Pakistani Star Yousuf Now in ICL

November 20th, 2008 Robi Cricket 0

mdyOne of the senior Pakistani batsmen Mohammad Yousuf (born 27, August 1974) has already flown to India to play the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) in spite of his selection on 3 November Monday in the national team for three one-day international matches against West Indies in Abu Dhabi this month.

Here on Monday, in a news conference Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) operations director Zakir Khan said, “He (Yousuf) didn’t tell us he was going to India. We heard about it ourselves two hours back. We called up his home and his wife has confirmed he has gone to India to play in the ICL.”  He added, Yousuf would be banned from all cricket in Pakistan if he played in the Twenty20 competition.

On the other hand, The ICL authority already filed a legal case against this Pakistani star batsman with an arbitrator in Mumbai, India for breach of contract after he (Yousuf) first signed for them in August of 2007 and after that returned his advance payment and decided to get an agreement in the officially approved Indian Premier League. But that case is still pending.

The news, Yousuf has joined ICL, shock to Pakistani cricket fans and well-wishers since just a few hours earlier Yousuf was named in the national team squad to play three one-day internationals. He has been served for Pakistan National Cricket Team since 1998.

Real Striker Van Nistelrooy Out for the Season

November 18th, 2008 Rajib Football, Soccer 0

Van NistelrooyReal Madrid striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy will miss the rest of this season after having surgery on his right knee, the club said on this Thursday. The 32 years Dutchman went to the United States this week to confer with surgeon Richard Steadman. After the consult a medical report on RealMadrid.com said,

“The estimated time he will be out of action is between six and nine months, depending on his evolution.”

Van Nistelrooy received the blow on his knee while playing against Juventus in the Champions League three weeks ago. Now in the middle of league Real Madrid staying in a poor spell. And after the injury of Nistelrooy it already means Van Nistelrooy will not play again in the 2008-09 season for his club.

Real Madrid is always a big and fulfill club of quality players and they performed well in all types of competition. But in this year they are struggling through a poor spell of form and are already missing key players including central midfielder Ruben de la Red Dutch winger Arjen Robben, and defender Pepe. Nistelrooy was Real’s top scorer in his first season with 25 league goals and equaled a club record of scoring in seven matches in chain. He scored 16 league goals last season and extended his agreement to keep him in Madrid until 2010. Real striker Gonzalo Higuain said,

It’s very sad because Ruud is a very important player.” He also added that, “We hope he will be back with us as soon as possible because he is a great player and a very good person.

So, his injury is a real problem for Madrid. Cause Real Madrid now fall in big crisis of strikers. The club spent the entire summer chasing Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United and ignored to sign another center forward. For this reason they have already lost their great striker Robinho. Now they have only two quality strikers Gonzalo Higuain and Raul. So what will now doing the Real’s administrators, it will be great to see?

Horse Racing - An Exiting Game

November 15th, 2008 admin Horse Racing 0

Horse RacingHorse racing has been considered as a very interesting and exciting game since ancient time. In ancient time it was played for entertain the king or emperor. But nowadays the racing not only entertains you but also it may a source of earning for you because nowadays there are many companies offer you to bet on horse racing. Moreover, in these days there are many thing build up to base on the race and racing place.

Today many people get together and offer or throw many parties such as weddings, birthdays, exhibitions and some others social event. So you can consider a racing place a social community center. And to realize this reality the entrepreneurs of horse racing set many panoramic bar, various restaurant; moreover, they offer special private box and different types of suits for personal meeting or arrangement.

The style and way of racing, its rules, distances, players’ quantity and the type of events varies place to place, country to country. Moreover, sometimes you find out in the same country and in the same places different types of race occur. And among the places some places are very popular for several years, for example in the UK Kempton Park is very famous in horse racing.

