JAKARTA (8 Jan 2011) – Indonesia national coach Alfred Riedl will not pick players from the illegal Indonesia Premier League (IPL) to form the new Under-23 team which will play in the Olympic Games qualifiers or the SEA Games at the end of the year. Riedl made the statement following the start of the two…
DILI (7 Jan 2011) Winston Lee of Singapore, Vietnam’s Tran Quoc Tuan won two of the seats from ASEAN while U Zaw Zaw from Myanmar retained his seat to complete the three spots in the AFC Executive Committee. Winstons earned 33 votes, Tran 30 and Zaw 23 – enough to see them earn their places…
There is no doubt that Oktovianus Maniani was one of the more exciting players to come out of the recently concluded AFF Suzuki Cup 2010. But the speedy winger, who earned his place in Alfred Riedl’s squad following the absence of Boaz Salossa, almost did not make the Indonesian national squad had it not been…
DILI (6 Jan 2011) – Datuk Worawi Makudi of Thailand has won a seat on the FIFA Executive Committee while HRH Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah of Malaysia was elected as one of four AFC Vice Presidents following the 24th AFC Congress today. There were two seats up for grabs with Datuk Worawi picking up…
SINGAPORE (6 Jan 2011) – Following what was felt as a disappointing year for the Lions, the FA of Singapore (FAS) have decided to disband the current national team with chief coach Radojko Avramovic to start afresh. Zainudin Nordin, the president of the FAS said that ‘to save the current situation’, drastic steps had to…
JAKARTA (5 Jan 2011) – The battle between the FA of Indonesia (PSSI) and the newly-formed Indonesian Premier League is heating up. Max Boboy, the legal director of the PSSI, said this week that players under contract to Indonesian Super League (ISL) clubs that are defecting to the rival IPL could leave their clubs without…