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About Paul Williams
Paul Williams is an Adelaide-based football writer who has reported on the comings and goings of Asian football for the past decade. Having covered the past two Asian Cups, he writes regularly about the J.League for Optus Sport in Australia, while he also regularly contributes to Arab News. Further, he has previously been published by outlets such as FOX Sports Asia, Al Jazeera English, FourFourTwo, and appeared on numerous TV and radio shows to discuss Asian football.
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INTERVIEWS

The Chicken Korma that changed Ashleigh Plumptre’s life

August 6, 2024 Paul Williams

Ashleigh Plumptre had just arrived back home in Leicester from a holiday in the USA, visiting family and friends in Los Angeles, where she had previously studied at the University of Southern California, and enjoying […]

AUSTRALIA

Johnson: Second division “will exist” in Australia

July 17, 2024 Paul Williams

Football Australia CEO, James Johnson, has moved to allay fears the proposed National Second Division may not get off the ground, boldly declaring the competition “will exist” ahead of its planned launch in 2025. The […]

WOMEN'S FOOTBALL

How Banaat FC is changing the face of women’s football in the UAE

June 14, 2024 Paul Williams

In the United Arab Emirates, August 28 is Emirati Women’s Day, a chance to celebrate the increasingly significant role women are playing in Emirati society. For Budreya Faisal, a pioneering business and football marketing executive […]

AUSTRALIA

Matildas mania to boost Women’s Asian Cup as Asia enters a new era

June 3, 2024 Paul Williams

The FIFA Women’s World Cup was almost a year ago, but walking the streets of Adelaide last week you wouldn’t know it – you’d swear it was still in full swing. Green and gold banners […]

CHINA

China begin to believe again under Milicic

June 1, 2024 Paul Williams

The last time China walked off a pitch in Adelaide, they did so with their heads slumped low, almost too embarrassed to look up and look people in the eye. The players, the ones that […]

AFC ASIAN CUP

Are we witnessing the awakening of Asia’s sleeping giant?

April 22, 2024 Paul Williams

The premise of this article has been written periodically for the past few decades, that’s how long Indonesia has been talked about as the sleeping giant of Asian football. The nation, an archipelago consisting of […]

AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Crespo plots revenge on Al Hilal

April 16, 2024 Paul Williams

As arguably the biggest dog in Asia, there is certainly no shame in losing to Al Hilal. Given they’ve lost just one of their past 15 matches on the continent, it’s a reality that faces […]

FEATURES

SPECIAL FEATURE: The power ‘destroying’ Korean football

March 22, 2024 Paul Williams

Korea Republic returned to the field this week for the first time since their ignominious exit from the AFC Asian Cup and the messy fallout that has followed, which not only saw Jurgen Klinsmann lose […]

AFC ASIAN CUP

Afif and Al-Taamari in final battle for supremacy

February 9, 2024 Paul Williams

When Qatar and Jordan played in a pre-Asian Cup friendly at the start of January – a game Jordan won 2-1 – no one expected that the next time the two team’s would meet would […]

AFC ASIAN CUP

Style or substance? Australia confronts its identity crisis

February 2, 2024 Paul Williams

Not for the first time Australia finds itself battling a crisis of identity; caught between who it is and who it wants to be. On face value Australia has been close to the best performing […]

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