Greatest Moments in Sporting World

 When it comes down to football, there are several players, clubs, nations and leagues that come to mind but there is always the cream of the crop. The prestige and stature of a football club is usually based upon their history as a club and the domestic and European Titles they've won. Since 1992, the European Cup was reestablished as the Uefa Champions League and is the most prized club competition amongst the top 5 leagues in Europe.  When it comes to the UCL, or as some football fanatics call it the Uefa Cristiano League as a tribute to the highest goal scorer in the tournament's history. It's his stellar performances and link up with Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema that formed one of the most lethal trios in world football - dubbed the 'BBC'. Real Madrid has now won the tournament, a record, 13 times with the second highest being 6 (Bayern Munich, Milan). They've outclassed the second and third best by a double margin. Out of which 4 of them have been won in ...

  Leicester’s Premier League triumph in 2014-15 season will always be remember as the greatest underdog story in world football.   After a great escape in a season prior foxes under the guidance of Italian maestro Claudio Ranieri did the unthinkable after winning Premier League title for the first time in clubs’ rich history. At the beginning of the season, Leicester had 5000-1 odds of winning the league suggesting they would probably be relegated to TheChampionship (2nd tier of English football). When the season began, Leicester City players performed like they had a point to prove especially the English talesman Jamie Vardy who spent most of his career playing for lower tier teams & Algerian winger Riyad Mahrez. These two proved to be Leicester’s main men going forward. After first 6 games, Leicester was unbeaten and sat at 3 rd in the league table. Foxes were flying high when they received their first setback came down crashing after 5-2 thumping by Arsenal at home....

The Federer–Nadal rivalry (normally known as Fedal Rivalry) is between two tennis professional players Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, regarded by many as the two greatest tennis players of all time. These two giants of tennis have played each other 40 times (as of April 2021) where Nadal has got the better of his swiss rival 24 times, meanwhile Federer won the bout 16 times. This rivalry span over 16 years and has produced some of the greatest encounters, inarguably the greatest match of all times played at the finals of Wimbledon 2008 between the 2 in which the Spaniard got the better of Federer. Both players hold the top 2 spots for men’s most grand slam titles won with 20 GS titles each. Together they won 11 consecutive grand slams titles from Roland Garros 2005 till 2007 US Open, as well as 6 consecutive titles on two separate occasions. Furthermore, they are the only pair who have finished 6 consecutive calendar years as the top 2 in ATP rankings. Out of their 40 matches, 20 ...

 The European Super League has officially reached a terminal ending finally after abrupting the footballing pyramid all across Europe, with all 12 initial participants pulling out of any further participation in the venture. JP Morgan charged in with a staggering investment of $3.5 billion in order to finance the league and it’s requirements, attracting attention from 6 teams from the English Premier League, Serie A and La Liga. Big names such as Man Utd, Man City, Milan, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Liverpool being some of the primary 12 to sign up for the competition. The ESL was a direct threat to the most prestigious club football tournament in current circumstances, and since the last 28 years – the Uefa Champions League. The motive to join was a wider and tougher competition but also with the founding clubs receiving a big reward for their participation in the form of $425 million to each club. Neither players, nor managers and most importantly no fan took this well and l...

  Pakistan has only won the world cup once and it was under the captaincy of its current Prime minister Imran khan. There were many turn of events and out of know where the “unpredictable” team   won the tournament with many ups and downs throughout the world cup. It was during the month of Ramzan and was Pakistan cricket’s most triumphant moment in history. Let’s take a nostalgic trip down the memory lane and look at how Pakistan progressed. The Cricket World Cup 1992 was the first to have coloured kits, day/night games and new white balls at each bowlers’ end. The Pakistani team was struggling with injuries going into the competition. Paceman Waqar Younis was out due to back injury, Imran Khan sustained a shoulder injury limiting his bowling capacity, Javed Miandad had back problems. Captain Imran Khan had remarked that the team was at the rock bottom of their morale. It had taken fortuitous drops of rain to restore life to a withering World Cup campaign, forcing abandonme...

             To increase the enthusiasm of sports inside every individual, the modern Olympic Games or Olympics are held every four years. Athletes from different countries join this marathon to achieve their goals by cultivating human beings and contributing to major world peace factors. These games are featured for both summer and winter season sports which include more than 200 countries, leading their professional athletes to participate in a variety of competitions. Discussing the history of the Olympics, these worldwide held games were introduced first in the 8th century at Olympia, Greece. The general motto of these games was to develop athleticism and fitness inside humans and, growing their physical and mental health to complete with the modern changes in the environment.                The Olympics include more than 300 different courses of games which gives rise to many athletes to be displaye...

  The master of snooker Ronnie O’Sullivan is a professional snooker player from England. Ronnie is known as “The Rocket” in the game. Starting his career by playing snooker at age of 10. Turning professional at the age of 16 in 1992 after winning his first IBSF world snooker championship Under 21. What are the odds for a 16-year boy turning professional to win a ranking title competing with the world’s finest players?   Well, Rocket won his first ranking title 1993 UK championship at age of 17 making him the youngest player to win a professional tournament and still holding the record, beating Stephen Hendry in the final. He competed with players such as Stephen Hendry, Steve Davis, and Dennis Taylor, etc. Currently, as of 2021, Ronnie O’Sullivan won 6 world championship titles, a record-breaking 7 Masters Championships and 7 UK championships. In the world of Snooker, Rocket is known to be the most successful triple crown player in the game. What to more expect from a winn...

  A very well name of Pakistan cricket, Babar Azam has now shown up his class in the past couple of years. He was born on 15 October 1994 in the city of Lahore. A couple of days before he achieved a milestone of becoming the number one ODI batsman surpassing Virat Kohli.  In his recent tour to South Africa, he has shown a remarkable performance throughout the series. Babar Azam's recognition point was when he scored three consecutive centuries against West Indies in the ODI series and became the third Pakistani batsman to score a century in the 3-match ODI series, that was the point when the world came to know about Babar Azam in a more in-depth way. Babar Azam is now the captain of the Pakistan team (Test, ODI, and T20I), he has up till now captained 14 matches, has won 8 matches, and lost 3 matches.  Pakistan is now currently playing a series against Zimbabwe in their homeland, and he is now looking to break the record of Virat Kohli becoming the fastest batsman to reac...

  From the club perspective, Spain has always dominated football for almost 75 years now, after the inception of European Cup in 1955, Spanish club Real Madrid dominated the competition winning the first 5 titles of Europe’s premium club competition. Spanish clubs have won the European League (now known as UEFA Champion League) 18 times, 6 more than closest rivals England & Italy whom both have 12 tittles to their name. However, until 2008, Spain’s only had one international title to their name that came in 1964 when they won the European Nations Cup against defending champions Soviet Union on their home turf.   For the next 4 decades Spain did not taste any success in Europe. In 2008, Spain finally emerged as footballing giants. Spain under the management of Luis Aragones entered the UEFA Euros 2008, with a star-studded squad which consisted of Iker Casillias (captain), Carles Puyol, Sergio Ramos, David Silva, Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas, Xabi Alonso, David Vi...