Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs will join Ronaldinho as a marquee player in the inaugural Premier Futsal League. Air Max 97 CR7 Portugal . Ex-Argentina and Chelsea striker Hernan Crespo, and the Pele of futsal, Falcao - a late replacement for the injured Deco - will also take part as star players when the inaugural six-team competition commences in India on July 15. Ex-Inter Milan and Lazio striker Hernan Crespo joined Chelsea in 2003 Giggs former team-mate Paul Scholes and ex-Real Madrid full-back Michel Salgado complete the marquee names for the league, which will be hosted in Chennai and Goa. We are proud to kick-start our inaugural edition as scheduled on July 15 here in Chennai, Premier Futsal co-founder Nithyashree Subban said. Paul Scholes (L) and Ryan Giggs played together at United for 20 years It was a strategic decision to host the league in just 2 cities - Chennai and Goa - and with 6 franchises. We have managed to secure signatures of players who are the legends of the game and will be seen playing in India in a few days.Former Barcelona and AC Milan forward Ronaldinho, 36, returned to his native Brazil to play for Fluminense last year after a year-long spell at Mexican side Querataro. Former Brazil star Ronaldinho won the Ballon DOr in 2005 Giggs, one of Uniteds greatest ever players, left the Red Devils at the beginning of this month after 29 illustrious years at the club. He won 13 Premier League titles with the Red Devils as a player before becoming a player-coach under David Moyes in 2013.When Moyes was sacked less than 12 months later, the Welshman was made interim manager until the appointment of Louis van Gaal, with Giggs acting as the Dutchmans assistant. Scholes had a brief spell as a youth coach at United Sky Sports News HQ reported last month that Giggs was keen to become a manager in his own right and the 42-year-old confirmed that it in an open letter to the fans a fortnight ago.During his first press conference as Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho said he would always welcome a Old Trafford return Old Trafford for Giggs. Also See: Guarding Uniteds spirit Mourinho arrival lifts Rooney West Ham sign United youngster Swansea sign Reid from United Soldes Nike Homme Air Max 270 Flyknit Noir/Blanche/Vert Fluorescent . -- Justin Verlander took a no-hit bid into the sixth inning and won his fourth straight decision, leading Detroit over the Kansas City Royals 9-4 Sunday and extending the Tigers winning streak to a season-high five games. Air Max 98 OG UK Homme: Blanche/Or . According to TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger, the Maple Leafs have trade offers on the table for the 26-year-old, but none have been deemed acceptable by the team. http://www.270airmax.fr/air-max-2019-pas-cher.html . You can watch all the action on TSN and TSN GO beginning at 8:30pm et/5:30pm pt. Minnesota dropped the first two tests of this best-of-seven set at Chicagos United Center and was outscored by a combined 9-3 margin in those setbacks. However, the Wild righted themselves at home by taking Game 3 by a 4-0 count before knotting the series at two games apiece with Fridays 4-2 triumph at Xcel Energy Center.Having served the first game of his suspension in Game 3 of the Blackhawks-Blues series, Seabrook will miss only two more if the series should end in five games, and regardless, thats all he will miss according to the NHLs handling of this affair. But my amendment will force him to miss one or two more games if the series goes that long and if Backes does not return. You see, Im interested in fairness, and theres no fairness if theres a discrepancy between the number of games Seabrook misses and the number of games Backes is forced to sit out. In short, Seabrook should only return to the series if Backes does. If Seabrook comes back and Backes doesnt, imagine the outcry if Seabrook scores the winning goal to eliminate the Blues. I dont want to see that. I dont think the NHL does either, but given the chance to prevent that scenario, the NHL took a pass. On fairness. Now, I will save both of us time by asking you to go to the top, insert the names of Matt Cooke and Tyson Barrie where Seabrook and Backes were mentioned, and read this again. Same deal—Cooke should not return to the Minnnesota-Colorado series unless Barrie does, and we know Barrie wont, due to an MCL injury, so Cooke is either finished for the season or waiting to play St. Louis or Chicago. No need for a hearing, NHL. ------- Heres item two - the 2015 NHL entry draft, to be known as the Conor McDavid-Jack Eichel sweepstakes. McDavid and Eichel are two so-called "franchise-changers". The NHL teams that land them wont just be better, they may succeed for many years to come solely because of them. So there will be more interest than normal in the draft lottery that will identify the teams with 2015s first and second picks, and more interest than normal, so the theory of "tanking" goes, in playing just badly enough to secure the most favourable lottery odds next year.Heres where I come in. I will create more interest than ever in the draft lottery and, at the same time, end all thought and any mention of tanking. I will do that by giving all 14 non-playoff teams an equal shot at the first draft pick in 2015. Fans of each of those 14 teams will hang on every second of the draft lottery. Itll be similar to, but better than, the draw that sent Sidney Crosby to Pittsburgh. It was packed with suspense, but it had odds attached that happened to favour the Penguins, so there wasnt the wide-open nature of competition and interest that pure luck creates. However, the biggest reason for eliminating draft lottery odds is to wipe out any incentive to gain a draft advantage on the ice, and to eliminnate all the talk that goes with it. Air Max 270 Pas Cher. As the imaginary leader of the NHL, Im furious whenever I hear a team advised to think about winning a draft by losing a game. The NHL includes just one guarantee when it sells a ticket - it guarantees a contest that will see two teams trying their best to win. If there is any doubt that the customer is receiving that guarantee, the doubt must be removed. A "luck of the draw" draft order will do that. And before you, or the NHL complains that the worst teams should be the ones that land McDavid and Eichel, realize two things - the NHL could make it happen that way by eliminating the lottery, and chooses not to do so, and the NHLs current system allows for the possibility that its best non-playoff team will make the first draft selection. Its just unwilling to make that a stronger possibility. Im not. --------- Now its time to open the rule book and apply some common sense to it. The Tampa Bay Lightning will be complaining all the way to next season about a Ryan Callahan goal against Montreal that didnt count because…..well, because the referee thought it shouldnt count. I cant explain it better than that. When Alex Killorn was trying to put the puck past Carey Price and ended up in the net himself, all sorts of confusion ensued. The refs arms waved, play continued as Killorn extricated himself and tried to avoid Price and P.K. Subban, even as they didnt seem to be trying to avoid him, and Callahan eventually scored…..sorry…put the puck in the net. Then the refs arms waved again, and the goal was disallowed. My new rule wouldnt have allowed the Lightning to be tied with Montreal on the scoreboard, but it would have prevented all the controversy. The best new rules are simple ones. In this case, when Killorn plunged into the net, regardless of whether he did that on his own, was pushed, or did so because of contact with Price, the whistle should have blown to halt the play. Nothing good ever follows a net crash like the one involving Killorn. If he stays there, no goal can be scored. If he tries to get out, he can get mugged, or at least interfered with, and theres every chance hell be bothering the goalie enough to affect things and make any refs ruling subject to criticism. Just as the whistle blows if the puck enters the net, so should it blow if a player does. Thats all the time I have to run the NHL today. If Ive made any sense, pass it on. And if I havent, Ill try again next time. (English indie band - Im declaring this the official anthem of "Pass It On") ' ' '