Scoring goals despite odds

New Seemapuri in north-east Delhi has the most unhygienic conditions as well as juvenile crime, but football spells hope for its young residents

Playing ball again

Capital’s once robust football scene suffered since early 2000s but progress made over the past four years seems to be bringing the sport back on track

Football fever hits low pitch

The ongoing World Cup in Qatar was expected to boost the sales of football merchandise but due to the winter season and post Covid economic crisis, the demand has been low

It’s just not cricket

Sports bars in NCR are showing lukewarm response to the upcoming Football World Cup unlike the T20 World Cup which ended last week and witnessed huge attendance as well as offers during live screenings

SC stops Delhi HC-appointed panel of administrators from taking over affairs of Indian Olympic Association

Earlier in the day, the solicitor general sought urgent hearing and said the appointment of the CoA may lead to the Association's suspension by the International Olympic Committee as it happened in the case of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) recently.

Delhi’s sports icons outline the evolution of sports in the capital

Top achievers like cricketer Madan Lal, footballer Surinder Kumar and others among Delhi’s sporting community tell Patriot about how the landscape of five major fields has changed in the national capital

Given what we saw in Euro 2020

With the conclusion of Euro 2020, the Patriot has made an effort to debate about a good mix of all these known and unknown faces to come up with a ‘one perfect playing XI’ that our readers would love to read about…   Euro 2020 has entered our history books, but not before it turned […]

ESL: Greed or pure professionalism?

The new Super League model would create a world of its own rich and famous player — allowing them to split the billions of dollars in annual revenue among themselves Football, as we know it, is about to change forever. Good or bad? Out of greed or for the love of the game? The questions […]