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By Anmol Alphonso A video showing footballers from the Karnataka state team waiting on a pavement outside former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai's residence after winning the Santosh Trophy in March this year is being shared with a false claim that it is recent. The video is being shared criticising current Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for treating the players poorly. In the viral video also includes an inset video of a YouTuber speaking over the visuals. Santosh Trophy is a state-level national football competition contested by the state associations and government institutions under...
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By Hazel Gandhi Four unrelated visuals from different parts of the world are being shared as Chennai Super King fans showing their support for the team ahead of the IPL final against Gujarat Titans. The match between CSK and GT was originally scheduled for Sunday, May 28. However, due to heavy rains at the venue in Ahmedabad, it has been shifted to the reserve day, May 29. If the rains persist, GT, who are currently leading the scoreboard, will automatically win the trophy. Amid this, some visuals purporting to show CSK supporters storming the streets and chanting the team's name in the Narend...
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By The Conversation Wendy Tzou , University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Damar Hamlin, a safety for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed on the field during a Monday night football game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Jan. 2, 2023. Medical staff gave Hamlin CPR and shocked him with a defibrillator, restarting his heart's normal rhythm. News outlets immediately began speculating that Hamlin may have suffered from commotio cordis – a potentially lethal stoppage of the heart caused by a strong impact to a person's chest. The next day, the Bills announced that Hamlin had indeed experienced "cardi...
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By Hazel Gandhi Several news outlets including NDTV, Hindustan Times, and the Free Press Journal published stories falsely claiming that a viral video shows Lionel Messi hugging his mother after Argentina's win at the FIFA World Cup finals. BOOM found that the woman in the video is not Messi's mother, Celia María Cuccittini, but the Argentina team's official cook - Antonia Farías. The video is also being shared onn Facebook with a caption claiming, "Messi hugs his mother❣️" Click here to view. Click here to view. Click here to view. Several Indian outlets including NDTV, Hindustan Times, and N...
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By Hazel Gandhi The video of a football match purported to be from FIFA 2022 is going viral online with claims that the match was paused for sometime when the azaan (Islamic call to prayer) started playing. BOOM found that the claim is false, and the actual incident took place more than four years ago in 2018. The FIFA 2022 World Cup commenced on 21 November. Recently, a clip has been going viral online that claims a match in the tournament was paused out of respect as soon as Azaan, a call of prayer for Muslims, started playing. The video is captioned on Facebook as, "Masha Allah fifa worldcu...
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By The Conversation Football has "The Catch," baseball has "The Shot Heard 'Round the World," and basketball has "The Block." For soccer, it is Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" – a sporting moment captured in time, the mere mention of which can conjure up strong emotions among supporters. Such is its legacy, that some 36 years after bouncing into the back of the net, the soccer ball involved was sold at auction on Nov. 16, 2022 for US$2.4 million. So why does this goal, which should not even have been a goal, carry so much significance? As an economist who studies sport, I've long believed that ...
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By BOOM Team The death toll in the stampede at Indonesia's Kanjuruhan Stadium has risen to 174, while 180 others have reportedly sustained injuries in the chaos that broke out in the East Java province on Saturday. The accident took place in the football stadium after supporters of the two rival teams clashed after the match. The accident is among the worst stadium accidents in the world. Here are the latest updates on the incident: What happened?A football match was being played between two arch-rival teams-- Arema FC and Persebaya. However, Arema FC, the home team lost to Persebaya following...
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By Sourit Sanyal The 2022 FIFA World Cup is set to take place in Qatar, making the peninsular Arabian country the first in the Middle East to host international football's apex tournament. The tournament will kick off on November 20 with the host Qatar taking on Ecuador at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor. With 52 days left for the mega event to commence, many kit manufacturers like Nike, Adidas and Puma have started unveiling the home and away jerseys that will be worn by players during the tournament. Hummel, the Danish kit manufacturer unveiled the jersey of Denmark's national football team a...
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By Sourit Sanyal The Russian football federation (FUR) was banned from participating in the qualifying draws for the EURO 2024, to be held in Germany, by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the apex body of European football. FUR was banned from participating in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying play-off draws as well. Russia was kept out of football's most coveted tournament, set to be held in Qatar from November 20, in light of its invasion of Ukraine. Along with this, Russian clubs have been prohibited from participating in international matches, including the UEFA Champion...
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By Archis Chowdhury An image showing three Indian football players walking barefoot in the football field during the 1948 London Olympics is being shared with the claim that their loss to France during the Olympics was due to the fact that India could not afford to buy their football players shoes to play with. The post is shared with the aim of taking a dig at the Gandhi-Nehru family, who helmed Indian politics post-Independence. BOOM found this claim to be false; looking through archives of news reports from the Olympics, along with more recent reports about India's first appearance in the O...
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