Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Sydney: Fuelled by his remarkable past Olympic experiences, Graham Arnold holds a firm desire to oversee the first Australian football team to win an Olympic medal when they travel to Tokyo in July 2021.
Australia U-23’s head coach is no stranger to the Games, having previously taken part as both as a player and a coach.
After securing passage to the men’s tournament for the first time since 2008, Arnold believes that every member of the squad must earn the right to represent their nation in the Olympic arena.
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Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
London: Tottenham forward Son Heung-min will start four weeks of national service in Korea Republic this month.
Son returned to Asia recently after the Premier League was postponed because of the coronavirus and is in a two-week quarantine period.
With English football unlikely to return soon, the Korea Republic star will complete compulsory military service in his home country before returning to north London next month.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: Qatar’s Almoez Ali, who broke the all-time AFC Asian Cup goalscoring record in 2019, is the latest star to voice his support and raise awareness on the COVID-19 pandemic alongside Persita Tangerang defender Tamirlan Kozubaev from Kyrgyz Republic and Suwon Samsung Bluewings midfielder Kim Min-woo of Korea Republic.
The trio join the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) family’s rallying call through the #BreakTheChain campaign, to encourage people from around the world to adopt and learn about the best practices to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Dubai: The United Arab Emirates Football Association (UAE FA) announced on Monday that Serbian Ivan Jovanović has been relieved of his position as the national team head coach.
The 57-year-old coach took charge of the UAE national team in late December, replacing Bert van Marwijk who was sacked after a disappointing performance by UAE in the 2019 Gulf Cup.
Tue, 01 Nov, 2022
Kuala Lumpur: Over the years a number of Asian players have produced the goods at the FIFA World Cup, lighting up arenas around the globe and providing incredible moments that have gone down in the Continent’s footballing folklore.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: It's that time of the week when the-AFC.com takes you down memory lane as we look back on the greatest goals to have been scored in the history of the AFC Champions League.
After taking in some of the finest acrobatic goals in the first edition of the '5 of the Best' series and the most mesmerising solo goals last week, we turn our attention to volleys and recall some of the greatest strikes the Continental competition has ever witnessed.
To avoid any argument over whether the shot is a volley or half-volley, we have selected five where the ball does not bounce before the players have let fly.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: In the third part of this series of profiles, we look at five Chinese icons of the AFC Champions League era.
Since the opening edition of the AFC Champions League in 2002-03 to recent times, players from the world's most populous nation have left an indelible mark on the tournament.
While the bulk of our selection is understandably from powerhouse Guangzhou Evergrande - two-time winners and, indeed, the only side from China to lift the title in the AFC Champions League era - we have also included two stand-out forwards who have made their own Continental history away from the southern heavyweights.