SINGAPORE (20 March 2011) – The Singapore Olympic team fell to a 2-0 loss to Yemen in the first leg qualifiers that was played at the neutral venue of the Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium in Al-Ain in the United Arab Emirates. Goals from strikers Aiman Salleh and Mohammed Al Khadher gave Yemen the win where…
JAKARTA (20 March 2011) – The FA of Indonesia (PSSI) have slated 29 March 2011 in Riau for the much awaited Congress to decide on the chairman and vice-chairman for the next term of office 2011-2015. The PSSI have been instructed by FIFA to host their Congress before 30 April 2011. But before can hold…
DILI (19 March 2011) – AFC president Mohamed Bin Hammam has declared that he will challenge Datuk Seri Sepp Blatter for the FIFA presidency in June – opening a bitter fight for football’s top post. Hammam said that he decided to stand against the 75-year-old Blatter after ‘careful study’. “Today after careful study, consideration, armed…
JAKARTA (18 March 2011) – Alfred Riedl, the chief coach of Indonesia, has identified the 20 players to carry the challenge for the SEA Games 2011 which they will be hosting at the end of the year. At the same time he announced the obvious absence of winger Okto Maniani, the former coach of Vietnam…
YANGON (17 March 2011) – FIFA chief Sepp Blatter said this week that Myanmar could play a ‘very active role’ in the sport in Asia after he opened a new football academy in the country. Blatter, on his first visit to Myanmar, opened the academy in Mandalay ahead of a meeting with Premier Thein Sein,…
MANILA (16 March 2011) – Philippines made the qualifying round of the AFC Challenge Cup 2012 despite the 2-1 loss they suffered in the second-leg play offs this week in Ulan Bator. But with the 2-0 advantage they had from the first leg of the play-offs last month in Bacolod City, the team which is…