Jita Singh, Senior Head of Game Development (FA of Singapore), answers some questions on the FAS youth programmes. 1. How many national-age group teams are there in the National Football Academy (NFA) set-up? Jita: Unlike other Football Associations which usually have three national age group teams, the FAS have through our National Football Academy established…
HANOI (25 June 2012) – An own goal from Mozambique’s Manuel in the second half saved 2008 ASEAN champions Vietnam the blushes in a friendly that was played at the My Dinh National Stadium. Playing in front of their home fans was scant motivation for Vietnam as they failed to make good on the several…
SINGAPORE (24 June 2012) – The Singapore U22 squad will have a lot of tweaking to do following their 4-2 loss to the Young Lions in a friendly this week. There are only two weeks left to their participation in the qualifying round of the AFC Under-22 Asian Cup that will be held in Pekanbaru,…
SINGAPORE (24 June 2012) – It was a day of contrast for the two Singapore teams on the opening day of the 24th edition of the Lion City Cup yesterday at the Jalan Besar Stadium. As the Singapore NFA under-16 side clawed back to win 2-1 over AFC Ajax’s U15, the Singapore NFA U15 team…
YANGON (23 June 2012) – Myanmar and Cambodia were the only two teams from ASEAN to begin their campaign on the right note on the first match day of the qualifying round of the AFC Under-22 Asian Cup tonight. Host Myanmar, playing in Group G thrashed the Philippines 5-1 in Yangon as Cambodia playing in…
HANOI (22 June 2012) – The Vietnam national Under-22 team beat their counterparts from Thailand 2-1 in a friendly in Bangkok which also saw two players being sent off. Both players were from Vietnam and they were Le Quoc Phuong, who was red carded in the first half while the other is Nguyen Van Thuan,…