominated top-seeded Malvika Bansod (Maharashtra) to win the Badminton Women’s Singles gold in the 36th National Games at the PDDU Indoor Stadium in Surat on Thursday. B Sai Praneeth (Telangana) justified his top billing by taking the Men’s Singles gold after an intense battle with Mithun Manjunath (Karnataka). He eventually won […]

Cabinet approves Signing of Guarantees for hosting FIFA Under 17 Women’s World Cup 2022 in India

Cabinet approves Signing of Guarantees for hosting FIFA Under 17 Women’s World Cup 2022 in India

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Signing of Guarantees for hosting Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Under 17 Women’s World Cup 2022 in India. FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022 is scheduled to be held in India between 11th and 30th October 2022. The seventh edition of the biennial […]

Football judgments and driving too fast: The science of judging speed

Football judgments and driving too fast: The science of judging speed

Football officials watching slow-motion clips or drivers changing from motorways to 30mph zones could be unconsciously mis-judging speed – and the motivations behind a person’s movements – because their perceptions of ‘normal’ have been altered by recent experiences, new research has found. Vision science researchers tested whether exposure to slow-motion footage of people either running […]