Martin Demichelis says that he would love to welcome Lionel Messi to Manchester City … but so would every other team on the planet! And the little magician's Argentina team-mate said the talk around the Barcelona ace as “speculation and rumours”. Messi has been linked with a move to the Blues but after helping City to a 3-1 win over Southampton which took them back to the top of the Premier League, Demichelis said: "It's just speculation and really difficult for me to talk about this. “Every Read more [...]

“The performance was really insufficient today”. “If they continue to commit such errors in the rest of the tournament then it’s a serious concern. But still what I saw today I don’t want to see it anymore”, the captain said. Argentina is a team who likes to defend and rely on fast counter attacks. But all said and done, the HWL Final will be a completely different ball game as top seven teams of the world will be in action. Two days after India’s High Performance Director Roelant Read more [...]

PTI | Nov 28, 2015, 08.44 AM ISTHighlights• The incident took place around 9:30 pm in Math Puraina area. • IG himself visited the spot to take stock of the incident. • Chhattisgarh is hosting the men's Hockey World League Final.Argentina's Hockey Team (Getty Images)RAIPUR: A bus carrying Argentina's hockey team was on Friday accidentally hit by a stone in Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur where the Hockey World League (HWL) final is being hosted, prompting police to review the whole security arrangements. Read more [...]

After his kidnapping, he remained for a few years in leadership roles in the construction and auto manufacturing business empire assembled by his Italian-born father, Franco Macri, before winning an election as the President of Boca Juniors, one of Argentina’s most popular soccer teams. He will take office on December 10, and from the moment he does he’ll have to pull off a next-to-impossible trick: putting out a number of pressing fires consuming the Argentine economy all at once. He said Read more [...]

"We look forward to working with the central bank and the new government on this matter", they said.Lifting capital controls that have limited access to dollars and fusing a multi-tiered exchange rate may lead to a sharp devaluation which, while needed to restore trade competitiveness, will affect consumer prices, so small moves are preferred over more aggressive ones and lifting currency curbs will have to be staggered. Like Macri, he went to school at the elite Cardinal Newman College in Buenos Read more [...]

Rare footage has emerged of Lionel Messi scoring a stunner when he was just 12-years-old. The Barcelona star, who is widely regarded as being the best player on the planet, scored the sort of strike that you expect him to score today. Playing for Newell's Old Boys' academy during a small-sided game, Messi picked up the ball on the halfway line and went on one of the runs he is famed for in the modern game. He first played a neat one-two with his midfield team-mate, as he drove forward to the Read more [...]

Old habits die hard. The Indian men’s hockey team has been trying to do so for the past few years but against Argentina in the opening match of the Hockey World League Finals here, the host paid the price for relapsing into erratic, unplanned action to lose 3-0 on Friday. Two days back, Oltmans had insisted that there were ‘no areas of concern’ for him. After the match, he had to admit it was ‘a disappointing game’ where the players “tried ess ahead from the second quarter onwards Read more [...]

India’s campaign at the Hockey World League Final got off to a dismal start as they suffered a crushing 3-0 defeat at the hands of Argentina in their opening match here on Friday.The Sardar Singh-led side could not match their higher-ranked opponents as a Gonzalo Peillat brace Read more [...]

India dished out a lacklustre performance to go down 0-3 to Argentina in the opening match of the Hockey World League (HWL) Final in front of a packed Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium here today. Argentina scored from three penalty corner situations with Gonzalo Peillat (3rd, 60th minute) finding the net twice while Joaquin Menini (24th) scored the other in the Pool B encounter. India recently jumped two rungs to be placed sixth in the world rankings but that didn't Read more [...]

Argentina thrashed India 3-0 in the Hockey World League (HWL) Final opener played at the Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel International Stadium here on Friday. In the first Pool B match, drag-flick specialist Gonzalo Peillat scored a brace in the third and 60th minute while Joaquin Menini scored in the 24th minute to hand the visitors a comfortable victory. India will play their second group match against Germany on Saturday. Read more [...]