Saitama Stadium has seen some magical AFC Champions League moments, from Urawa Reds’ historic title in 2007 to their repeat performance a decade later, and Al Hilal’s drought-breaking success in 2019. It is perhaps the […]
When Arif Aiman’s low-cross across the box was turned into his own net by Ulsan Hyundai defender Park Yong-woo, Johor Darul Ta’zim’s palatial Sultan Ibrahim Stadium almost burst at the seems. As fans spontaneously erupted […]
You could almost describe Cambodia’s Thierry Chantha Bin as a Keisuke Honda ‘fan boy’, such was his admiration for the Japanese superstar, especially during his heyday with CSKA Moscow and AC Milan. When the 98-time […]
Like many young children growing up in cricket-mad Pakistan, Jahangir Khan wanted to be just like superstar cricketer Shahid Afridi. Born in Attock, a city of just 146,000 in a country of 243 million, Khan […]
On a typically balmy summer’s evening at Sydney’s cavernous Olympic Stadium for the quarter final of the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, a collective gasp could be heard echoing around the barely quarter-filled stadium. It was […]
Makoto Hasebe, European champion. It has a nice ring to it and is just reward for a stellar career that perhaps only now will get the recognition it deserves. Japan has produced some tremendous footballers […]
As it turns out I, along with the 10,000 other fans at Coopers Stadium yesterday, was one of the lucky ones. Not because we saw another big-time display from fringe Socceroo Craig Goodwin, who chalked […]
After an historic and intriguing start to the west zone of AFC Champions League over the past week, it’s time for clubs in the east to start their campaigns and the storylines look just as […]
The press release that dropped from the Asian Football Confederation last Wednesday evening seemed harmless enough. The formation of another Task Force – doesn’t football love a Task Force – to examine ways, to quote […]
Saudi Arabia stamped their qualification for Qatar 2022 with a display against Australia at Jeddah’s King Abdullah Sports City Stadium that was the perfect encapsulation of modern Saudi football. They were disciplined and aggressive. They […]
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