DILI (19 March 2011) – AFC president Mohamed Bin Hammam has declared that he will challenge Datuk Seri Sepp Blatter for the FIFA presidency in June – opening a bitter fight for football’s top post. Hammam said that he decided to stand against the 75-year-old Blatter after ‘careful study’. “Today after careful study, consideration, armed…
JAKARTA (18 March 2011) – Alfred Riedl, the chief coach of Indonesia, has identified the 20 players to carry the challenge for the SEA Games 2011 which they will be hosting at the end of the year. At the same time he announced the obvious absence of winger Okto Maniani, the former coach of Vietnam…
YANGON (17 March 2011) – FIFA chief Sepp Blatter said this week that Myanmar could play a ‘very active role’ in the sport in Asia after he opened a new football academy in the country. Blatter, on his first visit to Myanmar, opened the academy in Mandalay ahead of a meeting with Premier Thein Sein,…
MANILA (16 March 2011) – Philippines made the qualifying round of the AFC Challenge Cup 2012 despite the 2-1 loss they suffered in the second-leg play offs this week in Ulan Bator. But with the 2-0 advantage they had from the first leg of the play-offs last month in Bacolod City, the team which is…
DILI (15 March 2011) – Playing in major football tournaments during the fasting month or Ramadan will be one of the mostly discussed topics in the 4th AFC Conference 2011 on Science and Football Medicine on 18-20 March 2011 in Kuala Lumpur. Prof. Ron Maughan from Loughborough University’s School of Sport in the United Kingdom…
BANGKOK (15 March 2011) – Muang Thong United scored their first win of the Thai Premier League (TPL) 2011 season under new chief coach Henrique Calisto when they beat Thai Port FC 2-0 at the Yamaha Stadium. Muang Thong were determined to put on a good show for the newly-appointed coach although it took a…