Malaysia
PETALING JAYA (3 August 2017) – The Malaysian Under-23 team received a boost this week when sports-loving Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, the Sultan of Johor, gave the team a RM4 million (USD 935,000) gift for qualifying for next year’s AFC Under-23 Championship in China. Malaysia defied the odds to qualify for the tournament as group winners. The…
PETALING JAYA (31 July 2017) – Farahiyah Mohd Ridzuan, the captain of the Malaysian women’s Futsal team, believes that a gold medal is within the team’s reach even though the FA of Malaysia (FAM) has set a target of just winning a bronze at the SEA Games next month. Futsal – either men or women…
PETALING JAYA (20 July 2017) – The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Appeal Committee has met and ruled on a number of appeal cases and where they have re-addressed the issue of JDT’s Mohd Farizal Marlias, who was slapped with a year’s ban in early June 2017 for his behaviour in an AFC Cup match. In…
SHAH ALAM (14 July 2017) – The Malaysian Under-22 got just the right tonic ahead of the qualifying round of the AFC Under-23 Championship when they beat their counterparts from Myanmar 2-0 in a friendly that was played last night at the Shah Alam Stadium. The Malaysians, who have had a well-documented issue with the…
PETALING JAYA (12 July 2017) – The FA of Malaysia (FAM) have appointed former Dutch international Peter De Roo as their new Technical Director. The 48-year-old De Roo will begin his new post on 1 September 2017. Having played professionally for12 years in Holland with clubs BV Veendam and also SC Cambuur, De Roo then…
JOHOR BARU (20 June 2017) – Portuguese Ulisses Morais has been named as the new head coach cum manager of three-time Malaysian Super League champions Johor Darul Takzim – just hours after caretaker coach Benjamin Mora’s stint ended with the Southern Tigers on Monday. Morais comes with vast experience having coached a string of clubs…