John has resided in East Asia for ten years and has been called 'The Voice of Asian Football' by BBC Radio. He covers football on the giant continent for The Guardian, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, 442, MSN, AP and a number of newspapers and sites around Asia. John will do his best to keep Independent readers up to date with just a smidgeon of the fascinating football stories that are played out out east every day.
Sometimes nations play in regional tournaments on the other side of the world. The United States has appeared in the Copa America and hosted South Korea in the 2000 Gold Cup. The temptation to wonder what would happen if the US took part in the 2011 Asian Cup is hard to resist especially as Group [...]
By John Duerden | Sport | Friday, 7 January 2011 at 2:08 pm
Coaching India is no walk in the park, even for an experienced man like Bob Houghton. The former Fulham midfielder is preparing to take the South Asian nation to the 2011 Asian Cup in January. Finding players on the sub-continent with its billion-plus population is a far cry from 1979 when, you may remember, the Englishman guided Malmo to the final of the European Cup.
By John Duerden | Sport | Friday, 10 December 2010 at 1:05 pm
If we are talking about corners of foreign fields being forever English then this week you can look no further than south-east Asia where 37.5% of teams participating in the AFF Suzuki Cup, the biennial tournament for the region, are led by Englishmen.
By John Duerden | Sport | Friday, 3 December 2010 at 4:37 am
Most eyes in England may be on the race for 2018 but elsewhere in the world, billions of fans will be fixated on who gets to host 2022. And there is a good chance it is coming east.
By John Duerden | Sport | Tuesday, 23 November 2010 at 6:17 am
The tears that filled the eyes of Paul Gascoigne were clear to see as he received a yellow card for a challenge on Thomas Berthold in the semi-final of the 1990 World Cup. The youngster instantly realised that should England progress past the West Germans then he would play no part in the final.
By John Duerden | Sport | Friday, 12 November 2010 at 8:24 am
It doesn’t take much to get the Tehran sports media excited. When it comes to football, the newspapers have the freedom to say pretty much what they want and are not too concerned as to what is true and what isn’t.
By John Duerden | Sport | Friday, 5 November 2010 at 8:23 am
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