The AFC Asian Cup trophy will remain in Doha after Qatar’s 3-1 victory over Jordan on Saturday. In front of more than 86,000 spectators at Lusail Stadium, a hattrick of penalties from Akram Afif secured […]
It’s the showpiece event on the Asian football calendar, and finally the AFC Asian Cup final is upon us. Starting from Souq Waqif on the eve of the game, follow Scott McIntyre’s journey to Lusail […]
The year is 2000. A young Qatari journalist named Khalid Jassem, in his 20s, is interviewing a group of footballers seated in front of him. They’ve just won the Qatari league title for Al-Sadd, one […]
History beckons and immortality awaits for whoever emerges victorious from one of the most unlikely AFC Asian Cup finals; Qatar facing off against Jordan at Lusail Stadium cannot have been on many observers’ list of […]
Jordan has defied all the odds and pre-tournament predictions to make it through to their first ever AFC Asian Cup Final. Can they now complete the fairytale and go all the way? Scott McIntyre speaks […]
When Qatar and Jordan played in a pre-Asian Cup friendly at the start of January – a game Jordan won 2-1 – no one expected that the next time the two team’s would meet would […]
There was something exuberant about it, move after move, a noticeable pattern that you could recognise but could do little to stop. It starts with Mousa Al-Taamari conjuring the ball off the defender. Then Yazan […]
Jordan has pulled off one of the AFC Asian Cups greatest upsets with a stunning 2-0 win over Korea Republic to secure their place in the final for the very first time. A masterclass from […]
As his name echoed around the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, there was no doubting who Jordanian fans felt deserved the accolades as their nation overcame expectations to progress to the AFC Asian Cup final for […]
One of the first times I visited Jordan, I was sat at a barbers’ shop on the edge of the Amman New Camp, a refugee camp known locally as ‘Wehdat,’ having had the place recommended […]
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