Name: Focus on legacy as India hosts Under 17 Women's World Cup
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As India prepares to host the FIFA Women's Under 17 World Cup, the focus once again returns on the legacy that the tournament will leave behind. The Tournament director of this edition Roma Khanna in an interview to editorji&nbsp;confirmed that the event will help rear the next generation of footballers in the country.&nbsp;&nbsp;By hosting the 2nd ever World Cup after having the men's under 17 tournament in 2017, the organising committee is aiming to develop and maintain the existing infrastructure that the country has. The Championship kicks off on 2nd November later this year and will be played at 5 venues across India.&nbsp;

As India prepares to host the FIFA Women's Under 17 World Cup, the focus once again returns on the legacy that the tournament will leave behind. The Tournament director of this edition Roma Khanna in an interview to editorji confirmed that the event will help rear the next generation of footballers in the country. By hosting the 2nd ever World Cup after having the men's under 17 tournament in 2017, the organising committee is aiming to develop and maintain the existing infrastructure that the country has. The Championship kicks off on 2nd November later this year and will be played at 5 venues across India.

The Court of Arbitration&nbsp;for Sport on Monday confirmed that Manchester City will not be banned from European competition after the club's successful appeal to the highest court for sports in the world. Earlier the court found the English club guilty of&nbsp;breaching Financial Fair Play regulations and banned them from competing in Europe for 2 years with a 30 million euro fine. The fine is now reduced to 10 million euros and the Citizens are now allowed to compete in European football competitions again.&nbsp;

On Sunday Premier League club Crystal Palace's forward Wilfried&nbsp;Zaha&nbsp;took to his social media account to share screenshots of&nbsp;a series of racist messages and Ku Klux&nbsp;Klan pictures sent to him on his twitter handle. The messages that were sent before the club's match against Aston Villa were sent by a 12-year-old Aston Villa fan. The boy was later arrested after Villa registered a 2-1 win against Crystal Palace. While the age of criminal responsibility in England is 10 years, Aston Villa has openly condemned the fan and has issued a lifetime ban against him.&nbsp;

Premier League giants Arsenal suffered a humiliating North London derby loss to rivals Tottenham&nbsp;at home. The Gunners did everything right for the opening 15 minutes as they started the game with a goal from&nbsp;Alexandre Lacazette&nbsp;at the Emirates. Son Heung&nbsp;Min replied for the Spurs&nbsp;as the equaliser came just a couple of minutes later. It looked like both teams would settle with a point each till late in the 2nd half. Toby&nbsp;Alderweireld&nbsp;gave Jose Mourinho's men the winner in the 81st minute which also guaranteed all 3 points for 8th placed Spurs. For Arsenal, it was a result to forget as they slipped to 9th in the Premier League and with 3 games left to be played, Mikel&nbsp;Arteta's&nbsp;men will be desperate to finish inside top 8 to play in the Europa&nbsp;League.&nbsp;

Premier League champions Liverpool dropped points at home for the first time in the season after Burnley&nbsp;held them to a hard-fought 1-1 draw. After Andrew Robertson put the home side ahead in the 34th minute, Burnley&nbsp;fought back through Jay Rodriguez&nbsp;in the 2nd half. Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp's&nbsp;men got plenty of chances but failed to convert as Burnley's defence looked ruthless and clinical especially in the last 30 mins of play. The 1-1 draw forced Liverpool to share points as their ambitions of beating Manchester City's record of 100 points in a season gets tougher. Liverpool needs to win all three remaining games to better the mark as Burnley&nbsp;climbed to 9th on the points table.&nbsp;

Chelsea suffered an embarrassing&nbsp;loss in the Premier League as they lost to a rampant Sheffield United.&nbsp;David McGoldrick&nbsp;scored twice for Sheffield who is having a dream season along with&nbsp;Oliver McBurnie&nbsp;who scored the 3rd goal. Chelsea's loss comes at a very crucial juncture of the competition as they may slip out of the top 4 and a possible&nbsp;Champions League berth due to this loss. With 60 points from 35 games, Chelsea is 3rd on the table but are 1 point ahead of Leicester City and 2 ahead of Manchester United who both have got a game in hand.&nbsp;

On Friday German football league Bundesliga&nbsp;further&nbsp;pushed back the start of the 2020-21 season by four weeks due to the global pandemic. Earlier the season was scheduled to begin from August 21st, but as per the new schedule, the season will now start from September 18th and will end on May 22. Officials have also halved the Bundesliga&nbsp;winter break which is now only a fortnight-long, starting from December 20 until Jan 3, 2021. The decision has been taken&nbsp;to duly finish the season before the European Championship starts, which is slated to begin from June next year.&nbsp;

