Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Dushanbe: Tajikistan national team head coach Usmon Toshev has taken advantage of a three-week break in the country’s domestic league, calling up 24 players for a six-day training camp in the nation’s capital.
The players will participate in two training sessions per day in preparation for their first international matches in 2020.
Tajikistan are scheduled to meet Uzbekistan in a friendly international in Tashkent on September 3, before travelling to southwest to play against United Arab Emirates later that week.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: With the 2020 AFC Champions League on hiatus until September, the-AFC.com continues its series of articles to determine your best sides from the last four editions of the Continental competition.
Last week we presented the candidates for the 2018 edition's best goalkeeper, and now it's time to turn our attention to defenders.
So, here are the 14 players in contention for the four places in the backline. Review the nominees and then choose your favourite defenders for this all-star XI in the respective polls.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Sydney: Football Federation Australia (FFA) announced on Sunday Ante Milicic has stepped down from the role of head coach of Australia’s senior women’s national football team, the Matildas, and will honour his pre-existing three-year contract with incoming A-League club Macarthur FC.
Milicic was appointed to the role of head coach of the Matildas in February 2019, and over the past 18 months oversaw Australia’s successful qualification for the women’s football tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and helped Australia reach the Round of 16 at the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019.
Milicic signed on to become the inaugural head coach of Macarthur FC in May 2019 prior to last year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup, and while he was due to complete his time with the Matildas at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the rescheduling of the Games to 2021 due to the unprecedented, global COVID-19 pandemic has regrettably forced a decision on Milicic’s coaching future to be made.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Baghdad: The Iraq Football Association normalisation committee has announced that the new season of the Iraq Professional League will start on September 20 with the participation of 20 clubs.
A statement said the “Normalisation Committee agreed on the decision of the Competitions Committee to launch the new 2020-2021 season on September 20 with the participation of 20 clubs.”
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: Saeed Al Owairan's brilliant effort for Saudi Arabia against Belgium in the 1994 edition has been voted as the greatest Asian goal at the FIFA World Cup.
Owairan's superb effort was picked as the best from a list of 20 goals the-AFC.com shortlisted in polls which were conducted over the last three weeks.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: It's more goals galore from the AFC Cup and this week the-AFC.com turns its focus to a handful of quick-witted touches that have bamboozled opposition defences and goalkeepers.
From a delightful tournament-winning strike in Qarshi to impudent efforts in Al-Ram, Arbil, Dhaka and Cibinong, our latest edition of the '5 of the Best' really does cover the length and breadth of the Continent. So enjoy the selection and don't forget to vote for your favourite in the poll below!
Also take a look at past editions that feature acrobatic goals, solo goals, volleys, long-range screamers, free-kicks, last-minute winners and curlers.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: They are Asian football’s great managers, motivators and masterminds.
In the 64-year history of the tournament, only 16 men have won the AFC Asian Cup as a head coach, with countless other talented tacticians trying, and failing, to get their hands on Asian football’s greatest prize.