Core training, improvised backyard circuits and the increasingly popular #StayAtHome juggling challenge are making sure the stars of the show will be ready to shine once more when football makes its eagerly awaited return.

Fill up your protein shaker and join the-AFC,com as we examine how, in ways we couldn’t have expected, football’s coming home.

After featuring fabulous free-kicks, long-range stunners and individual brilliance, this week's edition takes in one of our most popular categories: acrobatic goals. Athletic, exciting and often jaw-dropping, enjoy these magnificent efforts and then select your favourite by voting at the bottom of the article.

Central Asia is a region with a proud footballing past, and the extended outlook appears equally bright with several talented youngsters emerging in recent years.

Join the the-AFC.com as we profile seven youngsters from Asian football’s Central Zone who look poised for long and successful careers in the game.

For the first edition, we look at six different clubs from across the breadth of the Asian Football Confederation and explore the meaning behind their unique team nicknames.

It may not have been his most stunning goal, but Marañón's close-range header to put Ceres Negros 3-0 up over Bali United last week proved to be a milestone strike.

It took the Spaniard past Jordanian Mahmoud Shelbaieh's record which has stood since February 2015. The-AFC.com caught up exclusively with the Ceres No 7 to reflect on his achievement.

Honda, 33, got a hero's welcome from thousands of fans when he arrived in Brazil on February 7, but played his first match in the eery quiet of Botafogo's deserted stadium.

He was photographed training ahead of the Rio Cup tie with a mask on.

It may be his last match for some time: the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) has suspended the season until further notice because of the pandemic, effective Monday.