Kindness and real sportsmanship shown by Germany defender

The defender of Germany team Mats Hummels said that even though that they are in the lead by 5-0 they should not humiliate the host country. This is a perfect example of true sportsmanship that is becoming a rare trait among the new comers of this generation’s sports men and woman.

 For more info visit this link

http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/mats-hummels-reveals-germany-pledged-not-to-humiliate-brazil-once-up-50/story-fnkjl6g2-1226984120163

Highlight: Argentina Vs Holland

The game of Argentina vs Holland turned out to be one of the most boring 90 minutes of this season of the World cup. This is because the game was a total stand still none of their key player could do anything against each other. They had to go to penalty shootout

 

Recap: Who is going to take the cup

The finals are here who is going to take the world cup this. This year world cup is special because both teams have taken the world cup for their country before. Who is going to be this year’s champion and bring home the glory as well as the world cup?

Highlights on the world cup

The world cup is about to come to an end. Let us reminisce on some of the highlight that came from the world this year. One of the latest and that is always talked about is how Germany wrecked and raped as well as destroyed Brazil in their match against each other.   

Mo Farah out of Glasgow Diamond League

31-year-old world champion and double Olympic winner Mo Farah has pulled out his participation in this weekend's Diamond League event in Glasgow because of his illness.

"Sorry to everyone in Scotland but I won't be able to make it there this week" said Farah.

"I hope to resume training in the next few days and aim to run in the London Anniversary Games on 20 July and then the Commonwealth Games the following week."

He was admitted to the hospital in the US with abdominal pains last week. Farah, who is now having further tests in the UK this week due to the race over two miles in Hampden Park.

As he said, he remains confident of being fit enough to join the Glasgow Commonwealth Games later this month and confirms that in June, he would compete for England for both the 5,000m and 10,000m at Glasgow 2014

Sainsbury's Glasgow Grand Prix
Venue: Hampden Park
Date: 11-12 July

reference: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/athletics/28217394

BRAZIL BRUTALLY EMBRACE LOSS TO GERMANY IN WC2014

9^th July 2014, World Cup 2014 semi finals Brazil VS Germany had became the top list most shocking match in world cup history. World cup 2014 been held in Brazil where they are famous with samba football type even they had a very strong team from goalkeeper to striker. But surprisingly they brutally embracement loss to Germany 1-7 goal in semi final match in their home country and make their fan crying and upset. We can’t expect what we had expected and in football nothing is impossible even Brazil is the strongest team in world cup 2014 brutally lost. BYE!    :D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;L ;L ;L ;L

Reference: https://www.google.com.my/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=zOy8U7qTBYK_uATQ9ICYDw#q=brazil+vs+germany+2014+world+cup

Aberdeen native Richie Ramsay struggling with shoulder injury

Home hope Richie Ramsay will give himself as long as possible to prove his fitness for the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open, which gets under way on Thursday.

Richie Ramsay struggling with a shoulder injury

31-year-old Ramsay was force to withdraw after suffering a shoulder injury in the second round of the French Open last week, but it is a must for him to play in his national open at Royal Aberdeen. "If it was any other event I would be home by now," said Ramsay.

"There would be not even a question of not teeing up. I know that i have a slight home advantage and this is the week to really use it." he added. It is the biggest tournament for Scottish players outside of probably the Open so he will have no chance to miss it.

reference: http://www1.skysports.com/golf/news/12040/9376311/scottish-open-aberdeen-native-richie-ramsay-struggling-with-shoulder-injury

Baton goes to Wei Feng and Daren to keep Commonwealth gold

Lee Chong Wei has challenged Chong Wei Feng and Liew Daren to keep Malaysia’s good tradition in the men’s singles event in the Commonwealth Games.

“We have done well in the Commonwealth Games and I hope that Wei Feng and Daren will carry on the tradition. They are the next best singles players in the national team and I have confidence in them,” said Chong Wei.  

