Articles tagged with "asia"
J-League vs K-League, The Future of the All-Star Game
By Daryl | February 22nd, 2008All-Star games are going international. The traditional J-League exhibition game between fan-selected East and West teams is being replaced by a J-League All-Stars XI ...
Professional Time Wasting At Its Finest
By chris | February 21st, 2008This took place recently during a women's game between China and South Korea. As injury time was running out and with China up 3-2, a ...
Premier League's 39th Game Gets the Middle Finger
By Daryl | February 13th, 2008Not sure what reaction the Premier League expected from potential venues for its cashgrab "international round", but I'm guessing a collective middle finger wasn't part ...
It's "Dumpling Diplomacy" for the Japanese Soccer Team
By Laurie | February 10th, 2008Let's say you're Japan. Relations with your huge, powerful neighbor are always a bit strained, but they've become moreso recently since dumplings made by ...
Thai Refereee Takes a Beating From Players
By Daryl | February 8th, 2008Rob Styles may have felt hard done by when the Premier League dropped him for refereeing the August 2007 Liverpool vs Chelsea match like a ...
Korean Soccer Players Deliberately Injuring Themselves
By Daryl | February 5th, 2008We love wacky football news. So here's some very wacky football news: There are currently 92 South Korean soccer players being indicted for dislocating their ...
Wow. That's Deep.
By Laurie | January 29th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUeNulR-u48&eurl=http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/2008/01/saudi_tv_presen.html[/youtube] If you're looking for profundity, go elsewhere. But watch this video first. If only to revel in the dueling accents
Iraq Star Can't Play in England. Iraq Blames America.
By Laurie | January 27th, 2008Iraqi soccer star Nashat Akram was this close to realizing his dream of playing in Europe. But it looks like it's not going to ...
Photo of the Day: Supporters with Soul
By Martha | January 25th, 2008This Iraq supporter may not be wearing a box on his head, but he's deeply invested in his team's 1-1 friendly draw with Jordan yesterday. ...
Our First Bicycle-Related Sex Scandal
By Martha | January 24th, 2008I have no idea how we missed this the first time around, but way back in June, J-League player Naoya Kikuchi was involved in a ...
Sir Alex Has a Chuckle
By Martha | January 24th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6VcrFHPM1I[/youtube] You may have heard that Manchester United were in Saudi Arabia this week for a benefit match against Al-Hilal. You may also have heard that ...
Stojković Returns to Japan
By Martha | January 22nd, 2008The last time anyone heard the name Dragan "Pixy" Stojković, it was probably in the context of the violence at Red Star Belgrade at the ...
Daily Dose 1.19.2008
By Martha | January 19th, 2008Things to read as you drink your presidential milkshake: "Let's have Harry Redknapp as a cockney Moses and Martin O'Neill as an Ulster Herod." (Guardian Unlimited) High ...
Urawa Reds Working the German Pipeline
By Martha | January 16th, 2008Earlier this month, Urawa Reds took another step in their effort to replace the goals they lost when Jefferson left, securing the signature of Eintracht ...
Another Japanese Player for Celtic?
By Martha | January 9th, 2008Just last week, the papers in Japan, Scotland and England were all discussing the possibility that standout midfielder and free kicking maestro Shunsuke Nakamura could ...
Note to Trialists: Don't Cry During Training
By Martha | January 8th, 2008It was reported last week that, after a successful trial with Manchester City, Saudi Arabia captain Yasser Al Qahtani turned down a contract offer with ...
Man City's Thai Owner Brings Thailand's NT to England
By Laurie | January 5th, 2008What's one of the benefits of being a billionaire owner of a large EPL team? You can fly your entire National Team in to train with ...
Daily Dose: 1.03.2008
By Martha | January 3rd, 2008Things to read with your totally sweet Hello Kitty contacts: The Unfortunate Torpor Of Newcastle United. (200%) The baby-centric celebration has gone (another step) too far. (Guardian) Pato ...
Kashima Antlers Take Japanese Double
By Martha | January 2nd, 2008Sanfrecce Hiroshima, who fell to Division 2 at the end of the J-League relegation playoff, saw their miracle Emperor's Cup run stopped on New Year's ...
Daily Dose: 12.30.2007
By Martha | December 30th, 2007Things to read as you wonder at the pretension of the guy who played the dad on The Brady Bunch: We don't have Vikash Dhorasoo to ...
Daily Dose: 12.29.07
By Martha | December 29th, 2007Things to read as you love and cherish your Blackwater Christmas card: Good god, Carles Puyol is bald! (Goal.com) That high altitude ruling of FIFA's? Still full ...
The Hazards of At-Will Promotion
By Martha | December 29th, 2007Korean's second-tier league, the N-League, was founded less than 10 years ago, and the possibility of promotion to the K-League for the winner of a ...
Urawa Seeking Reinforcements After Collapse
By Martha | December 28th, 2007Before they manfully battled The Might AC Milan to a respectable 0-1 result in the semifinals of the Club World Cup, Japan's Urawa Reds had ...
Every Referee Needs a Trusty Firearm
By Daryl | December 26th, 2007You may have noticed a steady decline in respect for referees in recent years. Remember Roy Keane leading his Man Utd teammates on an Andy ...
Asian Champions League Draw is Set
By Laurie | December 18th, 2007A few things you may not have known about the AFC (Asian Football Conference) Champions League: •For Group Stage purposes, the draw is divided into East ...
Double Draw for US U-23s Against China
By Laurie | December 18th, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6oq_UdMbAY[/youtube] The most dangerous lead in soccer is 3-0. Everybody and Eric Wynalda says so. Oh. Wait. No they don't. But ...
Philippe Troussier's Globe-Trotting Continues
By Martha | December 18th, 2007During the 2002 World Cup, Philippe Troussier was a hero in Japan. He'd coached the national team for four years, leading them to victory in ...
Madness in Singapore
By Martha | December 18th, 2007In the final of the Singapore Cup last month, the always high-strung Noh Alam Shah absolutely lost his mind. (Be patient with the clip, there ...
The Offside Rewind: Playing Dress-Up
By Martha | December 15th, 2007•Oh, Sheva. •Sucks to be Oceania. •Rafael van der Vaart is a whore. •Denilson is taking "DP" off his business cards. •Key English phrases for Fabio Capello. •NO TOUCHING! •Football dreams. The ...
Club World Cup Final Set
By Martha | December 13th, 2007It took more than an hour, but Milan eventually took advantage of their domination of Urawa Reds in Yokohama this morning, going ahead through Clarence ...
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