steve mifsud
VolleyballAnaheim's LA28 Rehearsal: When Women's Volleyball Is Measured in Broadcast HoursOn the stands of Noevir Stadium Kobe in April 2026, I counted exactly three...
International FootballAmoruso and Juventus's Unanswered Question: If Kolo Muani Is Not a No.9, Who Is?At Mapei Stadium, the final whistle arrived moments after Adzic put the ball ...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026: India Defends Its Throne in the Heart of Samarkand, and the Gukesh–Sindarov Showdown Takes Center StageI have followed chess for nearly four decades, from my early days as a young...
EsportsDoes Winning MSI Mean Winning Worlds? The Trap of a Small SampleOn esports analysis forums, a belief is spreading ahead of the new season:...
Domestic FootballFive Matches Without a Goal: Where Thành phố Đồng Nai Break Down, and Why a New Coach May Not Fix ItIn the 67th minute at Bình Phước stadium, a Thành phố Đồng Nai midfielder...
Table TennisTable Tennis: An Analysis With No Data Still Reads Like TruthI opened the document close to midnight, once the post-match thread had gone...
EsportsWolves Esports: From the Dim Light of Threshold China 2026, Looking at a Contracting SystemThe 2-0 win over A Team at VCT Threshold China 2026 on 21 October is not a...
EsportsReading a Major Tournament Through Data: Four Times My Model Broke and What I LearnedI remember the morning after the match at Anfield. August 2026, Liverpool...
BadmintonIndia at the 2026 Asian Games: Twenty Shuttlers on a Narrow BridgeIn June 2026, the Badminton Association of India named a 20-strong squad for...
EsportsThe VCS transfer window: the money still arrives, but nobody pays for age seventeenAt 1:47 in the morning on 14 December 2026, a VCS team director told me over...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: Satwik-Chirag Fall in Round One as India's Depth Gap SurfacesThe scoreboard at Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium in Aichi Prefecture...
BadmintonNine analytical sections, not a single smash: when a badminton analyst has to put the pen downAt 1:40 in the morning I opened a nine-section report on my laptop screen....
EsportsNine Analytical Dimensions Returned Empty: A Busan Night and the Cost of an Unnamed Game3:47 a.m., Busan. Two windows are still lit in the apartment block across the...
VolleyballJapan Opens the Asian Championship in Fukuoka: The Road to LA 2028 Begins in a Pool With Almost No RivalIn Fukuoka, when the referee blows the whistle to open the Asian Men's...
TennisAlcaraz's US Open Comeback: 18 of 21 Games Won, But the Real Test Hasn't StartedWhen the first-set scoreline read 4-6 against Nuno Faria, ranked 72nd in the...
International FootballRoberto Fernández and the Espanyol Gamble: How Mid-Table LaLiga Teaches Europe to Recycle a No.9 Abandoned by BragaThere is a moment Roberto Fernández will remember for the rest of his life, a...
Domestic FootballHAGL vs Hai Phong at Pleiku: Possession Against Fast CounterattackKick-off is 17:00 on 13 September at Pleiku. HAGL walk into a fixture their...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Martial Arts: Every Bout Passes, a Piece of Data DisappearsThe bout ended when the bell rang, but the lights went out with it. I stayed...
International FootballEmpty Data and Missing Talents: Notes from a Scout Working in VietnamMy notebook has a page that was left blank. That page holds the name of a...
Domestic FootballA 200,000-dong ticket, one app and 48 hours: three layers of rules shaping the fixtures at Thien TruongOn 9 November 2026, round 7 of the V.League closes. Forty-eight hours later,...
International FootballAmoruso and Juventus's Unanswered Question: If Kolo Muani Is Not a No.9, Who Is?At Mapei Stadium, the final whistle arrived moments after Adzic put the ball ...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026: India Defends Its Throne in the Heart of Samarkand, and the Gukesh–Sindarov Showdown Takes Center StageI have followed chess for nearly four decades, from my early days as a young...
EsportsDoes Winning MSI Mean Winning Worlds? The Trap of a Small SampleOn esports analysis forums, a belief is spreading ahead of the new season:...
Domestic FootballFive Matches Without a Goal: Where Thành phố Đồng Nai Break Down, and Why a New Coach May Not Fix ItIn the 67th minute at Bình Phước stadium, a Thành phố Đồng Nai midfielder...
Table TennisTable Tennis: An Analysis With No Data Still Reads Like TruthI opened the document close to midnight, once the post-match thread had gone...
EsportsWolves Esports: From the Dim Light of Threshold China 2026, Looking at a Contracting SystemThe 2-0 win over A Team at VCT Threshold China 2026 on 21 October is not a...
EsportsReading a Major Tournament Through Data: Four Times My Model Broke and What I LearnedI remember the morning after the match at Anfield. August 2026, Liverpool...
BadmintonIndia at the 2026 Asian Games: Twenty Shuttlers on a Narrow BridgeIn June 2026, the Badminton Association of India named a 20-strong squad for...
EsportsThe VCS transfer window: the money still arrives, but nobody pays for age seventeenAt 1:47 in the morning on 14 December 2026, a VCS team director told me over...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: Satwik-Chirag Fall in Round One as India's Depth Gap SurfacesThe scoreboard at Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium in Aichi Prefecture...
BadmintonNine analytical sections, not a single smash: when a badminton analyst has to put the pen downAt 1:40 in the morning I opened a nine-section report on my laptop screen....
EsportsNine Analytical Dimensions Returned Empty: A Busan Night and the Cost of an Unnamed Game3:47 a.m., Busan. Two windows are still lit in the apartment block across the...
VolleyballJapan Opens the Asian Championship in Fukuoka: The Road to LA 2028 Begins in a Pool With Almost No RivalIn Fukuoka, when the referee blows the whistle to open the Asian Men's...
TennisAlcaraz's US Open Comeback: 18 of 21 Games Won, But the Real Test Hasn't StartedWhen the first-set scoreline read 4-6 against Nuno Faria, ranked 72nd in the...
International FootballRoberto Fernández and the Espanyol Gamble: How Mid-Table LaLiga Teaches Europe to Recycle a No.9 Abandoned by BragaThere is a moment Roberto Fernández will remember for the rest of his life, a...
Domestic FootballHAGL vs Hai Phong at Pleiku: Possession Against Fast CounterattackKick-off is 17:00 on 13 September at Pleiku. HAGL walk into a fixture their...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Martial Arts: Every Bout Passes, a Piece of Data DisappearsThe bout ended when the bell rang, but the lights went out with it. I stayed...
International FootballEmpty Data and Missing Talents: Notes from a Scout Working in VietnamMy notebook has a page that was left blank. That page holds the name of a...
Domestic FootballA 200,000-dong ticket, one app and 48 hours: three layers of rules shaping the fixtures at Thien TruongOn 9 November 2026, round 7 of the V.League closes. Forty-eight hours later,...
