Punjabi Kabaddi: Love, Frustration and Hope

Not to confuses with Kabaddi that's played inside rectangular field, I'm here to discuss about the CIRCLE style kabaddi mostly played in Punjab.

Just briefly Rules Of Circle Style Kabaddi :-
Kabaddi is played between two teams for example team A and team B, it's played inside a circular ground which is halved such that one half become team A's territory while the other team B's.
7 players in each team, there are 4 stoppers/defenders and 3 raiders/attackers.

The 4 stoppers defend there territory, One raider would enter there territory and have to touch one of the stoppers and leave with in 30 seconds. Only stopper that can stop the raider is the one who the raider touched and the other 3 would have no role in that raid(or play). Each team will send there raiders alternatively, for each successful raid you get one point and zero if you fail similarly for successful  stop get one point and non if you fail to stop. There are 4 quarters each 10 minutes long.

kabaddi players offten use wrestling, jui jitsu and judo techniques

Kabaddi is amazing, i can't express how much i enjoy watching it, but i don't understand why it's not a popular sport, it got all the ingredients to be a top sport. Firstly, the players, they're larger than life, they're massive and charismatic just like wwe superstars and some even have cult like following. Secondly, the sport is to easy to understand, you won't be sitting and wondering what's happening, for instant if an american watches cricket for the first time they won't understand what going on, same-way if an Indian watches baseball or NFL they won't understand it either because these sports are complicated to understand, unlike soccer or basketball or even mma which are easy to understand that's why they are more popular worldwide. Thirdly, women's kabaddi is as fun to watch as men's or probably even more. Finally, kabaddi match only lasts for almost an hour, so you won't be investing much of your time watching it.

Women's Kabaddi 

There're a lot of fans of kabaddi especially in north India and Pakistan however for them it's really hard to follow there favorite players because they play for a lot of different teams and in different countries as well as kabaddi doesn't get any T.V. coverage and most of the matches are organized in villages and the schedule is very random. The most frustrating thing for fans is that there is no proper league or competition. Sony Six in India started the World Kabaddi League in 2014 but it turned out to be a disaster, it was run by people who knew nothing about the sport and what fans wanted. The players uniforms were a joke, in some matches the mat was slippery making players look bad. The World Kabaddi League was not only ugly but also a blemish on the sport itself.

Sandeep Nangal Ambia (England) vs Sukhveer Suravan (India)

We need a multi-millionaire or a billionaire to save this sport. For Kabaddi to grow and become a popular sport it need to be organised (the organization that there are i don't even know why they exist). I think if we could make a league and if we can present it the way it should be there's no doubt in my mind that it would grow and grow fast. I've so many ideas in my brain but for that i would have to sit here for hours to type them down. The state of kabaddi is so annoying, watching these players highlight from a match at a village is not what i'm interested in I want to see them compete in actual competition.



                                       
                                                  Kabaddi match between India and Pakistan

Top 5 Punjabi Rap Songs

The list is not in proper order, the best Punjabi rap songs ever.

Bohemia

YO YO Honey Singh

TOP 5 RAP SONGS

Badshah ft. Honey Singh

Perhaps the most controversial song ever in India with the most vulgar lyrics but the song is still popular among st the youth

Bohemia - Ek Tera Pyar

Untitled - Honey Singh 

Not an official song but the best of Honey Singh

Sahara - Bohemia

      Number 1.  Bohemia - Kali Denali

                                                                                               Easily the best Rap song ever

Problem facing Indian football

I think the biggest problem that Indian Football is facing is that no-one wants to take football as a career.

Parents Don't Want There Kids To Become a Footballer. Parents need to encourage there kids and they would do if there kids interest is in Cricket but not in any other sports here in India(although my parents wanted me to be a sportsperson but unfortunately i had a treble injury). I played for my school football team at every level and during those days i have seen allot of good players playing alongside me few of them were so good i thought they could play for India national team, even know when i go and watch some young kids in inter school events there are some really good ones out there but one thing i noticed is that no-one really wants to take it as a career and no-one really dreams to play for India which is very sad. While Mom-Dad will come to watch there kids play in a cricket match in any school level completion in case of football no-one is really interested.

