City face Chelsea in Community Shield as bigger battles await
LONDON: Manchester City take on Chelsea in Sunday’s Community Shield - the traditional curtainraiser to the English season - but the Wembley showpiece will offer few clues as to the destination of the Premier League title.
The glorified friendly between the league champions and the FA Cup winners has been a notoriously poor predictor of success in recent years no winner has gone on to be crowned champions in the same season since Manchester United in 2010-11.
JAPAN BEAT INDIA U-16
AMMAN: India lost 1-2 against Japan in a 5th WAFF U-16 Championship match here in their first-ever meeting between the two countries at this level.
India took the lead in the 26th minute through Vikram Pratap Singh when he converted from the spot but Japan came back in the second half to pump in two goals, one each from Kuraba Kondo (57th) and Shoji Toyama (64th).
INDIA U-20 DRAW
VALENCIA: INDIA U-20 held Venezuela U-20 to a goalless draw in the COTIF Cup in Spain.
India were represented by 8 boys who were in the final squad of India’s FIFA U-17 World Cup squad while the entire bunch are part of AIFF’S development project Indian Arrows.
India U-20 Head Coach Floyd Pinto stressed that the boys need to play such strong opposition like Venezuela more often.
“Kudos to the boys for the hard work put in along with the staff,” he said.