JAKARTA (3 Feb 2012) – Persipura Jayapura received a boost this week when the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled that the ISL 2011-2012 champions should be allowed into the AFC Champions League 2012. In a ruling by a three-judge panel this week, the CAS provisionally granted Persipura’s appeal against the FA of Indonesia…
HANOI (2 Feb 2012) – A football for free community programme has been initiated in Vietnam with the youth exposed to the same programme as Barcelona’s La Masia Academy. Players between the age of 6 to 14-years-old will be exposed to the training method through a partnership programme between FC Barcelona, the Vietnam Football Federation…
JAKARTA (31 Jan 2012) – The FA of Indonesia (PSSI) have announced the squad of 30 players which will be in training in preparation for their final 2014 World Cup qualifying match against Bahrain on 29 February 2012. After five matches in the qualifiers, the Indonesians have yet to pick up a point. The team…
MANILA (31 Jan 2012) – The Philippines national team have confirmed three friendly matches in their tour of the Middle East next month which will also include a match against the Australian Olympic team. The Azkals will play their first friendly against Uzbekistan on 11 February 2012 at the Al Maktoum Stadium in Oud Metha,…
PHNOM PENH (31 Jan 2012) – A late strike from Shin Beom Seon gave Ulsan University a hard fought 2-1 win over the Cambodia Under-21 team at the National Olympic Stadium. The two teams had earlier battled to a 3-3 draw in their first friendly. But this time round, the South Korean side were more…
DILI (30 Jan 2012) – Zhang Jilong, the acting president of the AFC, has reiterated the importance of a favourable reconsideration of the headscarf rule by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), which meets on 3 March 2012 in London. Jilong, a FIFA Executive Committee member, expressed the AFC’s unwavering support for this review, which…