JAKARTA (8 May 2011) – Arema Indonesia, the defending champions of the Indonesia Super League (ISL) is for sale – for IDR20 miliar (USD 2.3 million). Arema president Rendra Kresna said this week that the current cub management has little choice but to put the cash-stricken club up for sale to a third party, possibly…
PHNOM PENH (7 May 2011) – Cambodia will be fielding a women’s team for the first time ever in the the AFC Festival of Football to be held in Vietnam on 1-14 June 2011. “It is an exciting development. We have never sent a U14 team to an international event before,” said Samuel Schweingruber, director…
BANGKOK (7 May 2011) – The proposed election for president of the FA of Thailand (FAT) was called off yesterday with the federation claiming that several member had more than one representative while others did not have proper ID cards. Incumbent FAT president Datuk Worawi Makudi and Pichate Munkong were the only two candidates although…
DILI (7 May 2011) – Football’s ruling body FIFA are investigating claims that over 300 matches on three continents were influenced by match-fixers, according to The Daily Telegraph. FIFA suspect match officials were paid as little as USD10,000 to help engineer specific results in international friendly matches and European club games, netting fixers hundreds of…
MANILA (6 May 2011) – The quarter-finals of the PFF-Suzuki Men’s U23 National Championship gets underway this week with Negros Occidental FA leading the chase for a place in the semi-finals. The Negros Occidental FA will battle three other regional finalists – No. 2 team from the National Capital Region, Mindanao regional finalist Zamboanga del…
HANOI (6 May 2011) – Former Thai international Dusit Chalermsan has decided to call it quits as the chief coach of former V-League champions Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL). His decision to leave the two-time (2003 and 2004) winners was a result of the back to back defeats HAGL suffered in their last two matches…