“They will face challenges from India, England and Singapore. I have seen improvements in Wei Feng and Daren at the Thomas Cup Finals (in May) and they can deliver the goods.”

refrrence:http://www.thestar.com.my/Sport/Badminton/2014/07/07/Chong-Wei-challenge-others/

Lai Kwan aiming to repeat final feat in Glasgow

Chui Lai Kwan is the first Malaysian woman to make the final for a Commonwealth Games swimming event.

Lai Kwan admitted that she was shocked to be given a chance to compete in her third straight Games.“Although I’m no longer with the national set-up, they (Amateur Swimming Union of Malaysia) are still willing to send me. So I’m really thankful and I hope to put up a good show.

“I did my season’s best of 26.11 (50m freestyle) and 57.96 (100m freestyle) at the Malaysian Open in May. It has been very encouraging,” said Lai Kwan, who still holds three national records – 26.02 (50m freestyle), 57.55 (100m freestyle) and 1:03.91 (100m backstroke).

refrence:http://www.thestar.com.my/Sport/Swimming/2014/07/08/Lai-Kwan-aiming-to-repeat-final-feat-in-Glasgow/

ULTIMATE FRISSBEE

ULTIMATE FRISBEE

Ultimate Frisbee is fun sport that now a day rises up in south East Asia region where before this no one knows what Frisbee is. It played between two team of seven players on a large rectangular pitch. It was a simple game where you only can throw vertically, horizontally and ambidextrously over the spoiling defenders head, beneath his blocking arm , spinning, skimming hovering before our opponent can take or catch our Frisbee disc.   Now women also can play this game mixed with man. Please stay and read our update next week for who interested to learn about Frisbee..byeeeeee!

reference:
http://www.whatisultimate.com/what/what_game_en.html

RICHEST SPORT STAR IN THE WORLD

WHO IS THE RICHEST SPORT STAR IN THE WORLD?

Everyone would be like to know who is the richest sport star in the world. It been 4 years he manage to stay to be the richest sport star in the world and he defeat David Beckham in the second place. This man had won 14 major golf championships and 65 PGA tour events. In 2000 he had signed 5 years  for $105 million contract with Nike, which at the time was the largest endorsement deal ever made by an athlete.  The athlete I talk about is  Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods. 

REFERENCE:https://betting.betfair.com/betting/oddly-enough/the-10-richest-sports-stars-in-the-world-and-what-they-spend-their-money-on-131113-629.html

MOST POPULAR IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!

 Most popular” could mean “most watched,” “most played,” or “most revenue-generating” Sports. Here is the answer what you looking for. The answer is SOCCER,.

 Soccer

What is soccer? Who doesn't know what soccer is maybe he not from this earth. Soccer is the most popular sport been watched and played in the world. Everyone in this world watched even play this sport it like 3.3-3.5 billion fans all around the world. Commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world’s most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by using any part of the body besides the arms and hands to get the football into the opposing goal. The goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while it is in play and then only in their penalty area.

Reference://sporteology.com/top-10-popular-sports-world/

Novak Djokovic beats Roger Federer to win 2014 Wimbledon title

Novak Djokovic brought down Roger Federer’s hopes of a 

record eight Wimbledon title and this ends his thrilling five-set victory. After letting a championship point slip in the 

fourth set, Roger Federer won Wimbledon’s first five set 

final since 2009.

Djokovic will now reclaim the number one ranking from Rafael Nadal, after losing 

his previous three major finals.

“This is the best tournament in the world and the one I 

always wanted to win so to be able to compete at such a 

high level I am so grateful.” said Djokovic.

The Swiss was willed on by much of the 15,000-strong 

crowd throughout the final, with chants of “Roger! Roger!” 

ringing around Centre Court when he reeled off five 

successive games from 5-2 down in the fourth set.

But Djokovic recovered his nerve to fend off break points in 

the decider and clinch a dramatic win after three hours and 

56 minutes, before kneeling on the turf and eating some 

grass - just as he had done after winning in 2011.

He then headed into the stands to celebrate with his team, 

including three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker, 

brought in by Djokovic at the start of the year to help end his run of 18 months without a major win.

