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Here are all the important thing updates from December 17, Sunday:

AIFF President’s daring World Cup plan

The All India Football Federation (AIFF) is contemplating an audacious plan to host a couple of matches of the 2034 FIFA World Cup, set to be held in Saudi Arabia, based on a PTI report.

The report claims an inner round had AIFF President, Kalyan Chaubey, planning for such a state of affairs. “The president informed the house that India should think or plan to work towards being a co-host for the World Cup in 2034,” the draft minutes of the AIFF Executive Committee held on November 9 mentioned.

However, there may be the not-so-small stumbling block of FIFA laws that dictate that co-hosts can’t be added to a bid after approval, solely earlier than. However, with certain procedures being side-stepped leading to Saudi Arabia being the only bidder for the 2034 World Cup, there may nonetheless be hope that India may host a couple of of the 104 matches of the 48-team World Cup in 2034.

ISL: Odisha romp to win over bottom-placed Hyderabad

Odisha FC earned a cushty 3-0 win over Hyderabad FC on the Kalinga Stadium, courtesy a brace from Roy Krishna and a header from Mourtada Fall.

Hyderabad had the higher of the possibilities within the opening half-hour with Petteri Pennanen and Mohammad Yasir stinging the palms of Amrinder Singh. However, it was Odisha who opened the scoring within the thirty fifth minute, after Amey Ranawade was put by way of on the best into the field and squared the ball for Krishna, who bobbled the ball into the web from shut vary. The house facet’s lead was quickly doubled within the fortieth minute as Fall headed in Ahmed Jahouh’s set-piece after being set-up by Carlos Delgado’s header again throughout objective.

Hyderabad laboured to get again into the sport, however have been unable to style clear-cut probabilities. Odisha may have scored one other because the guests pushed for a objective, however the likes of Isak Vanlalruatfela and Jerry Mawihmingthanga spurned presentable alternatives. However, Krishna made the outcome sure in harm time, with a low drive into the underside nook to make it 3-0. The outcome pushed Sergio Lobera’s males as much as fourth, whereas Hyderabad stay caught to the underside of the desk.

Badminton replace: Indian winners at Odisha Masters

There have been a two house champions on the Odisha Masters BWF Super 100 that ended in the present day.

Sathish Kumar Karunakaran received his first Super 100 title whereas Tanisha Crasto, enjoying two finals, one the blended doubles with Dhruv Kapila and completed runner up within the ladies’s doubles with Ashwini Ponnappa.

The 22-year-old Sathish, who received males’s singles title at India International and had a runner-up end at Maldives International this season, beat Ayush Shetty, who was promoted from reserves, 21-18, 19-21, 21-14 in the one all-Indian closing.

In the primary closing of the day, Tanisha and Dhruv notched thrilling three-game win over Singapore’s Hee Yong Kai Terry and Tan Wei Han Jessica. Tanisha, 20, and 23-year-old got here from a recreation all the way down to win 17-21, 21-19, 23-21 in an hour and 14 minutes.

Later, Tanisha and Aswini went down within the ladies’s doubles closing, every week after successful the Guwahati Masters title. The third seeds misplaced to Indonesia’s Meilysa Trias Puspitasari and Rachel Allessya Rose 21-14, 21-17.

In the boys’s doubles, Krishna Prasad Garaga and Sai Pratheek Ok misplaced within the closing to Chinese Taipei seventh seeds Lin Bing-Wei and Su Ching Heng 22-20, 18-21, 17-21.

The ladies’s singles title was received by Japan’s former world champion Nozomi Okuhara.

What occurred yesterday?

• India misplaced 1-3 to Spain within the third-place playoff of the FIH Junior Men’s Hockey World Cup, which was received by Germany.

• Bengaluru FC beat Jamshedpur FC 1-0 of their first match underneath new head coach Gerard Zaragoza, whereas Mumbai City FC have been held to a 0-0 draw at house by East Bengal.

• Puneri Paltan scored a shocking 49-19 win over desk topper Bengal Warriors within the PKL, whereas Telugu Titans winless begin to the season continued with a 40-51 loss to Dabang Delhi Ok.C.

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