Alvaro CortesAlvaro Cortes
The First Three Shots and the Data Gap in Vietnam's Youth Table TennisIn the last three matches of a young player at the national team table tennis...
Monza 2026: 57°C Heat Will Incinerate Teams' Tyre StrategiesI stood at the grandstand corner behind Parabolica on a September morning, an...
Elite Table Tennis in 2026: China Still Rules, Europe Rises, and the Points Race Has Never Been This BrutalThe first three seconds of any rally do not lie. The rest is just how we fool...
When Data Is Silent: Lessons From an Empty AnalysisEmotion is the reporter, data is the referee. This saying of mine, I still...
Vietnamese Football Enters the Data Era: When V.League Learns to Count with xG and PPDAIn V.League 1's most recent round, a match ended 1-1 in front of tens of...
The V.League Transfer Market: Pricing Players When Cash Flow Is ThinIn the transfer file of a V.League club, one line always makes me stop: the...
LA 2028 Men's Volleyball: Six Olympic Berths Are Sealed, and What the List Leaves Out Is the Real StoryOn my desk in Hanoi there is an A4 sheet divided into two columns. The left...
Uruguay Thrash India 6-1 in International Friendly: Anirudh Thapa Scores India's Consolation GoalThe international friendly between the Uruguay national team and the India...
Chess Olympiad 2026: India Defends Its Throne in the Heart of Uzbekistan, and the Gukesh – Sindarov DuelWhen the official schedule for the 46th Chess Olympiad was released, a small...
Fourteen Seconds in Rostov: A Heroic Epic Written in Japanese TearsI still keep the brown notebook, its spine worn, that I carried throughout th...
A Blocked Analysis During the Transfer Window: When Vietnamese Football Needs Data Instead of RumorsOn a Tuesday afternoon, I received a data file from the newsroom with an...
EWC 2027 Opens 400+ Qualifier Events: World Cup Slots and the Price of a Licensing SystemFour in the afternoon on a November day, in a borrowed hall at a secondary...
When the Analysis Is Empty: The Discipline of a Combat-Sports WriterThat night in Hai Phong, I reopened an analysis file and found it empty. No...
Three defeats, zero points: the 2029 AFC U20 door closes on Vietnam's U17 generationThe third match ended and I stayed by the tunnel a few minutes longer. On the...
Xuan Son's Hamstring Injury: Vietnam Shifts Its Attacking Axis to Williams Minh HoangMinute 57 and the Space Behind It In the 57th minute, Aguinaldo Amani arrived...
Hochart and the Architecture of an Unbeaten Title in AntibesOn the final day of competition in Antibes, Leana Hochart stepped up to the...
Four Meet Records Without a Single Mark: Reading a Sri Lankan Corporate Athletics MeetIn the bulletin sent from Diyagama there was one line that made me stop longe...
Patrik's Wounded Hand and Vietnam's Survival Gamble in JakartaThe left hand of Lê Giang Patrik struck the goalpost during a diving save....
ASIAD 20: Five Points and Two Days of Play — A Data Autopsy of Vietnam's PUBG Mobile Team51 points on day one. 44 points on day two. A 95-point total. On the second d...
Chinese Badminton Before the 2026 Asian Games: Two Golds, an Injury Map, and Silence on the Coaching BenchIn my trade, there is an unwritten rule: never trust what a federation says...