Horse Racing at Kempton is very enjoyable for anyone because they offer various types of exiting world best events in different times. Here the races are occurred all the year round. The authorities provide a race calendar for the viewer so that anyone can pick a suitable time. Moreover, the authorities provide all types of modern facilities and services to make the racing more enjoyable to you. So, if you want to watch world top class racing, just cheek their racing calendar and choose a perfect schedule for you to watch an exiting horse racing.

Betting on Football now in Your Home

November 9th, 2008 admin Football 0

football bettingNowadays bet on football is not a new concept; moreover online betting technology added extra dimension on betting world and make this betting popular among the people all over the world. As a result, day by day the numbers of punters who enjoy and participate betting on football online go up tremendously. The reason of behind to increase the number of punters enormously is that the online football betting offers an user friendly, easy, simple, convenient and suitable way to bet on different football matches or any events. Additionally, the online betting has a lot of advantages over conventional offline bookmakers such as for this you need not go to outside from your home. You can bet on any football match from your living room, office, cyber cafe, street or any other place as your wish because for this betting you just need a PC or laptop with internet connectivity.

There are a good number of football betting web sites on the net. Many of them are very easy to registration and sign up. Moreover, some of those offer you free bets and discount sign up deals. As a result, you can able even to bet on any types of football matches for free. On the other hand, most of these sites compiled, for new punters, a very easy and quick guide so that the punters can easily know how to bet on match and what they offer and facilitate in terms of online football betting. Moreover, these betting sites provide you all kind of necessary information about matches and any individual match related other essential information before start any specific match so that you can easily analyses match condition and bet on your desire team. So if you want to enjoy betting on football, please come online, participate and get new feelings.

Maradona is going to be an Argentine Couch at 48th Birthday!

October 30th, 2008 admin Football 0

Diego MaradonaDiego Maradona (born 30, October, 1960), troubled soccer icon, has been offered the post of Argentine football couch at a meeting with Julio Grondona, the head of the Argentina Football Association, on 28 October Tuesday in Buenos Aires, is expected to be confirmed as the post of coach on 30 October Thursday, his 48th birthday. If Maradona, Veteran Argentine football great, accepts the position, he is expected to trip Glasgow within three weeks’ time to observe his new charges play Scotland in a friendly at Hampden. But he is expected to settle some minor issues before accepting the offer. To make a remark about the new post, he said, “The offer has attracted me a lot. As soon as it is confirmed, I will start working, but I can say I am very proud. We have to keep talking. There are some things to resolve. This is just beginning.”

Argentina’s most watched, favorite and respected cable television station, Todo Noticias; and Clarin newspaper’s website reported that Maradona, the football legend, had been named to replace Alfio Basile, the ex-couch, who quit on last 16 October.

For this new position, he had to face competition from Carlos Bianchi, the former coach of Boca Juniors and San Lorenzo coach Miguel Angel Russo along with Sergio Batista who took the Under-23 squad to Olympic gold in Beijing in August. But finally the legend has got the offer though his previous coaching experiences and performance have not been satisfactory. The great led Deportivo Mandiyu in the year of 1994 and Racing Club in the year of 1995, but in both cases he abandoned the post before the agreement was up. Moreover, for the further assistance the Argentina Football Association is likely to appoint 1986 World Cup-winning coach Carlos Bilardo as team manager or general director.

After the meeting, Maradona said to the media to give a strong hint that he would like to accept the new offer to take charge. He said, “As soon as it is confirmed, I will start working, but I can say I am very proud. We will continue talking tomorrow”. “The idea is to start working immediately after the official announcement with the players who are in Argentina and then take the first plane to talk to the ones in Europe,” accords to Fox sports. He also said, “Now we’re just waiting for it to be official. The idea is to get started right away when it becomes official.” He added, “I’ll put together the team, I’ll choose the players and I’m sure Carlos will take care of a ton of other things.” Now Argentine people wait to see, can Maradona and Bilardo combination present the next word cup to the nation as 86 where Maradona was captain and Bilardo was couch?