The second edition of the Hero Intercontinental Cup will be held at the TransStadia Arena in Ahmedabad from July 7 to 18, the All India Football Federation announced on Saturday. The AIFF has already announced the participating teams but the venue of tournament was made known on Saturday only. India, Syria, North Korea and Tajikistan are the participating teams.

Quess East Bengal may enter into tie-up with Spanish giants Barcelona, chairman of the I-League runners-up Ajit Isaac has said in a statement on their official Facebook page. "Senior officials of the Spanish giants, FC Barcelona and Quess East Bengal Football Club team, met to explore the possibility of an association between the two clubs," Isaac was quoted saying on their Facebook page Wednesday.

When he was campaigning for president, Trump railed against professional football, telling an audience that the game had become "soft like our country has become soft." On the eve of Super Bowl LIII weekend, he admitted that he wasn't sure he would want his youngest son to play the game because of "the reports that I see coming out having to do with football."