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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 multiple FIFA World Cups, 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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