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AFC's U-turn on Infantino: the 211-vote arithmetic before the 18 November deadline18 November is the deadline for candidates to file for the FIFA presidency....
From Baku to Zurich: The 106-Vote Arithmetic and a Laugh Not Meant for the Press RoomIn a hall in Baku, moments after the first match of the inaugural FIFA U-15...
FIFA U-15 World Cup: Wenger, Stoichkov and the Forty-Minute GambleA training pitch on the outskirts of Madrid, seven in the morning in June....
Vietnam U15 head to Azerbaijan: how the 8v8 rulebook rewrites the entire tactical problemOn the last morning in Bac Ninh, an assistant coach walked out to the middle ...
Indonesian Football and the Lesson of 'Mislead' News Before the Asian CupIn Southeast Asian football, there are news reports that are not factually...
FIFA and The Times: When an Apology Becomes a Media WeaponOn October 21, FIFA published the full text of The Times' apology on its...
FAM Convicted of Naturalization Document Forgery Yet Still AFC-Nominated: A Golden Federation or Southeast Asian Football's Cautionary Tale?On 16 October, the AFC Awards 2026 nomination list was published ahead of the...
5 European Players of Indonesian Descent Who Could Represent the National Team at the 2027 Asian Cup: Strategy, Risk and Expectation AnalysisIn the context of Indonesian football striving to close the gap with Asia's...
Messi Bids Farewell to Argentina: One Goal, Two Assists, a 3-0 Win Over Benin and Two Records Still to Be VerifiedLionel Messi has played his final match for the Argentina national team. The...
Three Wins, Seven Dossiers and One Hurried Line Before Malaysia vs VietnamIn Jakarta, the third-place match of the FIFA ASEAN Cup 2026 between Vietnam...
Malaysian Press on the Third-Place Match Against Vietnam: Reading a Game Through Memory and AbsencesJakarta, an afternoon without sun. Bung Karno Stadium stood still like a god...
Eleven Days, Four Matches, and Four Empty Seats in ZeistMarseille, three in the morning on October 3. I sat up at the sound of a...
Swiss Football Association Withdraws Support for Infantino: When Home Turns Its Back on the FIFA PresidentSeptember twenty-fifth. A closed meeting room in Zurich. No stands, no whistl...
Reviewing FIFA's transfer ban: When Vietnamese football learns to comply with the rules of the gameIn modern football, a whistle can change the fate of a match, but a legal...
Paes and Romeny: Indonesia Locks Down the Legal Channel at Football's Two Highest-Leverage PositionsHanoi, the evening of 26 March 2026. Fine rain drifting across the stands of ...
The Grandfather's Birth Certificate: When Indonesian Football Goes Looking for Blood in a Place No Longer on the MapThe Grandfather's Birth Certificate On the birth certificate of a man born in...
Paes, Romeny and FIFA's Two Doors: No Loophole in Indonesia's FileIn April 2026, Maarten Paes — a goalkeeper born in 2026 — completed his...
Nazriel Alfaro Called Up to Indonesia U-20: The Road to the 2027 AFC U-20 Asian Cup and Persib Bandung's Training-Compensation EquationThere is a very particular kind of silence in Indonesian football, one I only...
Ceferin and Trust That Has Not Returned: After FIFA Withdrew Its Plan to Sell 20% of World Cup RightsLast Wednesday, at the Portugal Football Summit, Aleksander Ceferin stepped u...
A Letter to 211 Federations and FIFA's Test of TrustThree pages in English, sent at the same time to 211 member associations,...
FIFA orders Thanh Hoa to pay Rimario 305,000 USD: the case file, the precedent and the 45-day clockOn 10 September 2026, a document from FIFA headquarters reached the Vietnam...
The Empty Chair in the Transfer Window: The Craft of Reading the VoidOn the final night of the winter transfer window, I sat in front of three...
COVID relief funds buried in a private apartment: FIFA hands lifetime bans to former Maldives and Montserrat federation presidentsOn September 11, FIFA announced four disciplinary sanctions in a single batch...
Eddie Nketiah at the Ghana-England crossroads: A verdict read from FIFA's rulebook and three startsThere is a data point buried in Eddie Nketiah's file that few people notice: ...
Argentina's No. 10 Shirt: A Legacy That Cannot Be Hung on a WallWhen Messi leaves, Argentina's No. 10 shirt cannot be hung on a wall like a...
