BANGKOK (4 Aug 2013) – With 46,000 tickets already sold over the weekend, a sellout crowd is expected when the Thai Under-23 team taking on FC Barcelona in a friendly in three days. The Rajamangala Stadium can hold up to 48,000 spectators. “We have already sold 46,000-odd tickets for the Barca match, with only a…
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (3 Aug 2013) –The National FA of Brunei Darussalam (NFABD) have appointed Dayem Ali as the chief coach and Mohammad Tunjang as the team manager of their Under-19 team for the AFF U19 Championship that will be held in Surabaya on 9-22 September. Dayem is the former coach of the Brunei U23…
JAKARTA (2 Aug 2013) – Rahmad Darmawan, the chief coach of the Indonesian national Under-23 team, said this week that the team will have only four days of preparation before playing Brunei in a friendly on 15 August in Jogjakarta. With the U23 players currently with their respective teams in the Indonesia Super League (ISL),…
HANOI (2 Aug 2013) – The Vietnam women’s national team will head to South Korea before they take part in the AFF Women’s Championship that will be hosted by Myanmar on 9-22 September. The defending champions will initiate a two-week physical training course in Da Lat City in Lam Dong before beginning their tactical lessons…
SINGAPORE (1 Aug 2013) – Bernd Stange, the chief coach of Singapore, has announced a squad of 23 players that will take on Oman for the AFC Asian Cup qualifiers on 14 August at the Jalan Besar Stadium. “It was not easy to finalise the squad but I am very pleased we have put together…
PETALING JAYA (31 July 2013) – The Malaysian XI completed their tour of Japan in the same humiliating manner as they had begun the previous week when they were humbled 5-0 by J-League’s Second Division side Tokyo Verdy tonight. The friendly was the team’s third and final friendly in Japan following their 2-0 loss to Shimizu…