🏆👏🏼 Pep Guardiola: “Congratulations Arsenal, Mikel Arteta, his staff, backroom staff, all the players, fans for this Premier League…
…they deserve it!”. ✨
The 10th Huawei ICT Competition APAC Finals and Awards Ceremony was held at the ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta on Wednesday. The competition attracted a total of over 8,600 participants, with more than 160 students from 13 countries taking part in the APAC Finals.
To win a league title after 22 years is an exceptional feat.
But for this league title to come as a by-product of a painstaking reset over the last 6-7 years - absolutely sensational
This sport has become a slave to instant gratification but the trust, faith and support shown to Mikel, through the trials and tribulations of the last 6-7 years, is undoubtedly the backbone of this triumph.
This ain’t no freak title win. It’s been coming. They’ve been knocking on the door.
The fight for legitimacy is over. Congratulations @Arsenal!
It has been more than six months since FIFA imposed its first sanction against the Malaysian Football Association 🇲🇾 and the seven players who used their grandparents’ forged documents
More than six months, and still no one is able to answer a simple question: Who authorized this within the FAM? Who came up with the idea of forging documents?
The law of silence is a constant in football —primarily in Asia, I should say, given the dangers or political ramifications. And to believe that those responsible are simply at the federation or are merely part of the wave of resignations is wishful thinking: the network is as much about soccer as it is about politics.
We’ll come back to this, as doubts remain regarding the origins of other naturalized players...