dave fiddeman
Basketball€26.75 Million in Athens: A Self-Graded Report and the Sleeping Giant Hiding Behind 3.3%On the last night in Athens, an hour after the final buzzer, I stayed behind ...
BadmintonIndia Beat Kazakhstan 3-0 at the Asian Games: A Clean Scoreline and Two Doubles Matches That Were Never PlayedThe clock on the wall of my office in Nagoya read 2:47 a.m. when the scoreboa...
Table TennisFour Days in Skopje: A Chinese Legend and a System Carried Across BordersA table sits by the window of a training hall in Skopje. The woman standing a...
BasketballVietnamese Basketball 2045: From Passion to Sports IndustryAs I sat in front of the screen watching a Vietnamese Basketball Association...
International FootballRaphinha and Barcelona's Week of Hell: When a Muscle Becomes the Tactical Focal PointI still remember that Thursday morning in Nagoya, when the news from Brazil...
International FootballRayo Vallecano and the South Stand Closure: When the Rulebook Puts Spectator Safety Above Every NumberThe South Stand Does Not Fall Silent the Way an Empty Stand Does In Hanoi, I...
Domestic FootballComprehensive Assessment of Insufficient Information in Vietnamese Sports AnalysisComprehensive Assessment provides no usable source material. Article title,...
International FootballGöztepe set a three-wins-from-three target inside an away-heavy fixture runGöztepe entered the international break without a single win in the Süper Lig...
International FootballEmpty Files and Struck-Out Numbers: Three Decades of Verifying Football DataIn 2026, the data file on a 22-year-old Girona defender that I downloaded was...
International FootballEmpty Data, Full Report: The Trap Inside Football's Analytics IndustryOn the morning of August 12, 2026, in Incheon, I opened a fourteen-page PDF...
Table TennisWorld Table Tennis: The Void Behind China's ThroneIn Paris, when Fan Zhendong ended the men's singles final with a forehand loo...
EsportsVietnamese Esports Loses Not Because of Weakness, But Because We Train Like It's the Last CenturyI stood in the corridor behind the main stage of the Asian championship,...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Day 1: India's women open against Kazakhstan, and the value of a fixture nobody filmsThe Day 1 scoreboard at the 2026 Asian Games, on the morning of September 20,...
BadmintonSrikanth's Resurgence at 33: Victory Comes Not from Luck, but from Reading SpaceWhen the score was 11-15 in the first game, Kidambi Srikanth looked like a...
ChessChess Diplomacy: Sindarov's Handwritten World Cup Scoresheet Becomes a Gift Between Two LeadersI have followed elite chess for nearly four decades, but I have never seen a...
VolleyballTürkiye's Men's Volleyball Breaks into the World Top Six: A Generational Shift and the 2027 Draw ProblemLate September, the ceiling fan in Hai Phong turning slow and creaking, I was...
International FootballSouth Korea at the 2026 World Cup: Tactics, Data and What the Scoreboard Never TellsIn the 88th minute, from the stands of Estadio Akron in Guadalajara, I heard...
Domestic FootballDinh Bac and the Captain's Armband: The Three Seconds Before the Goal and the Test Named ThailandThe stands were not full. Dinh Bac stood at the edge of the penalty area, bot...
Domestic Football200 km and a Late Call-Up: Vietnam Enters ASEAN Cup 2026 Through a Squad EquationAt 13:00 on September 23, the plane carrying Vietnam's national team landed i...
VolleyballTürkiye's Sixth Place and the Draw Problem at the 2027 World ChampionshipI read the news brief about the Türkiye men's national volleyball team three...
BadmintonIndia Beat Kazakhstan 3-0 at the Asian Games: A Clean Scoreline and Two Doubles Matches That Were Never PlayedThe clock on the wall of my office in Nagoya read 2:47 a.m. when the scoreboa...
Table TennisFour Days in Skopje: A Chinese Legend and a System Carried Across BordersA table sits by the window of a training hall in Skopje. The woman standing a...
BasketballVietnamese Basketball 2045: From Passion to Sports IndustryAs I sat in front of the screen watching a Vietnamese Basketball Association...
International FootballRaphinha and Barcelona's Week of Hell: When a Muscle Becomes the Tactical Focal PointI still remember that Thursday morning in Nagoya, when the news from Brazil...
International FootballRayo Vallecano and the South Stand Closure: When the Rulebook Puts Spectator Safety Above Every NumberThe South Stand Does Not Fall Silent the Way an Empty Stand Does In Hanoi, I...
Domestic FootballComprehensive Assessment of Insufficient Information in Vietnamese Sports AnalysisComprehensive Assessment provides no usable source material. Article title,...
International FootballGöztepe set a three-wins-from-three target inside an away-heavy fixture runGöztepe entered the international break without a single win in the Süper Lig...
International FootballEmpty Files and Struck-Out Numbers: Three Decades of Verifying Football DataIn 2026, the data file on a 22-year-old Girona defender that I downloaded was...
International FootballEmpty Data, Full Report: The Trap Inside Football's Analytics IndustryOn the morning of August 12, 2026, in Incheon, I opened a fourteen-page PDF...
Table TennisWorld Table Tennis: The Void Behind China's ThroneIn Paris, when Fan Zhendong ended the men's singles final with a forehand loo...
EsportsVietnamese Esports Loses Not Because of Weakness, But Because We Train Like It's the Last CenturyI stood in the corridor behind the main stage of the Asian championship,...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Day 1: India's women open against Kazakhstan, and the value of a fixture nobody filmsThe Day 1 scoreboard at the 2026 Asian Games, on the morning of September 20,...
BadmintonSrikanth's Resurgence at 33: Victory Comes Not from Luck, but from Reading SpaceWhen the score was 11-15 in the first game, Kidambi Srikanth looked like a...
ChessChess Diplomacy: Sindarov's Handwritten World Cup Scoresheet Becomes a Gift Between Two LeadersI have followed elite chess for nearly four decades, but I have never seen a...
VolleyballTürkiye's Men's Volleyball Breaks into the World Top Six: A Generational Shift and the 2027 Draw ProblemLate September, the ceiling fan in Hai Phong turning slow and creaking, I was...
International FootballSouth Korea at the 2026 World Cup: Tactics, Data and What the Scoreboard Never TellsIn the 88th minute, from the stands of Estadio Akron in Guadalajara, I heard...
Domestic FootballDinh Bac and the Captain's Armband: The Three Seconds Before the Goal and the Test Named ThailandThe stands were not full. Dinh Bac stood at the edge of the penalty area, bot...
Domestic Football200 km and a Late Call-Up: Vietnam Enters ASEAN Cup 2026 Through a Squad EquationAt 13:00 on September 23, the plane carrying Vietnam's national team landed i...
VolleyballTürkiye's Sixth Place and the Draw Problem at the 2027 World ChampionshipI read the news brief about the Türkiye men's national volleyball team three...
