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Tosu the toast of the J.League
A couple of weeks into the start of the new J.League season it’s a familiar name at the top of the standings – defending champions Kawasaki have reeled off four wins from as many matches […]
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Pakhtakor the hunted as Uzbek Super League kicks off
The sight of Pakhtakor lifting yet another piece of silverware this past weekend, which has become increasingly commonplace in Uzbek football of late, was indeed a familiar one. At the turn of a new domestic […]
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Top five young Central Asian players to watch in 2021
Despite being touted by some as a future Asian football hotspot, Central Asian football is typically not given a huge amount of coverage. Things are starting to steadily change, however. Over the past decade Central […]
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Qatar takes the lead in Asia, but now need to deliver where it matters
Fresh from saving this year’s domestic continental season in Asia, Qatar go one step further this week, with a parting gift to a year of misery in international football. Over a year has passed since […]
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Lights go out for Port FC
I was uncharacteristically early to Port’s match against Muangthong United this year. Straddled with the gratuitous and bothersome red tape of the ‘new normal,’ I needed to get in early to make sure I didn’t […]
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Filipino football’s fight for relevancy
It may be very difficult to imagine it now, but there was actually a time when Filipinos came out in numbers to watch a domestic league football match in Manila. Rival sets of fans would […]
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Luqman Hakim: The quest for Malaysia’s next superstar
Generational Talent. It’s a term that, in an ideal world, should not be thrown around. But in Malaysia, cries of the next superstar get pretty deafening at times and Luqman Hakim Shamsudin is the latest […]
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Home comforts – is history repeating?
Remember when Omar Abdulrahman burst onto the scene at London 2012, dazzling football pundits the world over and winning an army of admirers in the process? There was such hope that Abdulrahman would become a […]
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Muangthong United’s risky ‘rebuild’
Clubs across the world are grappling with player pay cuts to cope with the financial difficulties enforced by COVID-19. However, for Thai League giants Muangthong United, the crisis has added to deep financial problems already […]
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Tajikistan succumbs to COVID-19
This week’s major news story in Asian football features the long awaited return of the K League, whilst those in Europe are left salivating by the news of the German Budnesliga’s resumption by the middle […]