Joel Van Den BergJoel Van Den Berg
Volleyball2026 Men's Volleyball Club World Championship: Eight Teams, Four Continents, and the Gap That Never Shows on the ScoreboardOpening: what I counted before I read the stars' names On the day FIVB...
Domestic FootballVietnamese Football Tactical Analysis: A Nine-Dimensional Systematic Approach and Practical ChallengesIn a world of increasingly saturated football information, separating signal...
VolleyballOne Win Isn't Enough: India's Quarterfinal Hopes Rest on Oman vs Bahrain at AVC 2026At the Kitakyushu City Gymnasium on Tuesday night, roughly 6,500 Japanese fan...
EsportsVietnam-Korea PUBG Drama Escalates: Soopi Threatens to Quit, Demands Krafton Apologize, Vietnamese Streamers Delete Game in ProtestNot a single independent statistic has measured how many Vietnamese players...
International FootballMedical Records Don't Lie, Signatories Do: The Verification Gap in Modern FootballThe briefing reached my desk on a Friday afternoon, tagged "football." Inside...
Volleyball13-Year-Old Qatari Prodigy Scores 12 Points with 5 Blocks at Asian ChampionshipThe AVC Men's Volleyball Asian Championship is underway in Fukuoka, Japan. In...
International FootballNine Analytical Dimensions, Zero Data Points: The Discipline of a Transfer ReporterOne August morning, I opened the file on my screen and counted. Nine sections...
International FootballAC Milan's 0-3 Defeat to Bournemouth: The Fragile Defensive System and a Lesson from Grassroots FootballMinute 67 at the Vitality Stadium, the score was 0-2 in Bournemouth's favour....
International FootballA Red Card for the Algorithm: When a Video About a Mexican YouTuber Landed in the Football FeedIn a supermarket aisle, a man raised his phone and asked a direct question...
International FootballBayern Munich and the 'Communication Problem': What Jens Lehmann Says, What the 2029 Contract AnswersIn the 7th minute at Augsburg, I sat in front of the screen with my notebook...
Domestic FootballThe Magic Moves Handbook: Vietnamese Women's Football Begins With Six-Year-Old GirlsI sat in the last row of a small hall where the launch of a football handbook...
Domestic FootballV.League and the Data Gap: When Vietnamese Football Loses Its Analytical WeaponIn seven years of covering domestic football, I learned one thing: what is no...
VolleyballThe Ca Dong Girl, 150 Matches, and a Gold Medal Balanced on One Pair of ShouldersIn the second set of the 2026 national university volleyball final in Hai...
Table Tennis10-12, then 5-11, then 6-11: The Real Gap Between the World No.3 Doubles Pair and the Singles Draw10-12, Then 5-11, Then 6-11: The Real Gap Between the World No.3 Doubles Pair...
International FootballJJ Gabriel at 15: Real Madrid Lead, Barcelona Lose the Dream, and the Rule Nobody MentionsOn the morning of September 22, in my studio in Shenzhen, I read the morning...
BadmintonTwo Golds and the Silence Before the Roar in NagoyaThere is a sound I have never forgotten in thirty-four years of sitting besid...
Table TennisMoyland and Zhang Outlast Egypt to Reach the Round of 16 at China Smash 2026Sally Moyland and Lily Zhang of the United States defeated Hana Goda and Dina...
TennisAlcaraz's Return: What the Win Reveals About His Wrist and the ATP Schedule DebateNew York, Tuesday night – Carlos Alcaraz just finished his US Open second-rou...
EsportsFaker and South Korea's national postage stamps: when a state canonizes a legend who is still competingOn 23 October, Korea Post released a commemorative stamp set for Lee...
VolleyballAVC 2026 in Fukuoka: Japan and Iran Unbeaten, Chinese Taipei Break Through — and the Data Gap Nobody NamesIn the twenty-second minute of the third set, Yuji Nishida drove off the...
