INTERVIEW BY LEWIS STEELE: Luis Garcia knows all about miracles‚ given he was part of Liverpool's Champions League-winning team in 2005 that were 3-0 down at half-time of the Istanbul final. So the ongoing miracle of Malaysia‚ as we shall call it‚ is no surprise to the former Reds and Barcelona winger‚ who is now chief executive of a record-breaking team trying to be the biggest in south-east Asia. Johor Darul Ta'zim‚ or JDT‚ are on a world-record run of 113 domestic matches - and counting - unbeaten‚ with Garcia at the helm alongside the local crown prince and former Watford manager Xisco Munoz.

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JACK GAUGHAN IN SEOUL: The manager's office is no more. Converted into a meeting room these days‚ one still filled by an aura of the guy who bid a teary farewell three months ago. Those walls can talk and Enzo Maresca would rather do his just down the corridor instead. Maresca‚ the new Manchester City boss‚ has taken up permanent residence in the office previously held by a Pep of the Lijnders vintage rather than Guardiola. The decision‚ one of his first in the chair‚ represents a literal embodiment of the reset that Maresca has been preaching to his players during pre-season in Asia.

Gianni Infantino's hopes of surviving as FIFA president have been boosted after four Asian nations publicly backed him following the abolition of divisive plans to sell stakes in the World Cup. UEFA partnered with the North‚ Central America and Caribbean confederation (CONCACAF) and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to force Infantino to drop plans to sell a £3.1billion stake in the World Cup to private investors. UEFA and CONCACAF have since called on Infantino to quit - but their ploy to depose the Swiss football administrator has hit a roadblock after Kuwait‚ Qatar‚ Sri Lanka and Lebanon reiterated their confidence in his leadership.

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Gianni Infantino's divisive plan to sell stakes in the World Cup appears to be dead after the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) joined UEFA and CONCACAF in opposing the plot - and his senior adviser Carlos Cordeiro has also now quit in protest. Carlos Cordeiro‚ a retired American investment banker and senior adviser to Infantino‚ has resigned from his role at FIFA - becoming the first internal figure to do so.

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A court in Kazakhstan has sentenced three Belgian football fans to short prison terms for dressing up as the fictional movie character Borat during a Champions League match in the Central Asian country. A video broadcast on Kazakh television showed the trio wearing the trademark green mankinis - made famous by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's hit movie about a crude fictional TV reporter from Kazakhstan - during the stands of Tuesday's match between Kairat Almaty and Club Brugge. A court in the capital Astana said it had sentenced three Belgian citizens - identified only by their initials - to five days in jail on public order offences.

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