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AT ONE stage Gustavo Oberman was rated ahead of Lionel Messi.

He even kept the now seven-time Ballon d'Or winner out of Argentina's line up in the opening match of the U20 World Cup in 2005.

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A then 18-year-old Messi broke into the team for the next match, scored in every knockout game and was named Player of the Tournament.

Oberman also kept Sergio Aguero out of the starting XI as he and Messi guided Argentina to victory, lifting the trophy together.

But the forward, now 37, went on to be a journeyman whilst his team-mates shone in the most-elite competitions in the world.

And he has recently been let go by Dock Sud, a team in the fourth tier of theArgentine football league.

Stints in the top division with Argentinos Juniors and River Plate early on is his career showed promise.

But a period in Spain saw his career falter while at the same time Messi started tearing it up for Barcelona in LaLiga.

Time in Romania, Chile and India eventually led Oberman back to Buenos Aires with Dock Sud.

But after four years with the side, the attacking midfielder has seen his contract terminated.

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He told AS: The decision not to continue was made by the coach, he told me that he was not going to take me into account.

"I wanted to continue until the end of the year and finish my time at theDockon the field, but there was no possibility.

"I feel sad, I think that after what we experienced at the club, I deserved another ending.

"But the reality is that what we have achieved in these years will remain forever."

Meanwhile, Messi is preparing to captain the national team for his fifth World Cup with Argentina in Qatar this winter.

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The Indian Womens Table Tennis team has landed in another controversy, this time in the middle of their 2022 Commonwealth Games campaign. The Indian team has been flagged for sitting with the mens team coach during their match against Malaysia. The womens team designated coach Anindita Chakraborty was not in the sidelines to aid the team. Instead, S Raman sat on the courtside during the Quarterfinal match against Malaysia.

Raman, who happens to be the personal coach of male player G Sathiyan, was seen coaching Reeth Rishya as the quarterfinal went down to the wire. This incident has not sat well with S D Mudgil, a member of the Committee of Administrators running the suspended Table Tennis Federation of India. Mudgil has expressed displeasure and has said that he will take it up with the team. This should not have happened, womens coach should have been guiding the players in the match. I will take this up with the team, said S D Mudgil.

Mudgil, who himself was supposed to be with the team in Birmingham has stayed back in India to accommodate the players request for sports psychologist Gayatri Vartak, who joined the squad on Monday.

It was an off day: S Raman

Talking about the game, defending champions India were stunned by a little-known Malaysian side in their quarterfinals match. Despite a huge difference between the two sides, Malaysia defeated India 3-2. Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula lost their singles match to give Malaysian an edge. Meanwhile, S Raman defended the team saying it was an off day and the opponents combination proved too much for the Indian side.

It was very close. Combinations were totally different for us. A defensive player, a left hander and right hander mix up was little challenging for us. The girls fought hard and it was an off day, said Raman after the unexpected result.

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PSGare in the middle of making wholesale changes for next season. The Parisian side have had seasons full of doubt and uncertainty and they have failed to win the Champions League. They want to make a step forward this summer.

Therefore, the Sheikh has started with changing the sporting director. Luis Campos is the new man in charge. On the bench, there will also be change and Mauricio Pochettino is now history. Veteran coach Christophe Galtier will take over.

However, these reforms, will also affect the players. And not only players in general, but the senior players in the dressing room.

In recent days, there was news that the Frenchman does not want Neymar to stay at the club. The injuries and lack of focus, as well as the huge salary he receives, has reportedly led to this ending.

With Mbappe as their leader after his renewal, 'El Partidazo de COPE' mentionedanother player who was thought to be untouchable. Leo Messi, who has struggled to adapt to life in Paris. However, the Parisian club's offices know that getting rid of these two footballers will be easy or cheap.

PSG's plan is to get rid of global stars and focussing on building a good team instead.

Another area to improve is the defence. With two world class footballers in the Argentine and the Brazilian, the defence has got significantly worse. This is something that they want to change from now on and it ended up taking its toll in the knockout game against Real Madrid.

A new strategy of development and growth which PSG have foir this season. Will the Parisian side change from being a squad full of stars to a team which plays well? This story has only just begun.

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The Lionesses pose with their third place winners medals after returning from the 2015 World Cup (Steve Parsons/PA) (PA Archive)

England Women reached a World Cup semi-final for the first time on this day in 2015 after holding on to beat tournament hosts Canada 2-1 in Vancouver.

Early first-half goals from Jodie Taylor and Lucy Bronze set the Lionesses up for a historic win, but they were forced to dig deep after Christine Sinclair pulled one back for Canada just before half-time.

It was the first time a senior England side men or women had reached the World Cups last four since 1990.

