The Pep effect lives on
21 August 2026
Regular football followers may feel a little estranged from the game this season. Fans, admirers and even rivals are bound to miss one familiar figure from the dugouts of the past two decades -- Pep Guardiola.
21 August 2026
Can football stay the people’s game?
31 July 2026
Just days after the biggest FIFA World Cup in history came to a close, FIFA unveiled a proposal that threatens to alter football's future fundamentally.
31 July 2026
World Cup errors shake faith in VAR
28 July 2026
Technology is supposed to make life easier, not the other way around. Yet when it comes to football, it often seems to have made the game more complicated, raising more questions than it answers.
28 July 2026
Where it all came full circle
21 July 2026
At New York-New Jersey Stadium on Monday, several storylines came full circle in the World Cup final.
21 July 2026
Should Nico's goal have stood?: VAR, Argentina and the questions that won't go away
20 July 2026
The dust has settled. Spain lifted their second World Cup title with a 1-0 victory over an Argentina side that never truly showed up in the all-important final at New York-New Jersey Stadium today.
20 July 2026
All set for a blockbuster final
19 July 2026
The stakes could not be higher than they are at a World Cup final. And the grand finale at the New York-New Jersey Stadium on Monday (1:00am Bangladesh Time) could hardly have been scripted better, with Lionel Messi's Argentina taking on Lamine Yamal's Spain in a showdown set to bring the curtain down on the biggest edition in the competition's history.
19 July 2026
Golden Boot: The only prize left for Mbappe to chase
18 July 2026
The third-place decider is often described as the World Cup's most unwanted fixture. No player begins a tournament dreaming of featuring in it, yet one of the semifinal losers has to walk away with bronze while the other leaves empty-handed.
18 July 2026
Messi is inevitable
17 July 2026
Lionel Messi turned 39 during the course of this World Cup. Yet the things he has done, the numbers he has produced, and the sheer excellence he has displayed in North America continue to defy age and time.
17 July 2026
The year of Mehedi's elevation
After losing Tamim Iqbal, their most dependable opener, to a left knuckle fracture sustained in the first match of the Asia Cup against
24 December 2018
A glimmer of hope
A relatively small ground with an uneven pitch in the middle and unkempt grass all around -- it sounds like the description of a ground where amateur school level tournaments are usually held. But unfortunately the above description is of the Gulshan Youth Club Sports Ground, where the Dhaka First Division Women's Cricket League, organised by BCB, is currently being held.
22 November 2018