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Zheng Yen · October 21, 2026
On 23 May 2026, 50,032 people packed the Bukit Jalil National Stadium for the Malaysia Cup final, and Johor Darul Ta’zim did what they have done for most of a decade: waited, then struck late. Marcos Guilherme and Arif Aiman...
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Zheng Yen · October 21, 2026
Johor Darul Ta’zim won 23 of their 24 league games last season, and the team that finished second still ended 17 points behind them. That gap is the first thing most newcomers notice about Malaysia’s top flight, and it hides...
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Zheng Yen · October 21, 2026
How Malaysia's Liga Super works, who the big clubs are and why Johor Darul Ta'zim's long unbeaten run has made it a league worth following....
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Zheng Yen · October 19, 2026
Algeria have played in 21 editions of the Africa Cup of Nations and won exactly two of them, three decades apart, both times against opponents who arrived as genuine contenders rather than makeweights. The 1990 win came at home against...
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Zheng Yen · October 17, 2026
The Black Stars is the nickname of Ghana’s men’s national football team, taken directly from the black star at the centre of the country’s flag. That symbol traces back further still, to Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line, a shipping company...
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Zheng Yen · October 14, 2026
Riyad Mahrez once had a trial at Scottish club St Mirren cut short simply because of the cold weather, a small, almost forgettable detail that says everything about how unremarkable his path into professional football looked at the time. Scouts...
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Zheng Yen · October 11, 2026
Ask any Brazilian who has the biggest torcida and you will hear two names: Flamengo and Corinthians. The surveys back that up, but the percentages you see online vary quite a bit depending on who ran the poll and how...
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Zheng Yen · October 11, 2026
The 2024 Brasileirão averaged 25,773 paying fans per match, the second-highest figure in the competition’s history. Only 2023 did better, with 26,519. Flamengo alone averaged 51,084, which made them the best-supported side again. Those numbers say plenty about where Brazilian...
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Zheng Yen · October 11, 2026
AZ Alkmaar’s last league title came in 2008-09, with Louis van Gaal’s controlled, fit and relentless side. Eleven years later, Arne Slot’s counter-attacking 4-3-3 finished second on goal difference in a season that never reached its end. A string of...
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Zheng Yen · October 11, 2026
On 26 November 2024, Cuiabá’s relegation was confirmed with three rounds still to play. Juventude beat Atlético Mineiro 3-2 that night, and the maths left Cuiabá unable to catch the clubs above them. It was the first relegation in the...
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Zheng Yen · October 11, 2026
In April 2024, a CAF Confederation Cup semi-final between RS Berkane and USM Alger was cancelled twice in the space of eight days. The reason was not injuries or bad weather. Algerian customs had seized the Moroccan club’s shirts because...
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Zheng Yen · October 10, 2026
Algerian Ligue 1, officially the Ligue Professionnelle 1, is contested by 16 clubs across a double round-robin season. Here is how Algeria's top flight works....
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Zheng Yen · October 8, 2026
The Desert Foxes is the English rendering of Les Fennecs, the nickname Algeria’s men’s national football team carries in honour of the fennec fox, a small nocturnal animal native to the Sahara. The side is also known as Les Verts,...
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Zheng Yen · October 7, 2026
In April 2023, AZ Alkmaar became the first Dutch club to win the UEFA Youth League, beating Hajduk Split 5-0 in the final. Weeks later, the senior side went out of the Europa Conference League semi-finals against West Ham United....
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Zheng Yen · October 6, 2026
Lucas Radebe was shot in Soweto before he ever set foot in England, the bullet passing through his back and out through his thigh in an attack rumoured to have been an attempt to stop his move abroad. It did...
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Zheng Yen · October 3, 2026
Mark Williams was sitting on the bench when South Africa walked out at FNB Stadium to face Tunisia in the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations final. By the final whistle he had scored both goals in a 2-0 win, delivered...
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Zheng Yen · October 3, 2026
Ranking South Africa’s greatest players means weighing two very different careers side by side: the ones who built their legend at home in the PSL, and the ones who took South African football abroad and proved it could compete at...
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Zheng Yen · October 2, 2026
Every Soweto Derby carries a strange irony. Kaizer Chiefs, one of the two biggest clubs in South African football, exists only because its founder once played for Orlando Pirates and walked away from it. That single break in 1970 created...
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Zheng Yen · October 1, 2026
The PSL runs South African football's top division, currently branded the Betway Premiership. Our guide explains how the league works and who the big clubs are....
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Zheng Yen · September 29, 2026
Bafana Bafana is the nickname of South Africa’s men’s national football team, a Zulu and Nguni phrase that roughly translates to “the boys, the boys” or, in the way most fans hear it, “go, boys, go.” It is one of...
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