The Lionesses had won a World Cup knockout game for the first time by defeating Norway 2-1 in the round of 16 and followed it up against the Canadians in front of a crowd of 54,027 at BC Place.

Taylor gave England an 11th-minute lead when she pounced on Canada skipper Lauren Sesselmanns slip and raced on to drill a low angled finish into the bottom corner.

The Lionesses extended their lead three minutes later. Fara Williams diagonal free-kick into the penalty area picked out Bronze and the full-backs header bounced down over the goal-line after hitting the crossbar.

Canada lifted the home support by reducing the deficit three minutes before the interval when England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley failed to hold on to Ashley Lawrences cross and Sinclair turned home the rebound.

Taylor was denied a second goal after the restart as her goal-bound curling effort forced a brilliant save from Canada goalkeeper Erin McLeod.

Englands World Cup dream was halted in agonising fashion in their semi-final however, as defender Laura Bassetts stoppage-time own goal clinched a 2-1 win for Japan, who went on to lose 5-2 to the USA in the final.

The Lionesses secured a third-place finish after beating fellow semi-final losers Germany 1-0 after extra time in their play-off, thanks to Williams 108th-minute penalty.

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Indian cricket has been on the rise since the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2008. The IPL is a true cricketing spectacle for fans all around the globe and has blessed the Indian National Cricket Team with the finest of cricketers for over a decade, including Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, and Ravindra Jadeja, to name a few. Indian cricket team has gone from strength to strength over the years, and more than ever now, when there is enough in the tank to send two sets of players to different parts of the world to compete in different formats. It truly is incredible the amount of talent the country is producing. Currently, the Indian team is competing in the shortest form of the game, Twenty20 against Ireland, whereas another star-studded squad is gearing up to face England in a rescheduled Test match beginning on July 1. However, India has failed to win any major ICC tournament since 2013, when they defeated England in their backyard to lift the ICC Champions Trophy.

Going into every tournament with arguably the strongest squad and as favourites, India has still failed to capitalise on it. What do we think the reason behind this is? Is it over-reliance on some players, is it captaincy, is it the pressure of winning a major tournament, is it over-exhaustion, or is it the management failing to realise their best XI on the given day due to the amount of talent at their disposal?

There is no doubt that over-exhaustion is a part of whatever the reason is, the team is failing to perform at the highest level. Team India plays the maximum number of fixtures in a calendar year solely because they generate the most revenue for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the International Cricket Council (ICC). In 2021, as per various reports, BCCI made a whopping Rs 3730 crores in the Covid era, which is a clear indication that the cricketing boards are ready to exploit the players to generate more profit, much like the European Super League just that this is going on in cricket for several years now. It has become even more challenging in recent years due to the bio-bubble where players are isolated from their families and the outside world for an extended period until the event concludes or they are eliminated.

The BCCI will continue to receive staggering sums of money from sponsors and broadcasters, so the number of fixtures the team plays is unlikely to go down soon. Despite this, do we think the team management is missing a trick in picking their best XI for a game?

More often than not, it has been a case of one bad match in ICC events for the team. It boils down to the brilliance of former skipper Virat Kohli and current captain Rohit Sharma in white-ball cricket. The pair has been exceptional, but if India loses a few quick wickets in a knockout game all of a sudden, the middle order is exposed and cannot deal with that pressure as this is an unfamiliar situation for them. Team India needs to have a plan B as it is clear that the team lacks a clear idea whenever they lose quick wickets at the top of the order.

Also, you cannot go into a world cup not knowing who your number four batter is (2019 50-over world cup) or neglect your most successful bowler in T20 world cups like India did with Ravi Ashwin in the last edition of the T20 world cup. The team failed to read the pitches in the UAE despite playing two back-to-back IPL in these conditions. There were several other critical factors if we look back at the selections made in the last years T20 world cup, be it the exclusion of Yuzvendra Chahal or overlooking an in-form Deepak Chahar for not a fully fit Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

Leg spinners like Wanindu Hasaranga, Adam Zampa, Adil Rashid and Ish Sodhi dominated the tournament, and an Indian bowling attack without Chahal lacked the X-factor. This is just one example from the recent past where the management failed to realize their best XI and paid the price for it with an early elimination from the tournament. Is this a clear-cut case of too much talent that has been thrown at the selectors and the management because of the IPL, or are we looking beyond the obvious, and this has just been a case of over-exhaustion?

The wait for Indian cricket fans has been agonizingly long, but with a new era on the rise with Rahul Dravid and Rohit Sharma at the helm, it will be interesting to see what tricks team India pull out to end their nine-year drought to lift an ICC trophy when they take part in the latest edition of the T20 world cup later this year in Australia.

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