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TAG Podcast: Episode 89
Scott, Michael and Paul are all on deck as we look back at the recent EAFF E-1 Championships and ask what World Cup combatants Japan and Korea can take away from the tournament. Also on […]
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TAG Podcast: Episode 87
We’re joined by special guest Bassil Mikdadi from Football Palestine to discuss Palestinian football, Australia’s qualification for Qatar 2022 and a broader look at the recently completed Asian Cup qualification, and the significance of Southeast […]
ANALYSIS
Saudi’s future shines for historic U23 triumph
Saudi Arabia were crowned U23 AFC Asian Cup champions for the first time this weekend, following an ultimately comprehensive 2-0 victory over hosts Uzbekistan at Milliy Stadium in Tashkent, following 32 matches squeezed into under […]
ROAD TO QATAR 2022
Abdulrahman’s return breathes life into UAE World Cup hopes
On a typically balmy summer’s evening at Sydney’s cavernous Olympic Stadium for the quarter final of the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, a collective gasp could be heard echoing around the barely quarter-filled stadium. It was […]
ANALYSIS
Thrills and spills expected as Asian Cup qualifying concludes
This coming week greets the culmination of Asian Cup 2023 qualification with the final round of qualifiers set to take place across the continent. Three years in the making, one sizeable pandemic-shaped-inconvenience navigated, the competing […]
PODCAST
TAG Podcast: AFC Asian Cup Qualifying
As qualifying for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup reaches a crescendo, we are joined by preeminent Asian football analysts Rhysh Roshan Rai and The Asian Game’s very own Martin Lowe to preview a bumper few […]
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TAG Podcast: UAE vs Australia Preview
We look ahead to a mammoth Intercontinental Playoff between Australia and the United Arab Emirates, and to help us preview all the action we are joined by esteemed journalist John McAuley from The National UAE […]
ANALYSIS
U23 Asian Cup to shine spotlight on Asia’s next generation
The biennial AFC U23 Championship, newly rebranded as the U23 AFC Asian Cup, is set to kick off a month-long international football feast in Asia, with the youth tournament playing second fiddle behind the culmination […]
PODCAST
TAG Podcast: Episode 84
It’s a bumper show this week and we start by discussing the controversy surrounding the hosting rights for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup after China withdrew as host 12 months out from the tournament. Why, […]
OPINION
OPINION: AFC must consider the good of the game when deciding World Cup fate
As the great and the good of association administrators prepare to descend on the 32nd AFC Congress this coming week, the power to change the course of development and opportunity across Asian football couldn’t be […]