For years, the world has known the stretch of water between Arabian and Iran as the Persian Gulf. But the Arab population on the southern side calls it the Arabian Gulf, with the UAE Pro-League even being renamed the Arabian Gulf League this year. For ...

Massimo Luongo picked up the award for the tournament's MVP and with several man-of-the-match awards and crucial goals at important times in Australian games it's hard to say it wasn't deserved, even if the UAE's wonderfully talented midfielder Omar ...

Dominic Bossi. Best goal. Despite strong challenges from Tim Cahill and Ehsan Hajsafi, Luongo's spectacular long-range goal takes out the top gong of this tournament. It was not just the quality of the goal and the diverse set of skills involved in ...

On Friday, Al-Nasr won the Arabian Gulf Cup trophy after they defeated Al-Sharjah 4:1 in the final. However, Ivan Trichkovski was a healthy scratch from the 18 player matchday squad. The reason for that was the team's signing of Spanish winger Pablo ...

A potential distraction has emerged hours before Australia's Asian Cup semi-final against the United Arab Emirates, with Al Wahda claiming to have agreed a 'tentative deal' to sign Tim Cahill, according to media reports from the region. The Socceroos ...

Instead of scouring the Internet for the latest football transfer gossip, Bleacher Report makes your life easier by providing you with a weekly power ranking of the 25 hottest transfer rumours in one slideshow. Whether it is the Eredivisie, English ...

Iraq and the United Arab Emirates have been the surprise packages in this Asian Cup, both reaching the semi finals – admittedly through the fortunate medium of penalties. The former saw off the well-fancied Iranians (who played ... Wilkins, the ...

In just over three months, Meram has now been all over the world, including to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and, of course, Australia, where he saw wild kangaroos for the first time. Not that he's had time or the opportunity to do much ...

Not the United Arab Emirates. But it is the Emirates who have the two spiciest battles of the group stage, first against Qatar – who they frequently squabble with – and then against Iran. Tensions between the two nations have reached fever pitch over ...

It was not surprising then that the UAE were left sweating on the player's fitness after he injured his ankle in this year's Gulf Cup semi-final defeat to Saudi Arabia in November. UAE coach Mahdi Ali included him in the Asian Cup squad despite the ...