Court of Arbitration for Sports announced that the English football&nbsp;club Manchester City will get their verdict for the 2-year ban from UEFA&nbsp;competition on Monday. While a full-written verdict will be published later, the verdict will only include important details of the hearing held from June 8th to 10th via video links. Earlier this year in February,&nbsp;UEFA&nbsp;slapped Manchester City with a 2-year ban from all its competition and a fine of 30 million euros for breaching the Financial Fair Play rules. If the club fails to overturn the ban on Monday, its place in this season's Champions League will remain unaffected.&nbsp;

Real Madrid registered a 2-0 win by beating&nbsp;Alaves&nbsp;as they&nbsp;registered their club's 8th straight&nbsp;win.&nbsp;Benzema's&nbsp;11th-minute&nbsp;penalty and Marco Asensio's&nbsp;goal were the two goals scored by Zinedine&nbsp;Zidane's&nbsp;men who didn't have the services of Sergio Ramos&nbsp;and&nbsp;Dani Carvajal&nbsp;due to suspension and Marcelo due to an injury. But that didn't deter the Madrid based club as they kept a tight defence in the absence of 3 1st choice defenders. 3 points on the night meant that Real Madrid has extended their lead on top of the table to 4 points. With&nbsp;3 games left in the competition, leaders Real&nbsp;Madrid&nbsp;&amp; challengers&nbsp;Barcelona are expected to put up an interesting fight.&nbsp;

English professional footballer Jordan Henderson has been ruled out of the remaining Premier League season after he suffered a knee injury while playing against Brighton on Wednesday. Liverpool manager Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp&nbsp;during the announcement said that&nbsp;while the club's skipper will recover without a surgery,&nbsp;Klopp&nbsp;optimistically&nbsp;said that Henderson will be fit for the start of next season. Liverpool may have been out of this year's Champions League and the FA Cup but Henderson will miss the club's final four Premier league fixtures but Klopp&nbsp;confirmed that he will be available for lifting the Premier League trophy on July 22.

UEFA Champions League last 16 draws were out on Friday.&nbsp;Since the second leg matches are not over yet, it will be either Real Madrid or Manchester City taking on Lyon or Juventus&nbsp;in the first quarter-final.&nbsp;RB Leipzig will take on Atletico&nbsp;Madrid in quarter-final 2. The 3rd quarter-final will see either Napoli&nbsp;or Barcelona locking horns with Chelsea or Bayern&nbsp;Munich. While Paris Saint-Germain&nbsp;will take on American club Atlanta in the 4th and final quart-final. As revealed by UEFA, this season's quarter-finals, semi-finals and final will be played as a straight knockout tournament in Portugal in August.&nbsp;

Atl&eacute;tico de Kolkata&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mohun Bagan&nbsp;which announced their merger in January, will be called&nbsp;ATK Mohun Bagan FC from now on. The board also decided to retain&nbsp;the iconic green and maroon jersey, while the logo will feature the iconic Mohun Bagan boat with addition of 'ATK' to it. Principal Owner&nbsp;of the club Sanjiv Goenka in a statement said that the culture and tradition which has made the brand a household name has been preserved and the logo retains its essence.&nbsp;The club also announced its plans to build a world class football academy in Bengal and to refurbish the existing Mohun Bagan facility so that ISL and AFC home games can be held there.

Dutch football federation has confirmed that they will allow some fans in the stadium when the new season of the Eredivisie&nbsp;starts in September. About 15-35% of the stadium will be occupied with fans who will have to maintain strict social distancing and will always have to wear masks. The fans won't be allowed to chant and will only buy food and beverage from the sellers in the stands. The 2019-20 season of the&nbsp;Eredivisie&nbsp;was abandoned with no title being&nbsp;awarded and the new season will start from September.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Spanish football club Real Madrid's winger Vinicius&nbsp;Jr will undergo another Covid-19 test after an error in the previous one. Club's manager Zinedine&nbsp;Zidane&nbsp;confirmed to the press that the doctors have asked for the test to be repeated as it came out wrong. Zidane&nbsp;added that the result was not negative or positive but there seemed to be an error in the test. Spanish footballers need to undergo continuous tests since the league restarted last month. Till date, no player has tested positive after the restart apart from a couple of footballers from Valencia and Alaves&nbsp;who had a positive result in March.&nbsp;

