The new Indian League franchise got their squads ready during the week, with a fantasy league type
auction.
The six week run tournament, seen each team bid for an "Icon" player and a foreign coach set up
in the same style as the Indian one day cricket format currently used to great effect.
Like an outdated fantasy league auction, the new Premier League Soccer featuring six teams based
in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal bid for the rights to sign several "icon" players."
Hernan Crespo, who scored nine goals for Parma last season, drew the highest bid and went for
$840,000 (£536,000) at the sprightly age of 36.
By Chris Wright
A gaggle of footballing legends turned out for the UN's ninth annual 'Match against Poverty'
last night, which saw a squad of 30-odd luminaries such as Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo (who are both
UN Goodwill Ambassadors), Didier Drogba, Fernando Couto, Luis Figo, Edgar Davids, Pavel Nedved and
Fabio Cannavaro take on a Hamburg SV All-Stars side in front of a 24,000-strong crowd in
Germany.
By Gareth McKnight
The phrase 'my body is a temple' is fitting for the professional footballer who, through strict
diets, lung-busting fitness drills and daily conditioning training, eventually become the all-round
athletes we watch on a weekly basis.
Despite club doctors and dieticians monitoring and controlling what multivitamins, food and
supplements the average Premier League player puts in his body, some have overstepped the mark,
accidentally, in rebellion or through ignorance.
