Articles tagged with "asia"
Daily Dose: November 13th, 2009
By Daryl | November 13th, 2009Something to read while you support your national team hanging out the window of a moving vehicle. On Friday 13th. FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images World Cup playoff preview ...
Total Football Soccer Show#15: Asian Soccer Special
By Daryl | November 12th, 2009This week's show is 100% Asian football. We don't pretend to be experts. We don't pretend that we didn't do a lot of Wikipedia reading ...
Did Nawaf Al-Abid Score the Fastest Goal in Football?
By Daryl | November 9th, 2009The above strike from Al-Hilal midfielder Nawaf Al-Abid (or Alabed, you choose) is said to be the fastest goal in world football. It came just ...
Real Madrid Have Found The Promised Land, And Its Name Is 中国.
By chris | September 24th, 2009Never, ever forget: it's always about the money. When doctoring up a schedule for the week's domestic games, what should be taken into consideration? Other games, ...
Telling A Player To Dive Is Not A Smart Idea, It Turns Out.
By chris | August 26th, 2009Whilst Australia is cracking down on diving, their Asian brethren Japan are reeling from a slightly stupid - or tremendously stupid, your choice - remark ...
The Goal of 2009.
By chris | August 6th, 2009This is, plain and simple, one of the best goals you will ever see. Not that every own-half goal isn't brilliant, it's just the pace, ...
China Sets The New Standard For Discipline
By chris | July 30th, 2009You may recall that referee rundown which took place in China over the week (see above for a refresher). It was actually a youth-type game, ...
The Chinese Tom Henning Øvrebø (That's Ballack's Buddy From Chelsea v Barca)
By chris | July 28th, 2009Just yesterday Richard Scudamore, head of the Prem, sat himself in front of a bevy of reporters, not at all influenced by the fact that ...
New Kids Gangwon F.C. Making a Big Impression
By Brett | June 30th, 2009Jeonbuk Hyundai manager Choi Kang-hee didn’t sound surprised. Nor did he sound shocked. Or embarrassed. There was no need to hurl abuse at an average ...
Howler Files: The Gods Are Cruel.
By chris | June 29th, 2009We've seen this so often. Goalkeeper does the "smart" thing by aiming to prevent conceding a corner kick and in the process wind up conceding ...
Daily Dose: June 22nd, 2009.
By chris | June 22nd, 2009Egypt hangs upset blame on unfounded hooker accusations. (guardian) ESPN to broadcast Prem games in the UK. (EPL Talk) UEFA Cup kicks off in 10 days. Seriously. ...
Summer Hilarity
By Matt | June 20th, 2009So some bits and bobs to cover as the summer progresses. Asia Trip The Tigers look forward to their trip to Beijing, where they will play ...
And We All Fall Down
By Daryl | May 29th, 2009Dirty Tackle beat us to this by about three days, but it's too good not to post. It's from the May 19th Asian Champions League ...
Suwon Samsung Still in a World of Trouble
By Brett | May 27th, 2009With snow gently falling around him, Lee Won-jae looked up at the clock. It read 94:45. The Suwon and Korean legend took a deep breath ...
A Football Miracle Sends FC Seoul Through in the Champions League
By Brett | May 23rd, 2009Going into the sixth and final match day of this seasons Asian Champions League group stage, Suwon Samsung Bluewings and Pohang Steelers were already through, ...
Pain in the Rain for Daegu FC
By Brett | May 20th, 2009Byun Byoung-joo was motionless. Stunned. His gaze fixed on his own goal; on the ball nestled snuggly in the back of the net; on his ...
Bhaichung Bhutia Sparks Club vs Dancing Show Debate
By Daryl | May 19th, 2009Step aside club vs country. The new argument is club vs celebrity dancing show. India's most famous footballer Bhaichung Bhutia has fallen out with his I-League ...
A Name to Remember: Lee Keun-Ho
By Daryl | May 12th, 2009Take a look at this J-League goal from Jubilo Iwata's South Korean attacker Lee Keun-Ho. Dribbling along the touchline Lee goes around the keeper and ...
Daily Dose: May 5th, 2009.
By chris | May 5th, 2009Stuff to read while you hose down the pitch..... Finding a replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo at OT. (EPL Offside) Realizing there's no defending Joey Barton anymore. (SoccerLens) A ...
Another Day, Another Assault In Chinese Football
By chris | April 16th, 2009You know, ever since China pulled its domestic competition from terrestrial television for too cozily resembling martial arts and bringing in a strict disciplinarian to ...
Cui Peng: China's Bad Boy. Sort Of.
By chris | April 3rd, 2009The state of the game in China is pretty poor. The athletic standards are low and most games turn into impromptu martial arts tournament, forcing ...
China Pulls Its Own League From Television
By chris | November 20th, 2008China has decided to remove TV coverage of their top league due to excessive pitch violence which turns football matches into impromptu martial arts competitions. ...
Japan's Attempt to Curb Arsenal-itis
By chris | November 13th, 2008Some clubs bring the full cavalry to their cup matches because it's the only competition they have a chance at making a decent showing. Other ...
Adelaide United Need to Look Before They Pass
By Daryl | November 5th, 2008Adelaide United are the first Australian team to make it to the Asian Champions League Final, where they faced Gamba Osaka in the first leg ...
Asian Champions League Final Set; Wikipedia Predicts Winner.
By chris | October 22nd, 2008Defending champs Urawa Red Diamonds had the upper hand as they hosted Gamba Osaka in the semifinal of the Asian CL semifinals today, having drawn ...
Chinese Fan Gives Up on Football to Become a Monk
By Daryl | October 14th, 2008Have you ever been so frustrated with your team's fortunes that you just want to give up watching football altogether? You know the feeling. One ...
When in Goal, Attention Span Is Everything
By Laurie | October 10th, 2008Looks like this J-League goalkeeper forgot his Ritalin. And while I was trying to figure out where that video came from (no luck so ...
Calling All Brazilians To Uzbekistan
By chris | September 23rd, 2008Go ahead, name one club in the Uzbek League beside the one just below your line of sight. Can you? Doubt it. And if you ...
Japanese Fan Attacks Players On Pitch
By chris | September 21st, 2008Add this to the list of many reasons why the J. League needs to come mainstream. Kashiwa player Alex was lining up to take a ...
Photo: Incentives Work
By chris | September 8th, 2008Win a tournament you usually get a trophy. Not in Iraq, where the Asia Cup 2007 winning team will get a stadium in their honor. ...
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