The Sporting Spotlight

 What After Sunil Chettri? It is one of the biggest questions echoing in Indian football society, but still we are not able to find answer to this question. Sunil Chettri has been the driving force of Indian football team from last few years. In last 10 matches played by India only one player named other than Chettri is able to score a goal for India. This has caused lots of problems to Indian football team, resulting in loosing matches to even weaker teams like Afghanistan and Bangladesh in World Cup qualifying matches, denting their chances of qualification. It is not that India have not tried other forwards or they don't have good quality strikers but none of them has been able to perform well. One of the reasons for this is beginning of ISL, the new top division of football league in India. In order to win the ISL trophy most of the coaches select foreign strikers to play and score more goals. This has resulted in conversion to wingers. Hence, when they play for India they are

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE A new season of Champions League is just around the corner. Just two months ago Bayern Munich defeated PSG in Lisbon to complete their second treble. Champions League the most prestigious European club competition is held every year to decide best club team across the continent. It was started way back in 1955 as " European Champion Clubs' Cup " where champions of domestic leagues across Europe participated in a straight knockout competition. The competition was rebranded in 1992 as " UEFA Champions League " with addition of group stages and inclusion of multiple teams from certain countries. It became the first branded club competition in the world. In its current format, 32 clubs(26 from different leagues and 6 from qualifiers) are divided in 8 groups of 4 teams each with 2 teams from each group qualifying for the knockout stages. Since its inception 22 clubs have won the competition. Clubs from Spain have been most successful with 18 titles f