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About Scott McIntyre
Scott McIntyre is a football journalist based in Tokyo who, in addition to reporting on the game, enjoys looking at the human element of the world’s most popular sport. He’s covered three FIFA World Cups, four AFC Asian Cups and numerous other club and national tournaments right across the planet and has travelled extensively across Asia for the past two decades, from Iraq and Palestine to Guam and Southeast Asia.
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Ugly Ducklings: Machida out to become cool kids of Tokyo in debut J1 season

February 23, 2024 Scott McIntyre

In most big cities across the world there are those suburbs on the fringes that kind of get lost to the more brash or tawdry districts, the places that tourists rarely visit and locals probably […]

JAPAN

Contenders & Pretenders: Ultimate 2024 J.League Preview

February 22, 2024 Scott McIntyre

With a new look, new format, a new stadium and a new team, Asia’s best domestic competition returns for a 32nd season this weekend as J.League action gets underway across nine Japanese cities. For the […]

AFC ASIAN CUP

Class shines through as Afif stars in Qatar’s renaissance

February 10, 2024 Scott McIntyre

Spare a thought for Aymen Hussein, the Iraq striker whose tournament ended a week and a half ago, as he sits, watches and no doubt hopes Akram Afif doesn’t get on the scoresheet in the […]

AFC ASIAN CUP

Cruz: Time for Iran to show winning mentality

February 6, 2024 Scott McIntyre

One of the men who helped to build and shape an Iran team that stands on the brink of a first AFC Asian Cup title since 1976 believes that they are now the favourites to […]

AFC ASIAN CUP

Pride & Passion: Jordan eye historic final berth

February 6, 2024 Scott McIntyre

One of the first times I visited Jordan, I was sat at a barbers’ shop on the edge of the Amman New Camp, a refugee camp known locally as ‘Wehdat,’ having had the place recommended […]

AFC ASIAN CUP

Stick or twist? Moriyasu faces Suzuki dilemma

February 3, 2024 Scott McIntyre

What started as a question mark heading into the tournament, grew firstly into a dilemma and is now a full-blown problem that could have a major say in how far Japan progress at the AFC […]

AFC ASIAN CUP

Korea’s unseen maestro ready to energise Taegeuk Warriors against Australia

February 2, 2024 Scott McIntyre

He’s Korea Republic’s pass master and he’s promised to bring the energy in the quarter-finals of the AFC Asian Cup when his weary nation faces Australia in Doha on Friday evening. Second only to Australia’s […]

AFC ASIAN CUP

Eccentric Šegrt propels Tajikistan from underdogs to ‘black’ horses

February 2, 2024 Scott McIntyre

Ahead of the biggest match in Tajikistan’s history, Petar Šegrt didn’t make the same mistake that he had ahead of what was previously the biggest match in their history. This time he marched straight into […]

AFC ASIAN CUP

Indonesia set blueprint for future with promising Asian Cup showing

January 29, 2024 Scott McIntyre

When it mattered most, suddenly Indonesia became the team they have always had the potential to be at continental level; technically sound, capable of sustained spells of possession where they shift the opposition from side-to-side, […]

AFC ASIAN CUP

The hidden gem helping history repeat for Iraq

January 20, 2024 Scott McIntyre

More than a decade and a half after they, against all odds, lifted the AFC Asian Cup trophy for the first time, could Iraq be set to repeat that feat? After an opening win against […]

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