Every four years we eagerly wait for an event, which can only be categorized as the grandest of all sporting spectacles out there. For a period of four weeks in that year we see thirty-two nations, and their 352 representatives battle it out for the most coveted medal/cup…

It was a chilly evening in Lower Manhattan, few of us were at this café, smoking our lungs away on the hookah’s and discussing football in the Arab region. As the discussion carried on, a friend hit me with a question? “Does Palestine have a football team?”That got…

On a more serious note, getting away from the latest in football frenzy of transfers, money, corruption, etc, once in a while, we do come across some good that the sport does in raising the standard of living of people across the world. We get so engraved in…

As most of us would have noticed by now, Football is not a sport that us South East Asians do well in. The sport is probably a few spots behind the obvious fanaticism of Cricket, Tennis, Volleyball, Badminton, Boxing, Kite flying, and gilli-danda (the unique sport that involves…