Lionel Messi to play in Kolkata in September

Argentine superstar Lionel Messi and his teammates will play a official international friendly match against Venezuela at Salt Lake's Yuba Bharati Krirangan on September 2. The Argentina Football Association would be bringing in a full-strength squad including Messi and this would be Argentina's first match after the COPA America debacle.

The match at Kolkata would be followed by another one against Nigeria on September 6 at Dhaka. Messi would also be getting the chance to captain Argentina for the first time in his career and this would be a great moment for this football magician from Argentina. Unfortunately Argentinian star Carlos Tevez would not be playing as he could not earn a place in the 26 member Argentinian team.

Argentinian football officials had inspected the venue of the match and they were quite satisfied. They also inspected the ground that is decided for the practice sessions and came with a positive result.  Members of Argentinian and Venezuela football team would arrive at Kolkatta on 28th of August.

All India Football Federation vice-president Subrata Dutta is confident that the match will be a turning point in India's football history. He also told that the match would inspire others to organize more such matches

Cristiano Ronaldo to be the Face of PES 2012

Konami Digital Entertainment has announced that Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo who is one of the most expensive player in the world, is to be the face of Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) 2012. So from now own the talented Read Madrid midfielder will be appearing on all packaging and marketing materials.

Cristiano Ronaldo has taken this privilege from Lionel Messi who has been the face of PES for years. Ronaldo's skill, speed and devastating power have helped him a lot in becoming the face of PES 2012. The 26 year Ronaldo has performed amazingly for his clud Real Madrid as well as his national team Portugal and was selected as the FIFA world player of the year in 2008. He has played 82 matches so far for Portugal and has scored 27 goals.

PES 2012 will also be released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows PC on 27th of September in North America and October 14th in Europe.

2 World Cup Championships Passed by Since My Last Post

This is really a matter of shame which I know and cannot help myself from being ashamed on not updating this blog for such a long period. I started this blog to offer information regarding world cup soccer championship, but I could not fulfil my goal so far.  I would try my best to cover updates related to world cup football matches, world cup qualifying matches and even the club level information. So be tuned for some better updates in the coming days.