The AFC Cup is a fascinating tournament that always involves football with politics and other different issues.
The 2019 edition of the competition has gathered Lebanese champions Al-Ahed, who are related to the Hezbollah, and April 25 - North Korea’s biggest club. A football match between Hassan Nassrallah and Kim Jong-un. Game on!
He’s been coaching in central Asia, the US, Middle East and West Africa. He nurtured football culture in Kyrgyzstan, worked at the famous Aspire Academy in Qatar and guided Hearts of Oak in Ghana. The amazing career of Kenichi Yatsuhashi is indeed a fascinating one. Walid Bylka interviewed him exclusively for BabaGol: They talked African football, the best food he had in his journeys, and where he was blamed to be an engineer rather than a football coach. A must-read interview.
The Chinese FA is losing patience with the national’s team slow growth process, and has decided to quicken up the naturalization process of four more Brazilian players, who will soon join the squad.
North Korea against South Korea. It can’t get any more tense and interesting than this. It is the South’s first visit to Pyongyang in almost 30 years, this time for a crucial World Cup qualifier. To celebrate this big event, we examined the football history of the the Korean peninsula.
Olympique Lyon fans are tired of being pushed around by the money greedy Ligue 1 and its strong Chinese connections, so they demonstrated in a very creative and bold way - a Free Tibet tifo.