Baichung Bhutia &Schweinsteiger (India vs Bayern Munich)

 No One Dreams To Play For India

While Euro 2012 had record breaking viewers watching Italy and Spain final in India. No one really cares about when Indian National team is playing. While kids now a days dream or wish they could play for top European team like AC Milan, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus, Bayern Munich etc, most of them don't even know the name of prestigious Indians football clubs like Mohun Bagan, East Bengal, JCT mills etc. Players like C.Ronaldo, Messi, Pirlo, Boffon, Klose, Kaka, Beckham etc are household names in India among football lovers but no one knows who Denzil Franco, Sunil Chhetri, Mehtab Hussain, etc are.

European Football Dominates In India [Pirlo, Buffon, De Rossi(Roma), Chiellini(Juventus) of Italy ]

Coaches

The Coaches at school level are really bad some who are PT teachers made in-charge really know nothing about the game. This would never help any kid to grow as a footballer

AC Milan 3 - 1 Bologna

Milan get there first victory of the new season, well it wasn't as comfortable as the score line suggest. Coach Allegri decided to go with formation the 4-3-1-2 rather than 4-3-3 which he used against Sampdoria. Milan started better and got a controversial penalty when Nicolo Cherubin dragged down Pazzini, who made the most of his fall. Pazzini then stepped upto take the penalty and gave Milan the lead. The home team then got into the game and started to dominate with captain Diamanti in super form. Montolivo was unable to continue due to hamstring ingury and was subbed 4 minutes before the end of first half and was replaced by new signing De Jong. After few second's of his debute Milan conceded a penalty when  Acquafresca was caught in front of Nocerino and fall. Diamanti stepped up and sent Christian Abbiati the wrong way to draw his side level. The second half started well for the home team but Milan was getting back into the game with both the side-backs Antonini and De Sciglio bombing forward and helping in attack. Boetang also looked dangerous. Mialn then introduced Bojan who really did well compared to El Shaarawy who didn't had a good game. Bojan made some clever runs and made the defense of Bologna work much more. Then in the 77 minute Milan got there second goal after horrendous error from Bologna goalkeeper Agliardi. Antonini's cross from the left looped up in the air off Motta and was fumbled by the home goalkeeper, allowing Pazzini to fire home the loose ball from close range. Pazzini then scored his third goal in the 85 minute when he deftly flicked in Nocerino's low shot. Milan after that looked comfortable in keeping the possession of the ball for last 5 minutes and eventully winning the match 3-1. Pazzini was easily the man of the match of the match with his hat-trick, also which would boost his confidence also of the Milan fans. Acerbi also had a great game really looked strong in defense and also made some good play from behind. With this win Milan would gain a lot of confidence and a lot of positives should be taken. 

Italian Serie A is back 2012/13

  So Italian Serie A starts from tomorrow, very excited since English Premier League and Spanish La Liga are already underway. I'm not a fan of EPL or La Liga i only watch Italian Calcio(football). I just love it, there's so much drama emotion in every match and its the hardest league to win even Jose Mourinho has admitted that, the fans are awesome the only down point is the stadiums most of them are in a horrendous conditons.  
  Serie A 2012/13. 
                       Although lot of big names from Italy have left specially from my beloved AC Milan and there also many big names still being linked with a move away from Italy to England before the transfer window ends like Jovetic and Maicon. The departure of so many world class player does effect the appeal of the league globally but it gives chance for some new talent to come through. this season league should also be the most closet in recent years, clubs like Lazio and Napoli did well in previous seasons also have done good in transfer market and Milan and Inter have weakened allot, Juventus are strong and have done brilliantly in transfer market but it would be interesting to see how do they coup without there inspirational manager Conte after been banned for 10 months. Fiorentina with a new young manager and have also bought allot of exciting players and if they can also hold on to there key man Jovetic they could be a surprise package this season, Udinese don't know what to accept from them after Asamoha and Isla transfered to Juve and i still have mentioned ROMA, really impressed by the squad and player the have bought but i was pissed when Borini left and joined Liverpool, every time an Italian player leave Serie A for a foreign specially to England, it pisses me. The relegation battle would also be interesting. Palermo, Sampdoria, Genoa love to you all.

