Is the Ronaldo-Messi era coming to an end?

Age is catching up with the two footballing maestros The start of the 2019-20 football season has seen both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi missing from most of their respective club’s matches. For someone like me, who has grown up watching the two maestros compete with each other for over a decade, I must say […]

The fitness mantra

Indian athletes are hitting the gym and staying on strict diets to improve their game at the highest international level. Patriot breaks down this recent trend Recently, Anand Mahindra in his Twitter page shared a video that showed World Badminton champion PV Sindhu working out in the gym. The world champion shuttler was busy doing […]

FIFA’s best?

Patriot takes a look at players who have been wrongly snubbed in FIFA’s best XI for 2018-19 season In the recently concluded FIFA “The Best” award ceremony, it was Lionel Messi who took the crown of the world’s best player for a record sixth time – and that decision was unanimously accepted by one and […]

Showcase of the champions

Patriot analyses the groups of this year’s Champions League and predicts who is most likely to qualify based on the strengths of the teams involved The football season started last month when all the domestic leagues in Europe including the likes of the English Premier League and the Spanish La Liga began. But according to […]

Mission Fifa World Cup

Patriot analyses why it is difficult for India to dream for a place in the FIFA World Cup as of yet, and how a club by honing young players is planning to make India play the tournament in 2030 Indian football scaled new heights on September 9 when they held Asian Champions Qatar to a […]

Deals of the summer

Patriot takes a look at some of the transfers of the 2019 summer transfer window, that couldn’t grab headlines but prove to be crucial in the long run After two months of speculation and teams all over Europe splashing the cash, the transfer window finally came to a halt on the midnight of August 3. […]

‘We are Asia’s No. 1 team now’

Naveen Kapoor, captain of the India Inline Hockey Juniors team, talks to Patriot about the challenges representing India at the international front, his first World Cup, World Roller Games and his favourite competition, the Asian Championship How did you get into this sport? I was in 1st grade in school and had this skating championship […]

Living the Spanish dream

Three Indian footballers created history as they were selected for CD Olimpic De Xativa, thus becoming the first Indian men to become part of Spanish football Football in India has progressed a lot in the past few years. From being ranked 173rd in the FIFA rankings in 2015, the country now stands at 103rd in […]