Can a game or a sport bring people together? Unite them as one? Making them forget their demography in their country, their caste, their community, their religion and of course their gender. If that happens can we call that a phenomena. Especially for a country like ours, Nepal, which is torn apart with all these factors.  We witnessed this phenomena, if I can call that a phenomena, in the modest yet beautiful cricket ground at the Tribhuwan University here in Nepal. Nepal was gearing to fight against the most talked about nation around the world media; Afghanistan. Stadium was packed beyond its capacity just like our micro buses during peak hours in the city. People, mostly students found places in top of the tress, roof of the nearby building and where ever a human eye could find an space inside the stadium people occupied it. The metal sheet that was erected around the compound as a fence was kicked down by the crowd to make space for them to sit on top of the compound. Crowd ...

"नेपाली खेलाडीमा आर्सेनल र टोटेनह्यामको चासो" यो खबर थियो नागरिक न्युजको । यो खबर को शीर्षक मात्र पढेर छाड्नु जस्तो खबर थिएन नत पढिसकेर पनि नेपालमा केही  हुँदैन  भनेर नाक खुम्च्याउनु पर्ने खबर नै थियो । नेपाली खेलाडीसँग संसारकै उत्कृष्ट क्लबको नाम जोडिएर आउनु एउटा आश्चर्यकै कुरा हो, एउटा सुखद आश्चार्य,मुटुमा सुसुप्त भै  बसेको राष्ट्रियता जुरुक्क उठ्ने किसिमको आश्चार्य । नेपाली फूटबल खेलाडी रोहित चन्द्को  सफलताको  यो खबर सुन्दा अस्ति भएको विश्वकप छनोटमा  इष्ट टिमोरबिरुद्ध नेपालको खेल हेर्न उर्लिएको भिड मात्र हैन समस्त फूटबल प्रेमी नेपाली जनता खुशी छन् । खबर पुरै पढिसकेपछी लाग्यो नेपाली फूटबलले पक्कै फड्को मारेछ । विश्वकप खेलिसकेको राष्ट्र उत्तर कोरियाबिरुद्धको उत्कृष्ट प्रदर्शन, र इष्ट टिमोर बिरुद्धको सान्दार बिजयले सबै फूटबल प्रेमिको मुटु गर्वले धक्क फुलेको छ । पक्कै पनि यो सफलताको पछाडि ब्रिटिश प्रशिक्षक ग्राहम रोबर्टसको सरहानिय योगदान छ । साथै खेलाडीहरुको मेहनत र आत्मविश्वास पनि, जसले नेपाल नेपाल भन्दै दशरथ रंगशालामा उर्लिएको भिडलाई निरास फर...

KU BiC तथा बायोटेक्नोलोजी ०७ ब्याच को आयोजना मा भएको “3rd All Nepal Biotechnology Football Tournament” को उपाधि ह्वाइट हाउस ले जितेको छ । केयु स्टेडियम, धुलिखेल काभ्रेमा शुक्रबार दिउँसो भएको अत्यन्तै रोमाञ्चक खेल मा ह्वाइट हाउस टिमले, केयु को स्टाफ टिमलाई ३-२ गोल ले हराउँदै, उपाधि माथि कब्जा जमाउन सफल भएको  हो । पहिलो हाफ मा शुन्य गोल को बराबरी मा रहेका टिमहरु  खेल को दोस्रो हाफ मा भने गोल गर्न सफल भएका थिए । ह्वाइटहाउस का लागि प्रवेश भट्टराई ले पहिलो गोल गरेका थिए भने केयु स्टाफ टिम का मनोज बडु ले, पाएको पेनल्टि को सदुपयोग गर्दै पहिलो गोल फर्काउँदै खेल बराबरी मा पुर्याएका थिए । खेल को ६३ औँ मिनेट मा ह्वाइट हाउस का केशव बहादुर कार्की ले गोल गर्दै टिमलाई १ गोल को अग्रता दिलाएका थिए । तर खेल मा ह्वाइट हाउस ले यो अग्रता धेरै बेर कायम गर्न सकेन । ६५ औँ मिनेट मा प्रज्वल बस्नेत ले केयु स्टाफ को लागि अर्को १ गोल गर्दै, खेल लाई बराबरी मा पुर्याए । खेल अवधिभर दुबै तर्फबाट २-२ गोल भएकोले खेल ‘एक्स्ट्रा’ समय मा लम्बियो । थपिएको समय को सदुपयोग गर्दै ह्वाइट हाउस का अम्बर बहादुर कार्की ...

The interesting thing about getting crazy over something is you put everything aside and focus on something that you love the most. The same is with me and my addiction towards football. And ever since the FIFA World Cup 2010 has began, I seem to care about nothing else than football. As an engineering student, I should be concentrating on my studies with assignments, internals and projects. Yet, I seem to give my priority to football. This is a strange feeling that I cannot ignore. Not only me, everyone is suffering from this disease. We call this “A Football Fever”. This is a disease that no doctor in the world can cure. And whether you are at work or studies or doing nothing at all, the craze of this World Cup will hunt you down and make you tune on your television and make you wave a flag. So unless you have been hiding in a cave somewhere you cannot ignore the fantasy and excitement that this FIFA World Cup 2010 brings. The World Cup fever has gripped lots of people in many wa...

Just having recovered from the serious leg injury, I decided to get back to college. So, at college an  interesting thing happened. (As a computer engineering student) My faculty teacher came over and started “Italy”. I had no idea on this. He continued “Italy will win world cup this year”. I had an easy reaction “Nope, it’s going to Brazil”. This was little awkward because the teacher never seemed to be interested in football. Then while heading towards my class room, I noticed the Kathmandu University seems to be colorful with international football jerseys. This was a drastic change to see for a guy who had been absent for whole week. Back at classroom, my classmates are coming to me just to talk about football . As I am known as a football freak here, this was an easy topic. At lab, I start facebooking. And what do I see? I see the statuses and profile pictures of my friends all covered with a common theme “Football”. Now, I came to a conclusion that we all are struck by a ...