Novak Djokovic praises Roger Federer for a ‘great fight’

Match Stats

The Top 5 Social Networking Superstars Of FIFA World Cup 2014

Before this huge international event is being kicked-off on June 12, the World Cup had produced over 19 million social buzz all over the world. It is predicted that the World Cup this year will be the most mentioned topic than any other sports event such as the Super Bowl 2014. These predictions were calculated by Adobe's Digital Index, which gets data from social impressions such as Facebook, Youtube, Dailymotion, Google+ and other blogs.

As we know the World Cup are held in the "Country of Soccer", Brazil, which has more than 86 active users on Facebook. The amount of people twitting about this event in their own country had made it a record-breaking social media.

The most mentioned subject in the game is undoubtedly, the players. Here are the list of the Top 5 Players that have been making impacts on social media during the World Cup 2014.

Christiano Ronaldo

Facebook: 85 mil

Instagram: 5.5 mil

Twitter: 26.9 mil

TOTAL: 117.4 mil

Lionel Messi

Facebook: 58 mil

Instagram: 3.4 mil

Twitter: 1.12 mil

TOTAL: 62.52 mil

Neymar

Facebook: 25 mil

Instagram: 6 mil

Twitter: 11.2 mil

TOTAL: 42.2 mil

Wayne Rooney

Facebook: 21 mil

Instagram: 548,000

Twitter: 8.96 mil

TOTAL: 30.51 mil

Andres Iniesta

Facebook: 20 mil

Instagram: 809,000

Twitter: 8.8 mil

TOTAL: 29.61 mil

reference: http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaldialogue/2014/06/12/world-cup-set-to-be-the-most-social-sporting-event-ever/

Lewis Hamilton sixth as Nico Rosberg takes British GP pole

Hamilton was fastest with seconds remaining but erred in aborting his final lap and slipped down the field

"These conditions are always tricky and the first run in Q3 sector three was down because it was wet, but in the last run the final sector was quicker because it has dried quite a bit."It was the fourth race in a row in which Hamilton has made a mistake of one kind or another in qualifying and the errors are costing him dearly in the championship.

Williams and Ferrari also badly misjudged the ever-changing weather conditions, missing the brief window of driest running in the first part of qualifying before rain returned.

reference: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/formula1/28176354
Author:Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer at Silverstone

Injured Chong Wei may also miss World Championships

World No 1 Lee Chong Wei have announced that he would not defend his men’s singles title at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games from July 23-Aug 3 after aggravating his thigh injury.

On Saturday, he went for the medical check and the injured is quite serious.In additional, the national chief coach Rashid Sidek  also confirm Chong Wei may take a longer time to recover.

He is tired and need a good rest for prepare for he the World Championship.The Badminton Association of Malaysia will make a decision whether find a replacement for Chong Wei

Reference:http://www.thestar.com.my/Sport/Badminton/2014/07/05/Injured-Chong-Wei-may-also-miss-World-Championship/
Author:Rajes Paul

Who is actually the biggest winner in this World Cup?

The answer is actually: Social Media

An interesting fact, there are already more posts about the World Cup before a ball has been kicked in Brazil than for the entire tournament in 2010, this shows that how powerful and important that the social media strategy has become these days.

Sponsors are eager to piggyback on the new-found power of their stars on Twitter. Ronaldo, part of Nike’s World Cup push, is the world’s most popular sportsman on Twitter with 26.5 million followers. When he tweeted Nike’s second World Cup ad, released on its YouTube page, it caused a surge in views that topped 70m in days. Nike eventually turned to TV to run a shorter version of the ad.

The combination of live TV and Twitter is proving to be an irresistible combination, with research from Nielsen showing that 60% of UK users tweet while viewing. “The consumption of TV remains huge, especially when you add social media as a supporting cast,”

reference:http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/08/social-media-winner-world-cup-advertising

Neymar Out Of World Cup?!?!?!?!?!?!

In 5/7/2014, the official FIFA WORLD CUP twitter had announced that the top star of Brazil, Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior had suffered a fractured vertebra and is out of the World Cup. This is a heavy impact on the Brazil Team in their road to champion. This twitter had gain 7.1k retweet and 2.5k favorite in just 51 minutes.

