1. FIFA wants to promote football in India's villages. World soccer body FIFA has shown interest in developing the game in India's villages. India's sports minister M.S. Gill during his meeting with FIFA president Sepp Blatter in Zurich, on Wednesday, discuses a road map for the development of Indian football. Mr. Gill requested Mr. Blatter to give some FIFA assistance to the government-sponsored Panchayat Yuva Krira aur Khel Abhiyan (PYKKA) to develop the game at the grassroots level in India.
2. ESPN joins pitch battle for armchair football fans. Burnley, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Birmingham City are not the only Premier League new boys on show at the season's kick-off this weekend – broadcaster ESPN, fronted by BBC transfer Ray Stubbs, is also lining up. Disney-owned ESPN bagged the rights to screen 46 live Premier League matches in the 2009/10 season (and 23 games per season between 2010 and 2013) after Setanta, the Irish pay-TV operator, folded this summer.
3.Cricket board to give Rs.250 million for Indian football. The Indian cricket board Thursday announced that it would give Rs.250 million as grant to the All India Football Federation (AIFF) in the next two years for the development of football in the country.
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