JAKARTA (29 Aug 2011) – Wim Rijsbergen, the chief coach of the Indonesia national team has demanded that his chargers improve on their ball possession after watching them lose 1-0 to Jordan in a friendly. The Indonesian national team are in Jordan in preparation for the third round of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers where…
There’s a whole raft of sayings about family resemblances: ‘like father, like son’; ‘just like her mother’; ‘it’s in the blood’, and so on. In the happiest cases, offspring inherit the finer points from their parents – mama’s blond hair or papa’s dark eyes, for example. If you’re unlucky, you might end up with an…
HANOI (29 Aug 2011) – The Vietnam Under-19 team preparing for the AFF U19 Championship next month could not have got a better preparatory ground than beating their Cambodian counterparts twice in a row. In the first match that was played at the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi, the Vietnam U19 squad scored a…
MANILA (28 Aug 2011) – The Philippines national team will soon get an artificial pitch of their own ending in Pasig City, giving the team more sense of permanence than what they are used to at the moment. Mariano ‘Nonong’ Araneta Jr , the president of the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) confirmed the grant approved…
BANGKOK (28 Aug 2011) – The FA of Thailand (FAT) have announced the squad which will take on Australia in the opening third round of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers. The game will be played at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on 2 Sept 2011. Other than Australia in Group D, the Thais will also…
HO CHI MINH CITY (27 Aug 2011) – The Vietnam national U23 football team will be playing in two tournaments as part of their preparations for the 26th SEA Games which will be hosted by Indonesia at the end of the year. The first tournament will be for the Ho Chi Minh City Cup that…