Feature: What Does Ballon D'or Tell Us?

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Messi won Ballon D’or three times in a row, well a hat-trick in winning this award is really impressive, but when the mighty Ronaldo was unable to achieve this, what does it tell us? Is it because there were no other players better than Messi? Or is it because the world already blinded from other footballing style and only know how to scream Barcelona?  This should probably be called, Football Imperialism.

Feature: Dear AFC, Time for Some Changes

I didn’t try to hide my shock and disappointed face when I heard all Japanese and Korean players who were running for AFC player of the year were unable to attend the event. Because it means that these four players would be ineligible for the award. Why is that? Well, AFC has this rule that player must attend the annual awards ceremony to win the trophy. With this rule, a lot of questions arose.

Inside AFC Annual Awards Ceremony

Yes, this was the table for media. We were lucky to be able to attend this ceremony with Rene from Eito Arena, along with many other media representatives from around the world. Although the absence of Honda, Kagawa, Homare Sawa and so on is a big disappointment for us, we are happy to be able to witness this event.

2011 AFC Player of the Year award: Last 10

Former winner, Server Djeparov
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This year, the AFC Player of the Year award ceremony will be held on November 23, 2011, which is really soon, at the Mandarin Oriental, Kuala Lumpur. AFC has just announced the second shortlist today:

Naoki Matsuda: Too Soon Too Young

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Women’s World Cup Champion – Japan!

A big congratulation to JAPAN! They did it. They have become the first Asian country that lifted the World Cup trophy. These ladies have made their country proud and all Asian proud.

Matches to Catch: WWC and COPA 2011

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