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Controlling a ball without using your hands and other simple rules have helped soccer to become the most popular sport in the world. However, these days star players are gravitating toward the professional leagues of Europe. Abundant capital is flowing in from other countries, and the consequent overconcentration of resources is causing concern.
Shirt sponsorship ends 110-year tradition for FC...
Even as the kickoff looms, a long line of customers winds its way to the checkout. On March 3 in Barcelona in Spain's northeast, replica uniforms are flying off the racks at FC ...
Doha, Qatar: Investing in European soccer with...
A 10-minute drive from downtown Doha, the capital of Qatar, a vast low-rise structure some 200 meters across comes into view on the side of the highway.
Top players, big money increasingly gravitating to...
In early March in Milan, Italy, a suit-clad Yuto Nagatomo appeared in a corridor used for interviews where journalists are standing by. He looked at home wearing a necktie in...
Platini's 'fair play' rule key to sound club...
Manchester City is the epitome of a club that has been strengthened by an injection of foreign capital, in this case from the Middle East.
Afterthoughts/ Soccer, the universal language
Traveling overseas brought me to the realization that soccer is our world's universal language. Bringing up the name of a famous player from the country you are visiting can...
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Director brings out the theater in opera
May 12, 2013When the curtain rises, Shugo Ikoh's job as an opera director is done. There is nothing more that he can do. He always sits alone in an aisle seat among the audience.
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Asia’s No. 1 hub: Malaysia has ambitious plans...
May 12, 2013With oil consumption in the Asia-Pacific region increasing more than 30 percent since 2000, Malaysia has been bolstering its role as an energy consumer and regional hub for energy trading. In cooperation with Singapore, with...
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ASICS races for larger share of global sport shoe...
December 23, 2012ASICS, Japan’s largest sport shoe, apparel and equipment manufacturer, is gradually starting to make lengthy strides into the global athletic shoe market dominated by U.S.-based Nike and German Adidas.