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 […]
“I think about this game every day.” Clichés abound when you ask coaches about anything other than the next match in their schedule. ‘Just taking it one match at a time’ or ‘we’re only focused […]
So eager was Sandesh Jhingan to hit the ground running when he landed in Šibenik, a picturesque Croatian city on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, that despite the burning jet lag from a torturous […]
Brave is the person who stages an international tournament in the middle of the worst global pandemic in a century. With players, staff and officials flying in from all different parts of the world, amid […]
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