After Suarez, Is This Robben's Time?

We have recently posted about how Suarez gains all the attention in the twitter by his weird biting habits. But this time, Arjen Robben challenge Suarez by "diving" several times in the previous match with Mexico. The whole twitter post many interesting pictures and post about it, these are some of it that we found it amazing.

Robben On Holiday

Robben At the Olimpics

Robben's Imagination

Refence:http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jun/30/arjen-robben-dive-holland-mexico-world-cup-2014

Some Interesting Findings Of Sports Fans' Engagement With Social Media

Catalyst PR, recently acquired by sports marketing titan IMG, is the latest to take a stab at quantifying where sports fans hangout online and how they can be reached. 

 The results of Catalyst's survey provide some interesting food for thought.


Released this week, Catalyst's fourth annual fan engagement study surveyed 2,100 sports fans between the ages of 16 and 64. That group encompasses fans of the NFL, MLB, NBA, college football, college basketball and soccer.
A couple of thousand fans don't speak for everyone who follows sports, of course. But it's an interesting starting point for considering trends in the industry. Here are a few of Catalyst's most interesting findings:

• Nearly twice as many respondents use Facebook compared to Twitter, at 73% to 37%. But on game day, they check Twitter about 1.5 times as often as they do Facebook.
• Google+ and YouTube are on the rise among fans. When fans responded to a question about which platforms they use to "disseminate and acquire sports information," those two platforms showed the most year-over-year growth, at 94% and 35%, respectively.
• Seven out of 10 sports fans who Like or follow a brand online say they're open to sharing brand content, buying goods or engaging with social posts.

For more findings, check out the infographic below. Then let us know what you think in the comments.



Reference:http://mashable.com/2013/10/03/sports-fans-social-media/

Social Media Website Vine Faces Copyright issues with FIFA

The social media app Vine (under Twitter) came under fire recently as 6 second video loops of World Cup footage were (to no surprise) uploaded and shared on the app. Vine is now facing copyright and trademark threat as the uploaded footage are being taken down one by one.

In my opinion, this happening has shown that social media websites must be very careful with the way they are used and publicized in relation to major sport events. Sport events are usually protected by copyright so social media websites should issue certain warnings to its users to prevent this from occurring again.

The World Cup Vine profile picture

Reference: http://www.cnet.com/news/with-world-cup-takedowns-fifa-shows-social-media-paradox/

Luis Suarez and Twitter

Recently in the World Cup match between Uruguay and Italy, Uruguay striker Luis Suarez bit an opponent player on the shoulder. Twitter users took advantage of this situation by posting and sharing photo-shopped images of the player.

This looks like a funny and attractive way of spreading the news of the bite and I think it may even help Twitter bring more users into it. Here are some examples of the tweets:

Reference: https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/the-rio-report/jaws-3-best-suarez-memes-082432737.html

Impact on Twitter by the FIFA World Cup

Twitter on the other hand, had users tweet more than 16 million times during a game between Brazil and Chile. This smashes the record that was previously set by the Super Bowl in February. The official twitter account of the Fifa World Cup has already reached 2.62 million followers to this day and is increasing more and more rapidly.

These stats are of no surprise to me as Social Media is being used more and more as time goes by. People are more exposed to social media and as a result the users will increase rapidly.


Reference: http://wallstcheatsheet.com/sports/how-the-2014-world-cup-is-winning-social-media.html/?a=viewall

2014 FIFA World Cup Impact On Social Media

The FIFA World Cup has had a major impact on Social Media. Conversations related to the ongoing World Cup are countless on social media. According to the reference below, more than 1 billion interactions were made between 220 million users. The users commented, liked and tweeted things about the World Cup on Facebook and Twitter respectively.

I believe that the World Cup is a perfect opportunity for social media websites like Facebook and Twitter to seriously expand their number of users and traffic. The stats above are not surprising and I believe more records will be broken in the future as social media becomes easier and easier to access.

Reference : http://wallstcheatsheet.com/sports/how-the-2014-world-cup-is-winning-social-media.html/?a=viewall