Michael GoossensMichael Goossens
China Smash 2026: Jha Loses Two Deuce Games to Matsushima as All Three U.S. Singles Fall in Round of 64Game three, 11-11. Kanak Jha stood behind the table, rolling the ball in his...
World Cup 2026: When Vietnamese Girls Wrote a LegendIn the 90+3rd minute at Eden Park in Auckland, the hearts of millions of...
Asiad 20, September 29: Sepak Takraw Gold and the Data Void in Vietnamese Athletics19:05. That was the scheduled start time for the men's and women's 4x400m...
The Empty Verdict: When Vietnamese Football Gets Analyzed by a Blank SheetA second-stage analytical report on Vietnamese football landed on my desk. Ni...
Kalshi Reports $1.73 Billion in Esports Volume: Growth Has Decelerated for Three Straight QuartersFour rows in my spreadsheet add up to $1.733 billion. Q4 2026 printed $44...
Chess in 2026: When Training Magazines Sell Star NamesIn 2026, a chess magazine launched with a headline inviting readers to “learn...
Decoding a Football Match: Nine Layers of Analysis Behind the ScorelineOn the night of June 30, 2026 in Kazan, France defeated Argentina 4-3 while...
Man Utd 1-1 Tottenham: Dropping Victory in the 92nd Minute and a Lesson in Game ManagementThe ball left the crosser's foot in the 92nd minute, and Old Trafford went...
Panathinaikos Spends €3M on a Dining Lounge: A Shared Meal or a Silent Weapon for EuroLeague Glory?The whole village is busy scrutinizing every basketball move, every shooting...
Sasipaporn's 8-0-18 Sequence: XMLS Thanh Hoa Bought a Hitter, Not a SystemEvery analysis of mine begins with a forgotten number. This time it is zero. ...
Asian Games 2026 Draw: India Meets Japan in the Quarter-finals as Seedings Lock the Medal PathOn September 19, in Aichi-Nagoya, the organizers of the 2026 Asian Games...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Bent Larsen on the Cover, Prague 2026 InsideInside the contents list of ChessBase Magazine issue 225, one line made me...
When the Report Is Empty: Lessons on Cash Flow and Power from a Season Without DataThe 2026 Formula 1 season is approaching, and the first thing I received from...
V.League 1: Read the Disciplinary Record to Understand the Title RaceIn the last three rounds of V.League 1, the average number of yellow cards pe...
The Empty Cells in Tennis Data and the Rhythm No Metric Can HoldIn the press room of a hard-court tournament in California, the screen mounte...
Manchester City's Seven-Win Run and the Eight-Week BillThe most quoted line from that press conference ran seventeen words: the only...
ChessBase #225: Four Annotators, 27 Miniatures, and a Headline That Doesn't Match the BodyOn the evening of 12 November, sitting in a coffee shop on Nguyen Chi Thanh...
BWF World Junior 2026: Tanvi Patri Leads India Into Cairo's 3×55 Format ExperimentIn 2026 I sat in front of a whiteboard in Seoul, redrawing Son Heung-min's...
Vietnamese Football 2026: The Season When the Referee Was the Only TechnologyMinute 88 of a 2026 Vietnamese national championship match, the score level,...
V.League Transfer Window: Release Clauses and Wage Bills Are the Real StoryThree hundred and twenty-one lines of rumor, eleven real contracts. That is t...