MLS&nbsp;is Back football tournament&nbsp;got another big&nbsp;blow when Nashville pulled out of the competition after its nine players tested positive for coronavirus. Nashville is the 2nd team after Dallas FC to pull out due to rising infection cases in the team. Interestingly, Nashville travelled to Orlando&nbsp;to play the restart tournament but couldn't train due to the positive test results and will now head back home.&nbsp;

Manchester United extended their unbeaten run to 17 games as they thrashed Aston Villa 3-0 in the Premier League. Mason Greenwood, Paul Pogba&nbsp;and Bruno Fernandes&nbsp;were on target as Ole Gunnar&nbsp;Solskjaer's men overcame a nervy start to hand Aston Villa a bashing. The win keeps United a point behind the 4th placed Leicester&nbsp;City as their European ambitions remain intact. The race for Champions League qualification is getting hotter as 3 teams are now vying for the 3rd &amp; 4th spot in the league with Chelsea, Leicester City &amp; Manchester&nbsp;United separated by just 2 points.&nbsp;Interestingly,&nbsp;Manchester United became the first team in the Premier League history to win four straight games by a margin of 3 or more goals in 33 years.&nbsp;

Barcelona remained alive in La Liga&nbsp;title race after a 1-0 win over already-relegated Espanyol. It was an ill-tempered encounter after Barcelona lost Ansu&nbsp;Fati&nbsp;to a red card and even Espanyol&nbsp;were reduced to 10-men.&nbsp;Luis Suarez scored the only goal of the game early in the 2nd half which was his&nbsp;195th strike with Barcelona making him the club's&nbsp;third top scorer of all time. With the nervy 1-0 win, Barcelona has 76 points from 35 games and are 1 point behind league leaders Real Madrid who have a game in hand. With their performance on Wednesday looking sluggish as per their standards, Quique Setien's&nbsp;side&nbsp;needs to pull up their socks if they were to pose a challenge to Real Madrid.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Premier League Champions&nbsp;Liverpool inched closer towards the 100 point record in a season after they brushed aside Brighton &amp; Hove Albion 3-1. The Reds were up 2-0 in just 8 minutes after Mohd&nbsp;Salah&nbsp;&amp; Jordan Henderson scored a goal each. Salah&nbsp;returned to score another one in the 2nd half which snuffed out the smallest possibility of Brighton attempting to make a comeback. With 92 points, Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp's&nbsp;men need 9 points from their last 4 encounters to better the mark set by Manchester City, who raked in 100 points in the 2017-18 season.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

David Silva was on fire as he scored one and set up 2 goals for Manchester City as they schooled Newcastle United 5-0 in the Premier League.&nbsp;&nbsp;Gabriel Jesus,&nbsp;Riyad Mahrez&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Raheem Sterling&nbsp;got on the scoresheet too as Newcastle helped with an own goal. Courtesy the goal-fest, City became the first team in Premier League history to have five players score 10 or more goals in a single season with Sergio Aguero,&nbsp;Sterling, Jesus, De Bruyne&nbsp;and Mahrez&nbsp;doing the bulk of the scoring. With the Champions already decided in the Premier League, City will be hoping to take a lot of positives from this win towards the FA Cup where they play Arsenal in the semifinals.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Despite a late surge from hosts Crystal Palace, Frank Lampard's&nbsp;Chelsea held on to their slender lead as they won on the road 3-2 to gather 3 crucial points.&nbsp;Olivier Giroud&nbsp;&amp; Christian Pulisic&nbsp;scored in the first half followed by a strike from Tammy Abraham in the 2nd which were good enough to take Chelsea through. Courtesy the 3 points collected from Selhurst&nbsp;Park, Chelsea replaced Leicester City at the 3rd spot on the points table which boosted their chances of qualifying for next season's Champions League.&nbsp;

It was Cristiano&nbsp;Ronaldo&nbsp;vs Zlatan&nbsp;Ibrahimovic&nbsp;as two big superstars of Italian football clashed in Milan on Tuesday night. AC Milan led by Zlatan&nbsp;came out on top against Ronaldo's&nbsp;Juventus&nbsp;after winning the Serie&nbsp;A game 4-2. After being 2 goals down,&nbsp;Ibrahimovic&nbsp;scored a penalty which led to AC Milan's revival. 3 goals came in just 5 mins&nbsp;as the blitzkrieg sunk league leaders Juventus&nbsp;in dramatic fashion. The game finally finished 4-2 in AC Milan's favour as the result meant that Juventus&nbsp;couldn't extend their lead in the points table. Ronaldo's&nbsp;men lead the charts by 7 points ahead of 2nd placed Lazio.&nbsp;

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