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Vaibhav Raghunandan
City United: Football Brings Together Mumbai, Manchester and New York. In Defeat
22 Nov 2020
The City Football Group had a Saturday to forget. Three teams in their global portfolio of clubs fell -- Mumbai City FC lost to North East United FC in the Indian Super League, Manchester City went…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Safety Concerns Shroud IFA Shield With Organisers & Clubs Unclear About Covid-19 Protocols
21 Nov 2020
Questionable Covid-19 framework — none in fact for the nine Kolkata teams in the fray — with a broad plan based on responsible behaviour from individual players, and without any biosecure bubble, the…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Unoriginal But Understandable — ‘Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona’ Indicative of the Rut That has Swallowed Camp Nou
15 Nov 2020
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona documentary review | The series is made for a new market and fans, not for the ones that already exist. As a consequence details are glossed over and facts dumbed down.…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Chencho Dorji: A Life in Football Dodging the Happiness Trap
03 Oct 2020
Chencho Dorji, the coach of Sudeva Delhi FC, would love to see his side win the title on debut at the I-League this season. However, the game carries a larger meaning to the footballing hermit from…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Race, Gender and Ethics: Caster Semenya’s Fight Had Insurmountable Odds
10 Sep 2020
On September 8, Caster Semenya lost her appeal at Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court, which upheld the ruling made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) last year regarding female runners with…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
A Larger Design: Ten Step History of Art at the Summer Olympics
03 Aug 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight (Series): To notice art one needs to take a step outside the moment. The Olympic podium is always about the moment. So, the medal — a symbol of achievement and glory…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Olympics on Sail: Medal, Mettle and Mayhem in Munich
29 Jul 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight (Series): Captain Soli Contractor, India’s first Olympian in sailing, was on his boat when the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes unfolded at the athletes’ village…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Dichotomy of Gold: India and the Moscow Olympics
28 Jul 2020
Tokyo 2020, the Olympic Fortnight (Series): Ravinder Pal Singh was part of an Indian hockey generation caught in a flux. He also was a member of the team which won India’s last Olympic gold in hockey…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Marcelo Bielsa: Genius That’s Hard to Miss, Harder to Notice, Impossible to Fathom
22 Jul 2020
Marcelo Bielsa’s approach follows his own work ethic — meritocracy over privilege. He chose to start from the bottom and work up, and demands his players do it too. His philosophy revolves around two…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
India U-17 Squad Girls Struggle to Survive as Football Big Boys Talk about Return of Big Leagues
10 Jun 2020
Disbanding camps and sending campers home has resulted in terrible hardship for some of India’s most vulnerable athletes. While planners talk of resuming sporting activity and creating “safe zones”,…