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Think Asian football, talk the education way

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Asia is unfortunate and fortunate in many ways. It is the largest inhabited continent in the world, and also with the largest population on the planet, nearly 4-5 billion people in a planet only has 8 billion. Asia is blessed and cursed by the diversity: it is the home to the three biggest religions: Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. Three major ancient civilisations resided in Asia. The continent is also destined to become the world's main economic hub. Yet, at the same time, war, destruction, social discontent and political clashes exist in many forms, causing instabilities. Think of Vietnam as a major example, it suffered nothing but wars, occupation and destruction throughout the entire 20th century. Leave alone Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. And this situation produces vast cultural differences as well as thoughts. This is embedded in many subjects, regardless of its stance. Football isn't an exception, but football is unique for its path to give Asians breath about it, and ...