Asia Cup - Most popular for December 2009

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Father and Son

Football Down Under and Beyond 06 December @ 01:58 AM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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The following conversation happened on Facebook Chat:
Jacob: Lol. Good prediction by me (:. Bring that to South Africa we'll see how right it is.
Hamish: Ha ha. I'm back to my position that it's gonna be damn tough for Oz in group D though. Ghana has this Chelsea striker who wasn't playing when we played them, and a couple of other gun Euro players.

Political Football: Riyas Komu and the Iraqi National Team

From a Left Wing 22 December @ 05:48 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Riyas Komu, Stadium I, 2007
Iraq's victory over Saudi Arabia in the 2007 Asia Cup final is likely to hold up as one the decade's most significant wins. The team's victory represented a complex distillation of resistance and anger. The torture and murder of Iraqi athletes is frequently cited in the litany of horrors suffered by the Iraqi people at the hands of Saddam Hussein (see this 2003 Sports Illustrated story).