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Right or wrong? Naturalisations spark debate in UAE

For long, the UAE resisted. Then, in January 2020, the UAE Football Association declared that two…

With the K League set the resume this weekend, not since 2002, when South Korea co-hosted…

Portuguese manager, Carlos Queiroz, gone. Belgian Marc Wilmots, sacked within six months. With the Iran national…

This Sunday, the Turkmen Yokary Liga will resume as the fifth active domestic league in world…

With a near total lockdown of football the world over due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak,…

Eighteen months ago, despite three and a half impressive seasons with Red Bull Salzburg in which…

It doesn’t take much for a young player to get hyped up in the social media…

When it was first announced that Iranian women could buy tickets for a football match, they…

The greatest ever Gulf Cup? Veteran watchers of this most regional, beloved tournament will tell you…

Picture this. It’s the semi final of the AFC Asian Cup and your nation is one…

In a reversal of a trend that existed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many…

The 2002 FIFA World Cup saw co-hosts South Korea emerge onto the global stage with an…