Tag Archives: football

2022

I’ll be sixty years old then. And the pride that I feel now for having our neighbour Qatar hosting the FIFA World Cup 2022 will not have abated. Qatar has proven to all – and not just through successfully bidding for the World Cup – that it is a force to be reckoned with. It …

Congrats Iraq!

Iraq’s captain Younis Mahmood header clinched the Asian Cup championship to a well-deserving Iraq! The final (which I did not watch but just as happy for the result) between two Arab giants Saudi and Iraq must have been a nail-biter, but as we are all rooting for some good news for Iraq and Iraqis I …

Mabrook Italia!

I was rooting for the French for most of the game last night, and both played brilliantly; however, that Zidane brainfart moment was just too much. I have no idea what the other player said to him, and I’m betting it is something deeply personal or racist, but regardless, it was Zidane’s last game in …