Prediction for 2012/13 Serie A.

                                    Its tough really hard, i can't pick one team to win it before the season start, i think it would be a battle between Juventus, Roma, Inter, Napoli and hopefully my beloved Milan(not expecting much this season). Inter have done some good work late in the transfer window will it be good enough? god know! and Napoli bought depth to there squad and quality in there defense and with no Champions League distraction, who knows they can be the surprise package. I would have picked JUVENTUS to win the Title but because of Conte's ban I'll be bold and pick Napoli to win Serie A 20012/13. In what would be a thrilling season yet again in Italian football.

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What if : Juventus where in good hands

This is what if blog, blog about juventus and after all the ridiculous signing's, here in this blog i am writing about  my juventus squad for 2011/12 just because i am sick and tired of Juventus board or management destroying such a great club.

GOALKEEPERS:-
 There is no need to buy or sell any goal-keeper, so lets not discuss about it.
DEFENCE:-

Neven Subotic for Dortmund

The area where juve really need to focus, the juve defence needs complete make-over Bonucci has not impressed, him and Chiellini doesn't form a good patnership. The best player i can think to patner Chiellini would be Neven Subotic who was important part of Borussia Dortmund team which won bundesliga coinciding just 22 goals. Juventus have signed Reto Ziegler although i would prefer Fabio Coentrao but considering he is worth 30 million i think it would be stupid to sign a left back for 30 million. At right juve have been linked with Lichtsteiner and i would sign him since there are not to many world class right back out there.  As a sub for Chiellini i would prefer Luisao and Barzagli can be swaped with AC Milan's Bonera just because he can play as a right back also. PDC will stay and a right back to cover Lichtsteiner.
MIDFIELD:-

Pastore to juve a dream

Juventus have already signed Andrea Pirlo and i think they need a defensive midfielder to protect him Melo is a good player but i am not a big fan of his that is why some one like Porto's Fernando would be perfect, he is expensive but you can add Sissoko in the deal, Marchisio should be important player this season juve have not used him properly and in diamond midfield which i have chosen he would be perfect box-box midfielder next to deep-lying playmaker Pirlo and defensive midfielder Fernando. Melo can sit on the bench and can be used as sub for Marchisio or Fernando. On top of the diamond you need someone like Kaka but he would be impossible so i would prefer the next big thing the man so similar to him Javier Pastore. Since Pastore would be so expensive they would need to make a sacrifice and sell the over-rated Krasic(he is not good enough).
FORWARD:-
Juventus first of all need to understand wheather or not they want to make loan signing of Matri and Quagliarella permanent or not i would prefer they sign both of them because both of them scored a lot of goals and i could see both of them ahead of diamond midfield like Shevchenko and Crespo/Inzaghi where for Milan. There would be no need of signing any more players since Del Piero and Iaquinta are enough on the bench this season. Toni and Iaquinta can leave in 2012/13 and Quagliarella could sit on the bench and they could sign some one like Jovetic or Aguero, Jovetic would be my choice.

MANAGER:-

Carlo is the man

All Juventus need at this moment is a manager  who could change this club and bring trophies, is CONTE the man, nobody knows does juve fan deserve this hell no! because they have already suffered a lot. I would have prefered some-one like Carlo Ancelotti because he would have brought success he would have changed this club.

FORMATION:-
 Buffon;  Lichtsteiner, Subotic Chiellini Ziegler; Fernando Pirlo Marchisio Pastore; Matri Quagliarella