Avramovic looks for balance, Calisto seeks efficiency The Lions face Vietnam tonight at 7.30pm at the Jurong East Stadium in the Tiger Beer challenge Trophy, in what will be their last home match before they start their bid to defend the Asean crown in the AFF Suzuki Cup from Dec 5-28. Radojko Avramovic's side will travel [. Click to continue reading...

Singapore will take on Vietnam in the Tiger Beer Challenge Trophy on Wednesday, 26 November at Jurong East Stadium. Kick off is at 7.30pm. Click to continue reading...

Singapore fans will not expect any changes in the squad as Raddy has stated that he will pick the usual faces that had been with the Lions in the last AFF Cup and the recent World Cup Qualifiers. He will trim down the squad to 22 players and will be announce next week. Singapore will face Vietnam [.. Click to continue reading...

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Vietnam and Singapore ended in a goalless draw in Hanoi.Both team had equal chances but braces from the two respective goal keeper kept both team a clean sheet. Mustafic Fahrudin started the match despite arriving late to Hanoi due to his wife birth.Vietnam started the match well threatening the opponents defence. Click to continue reading...

SIngapore finished the tournament sitting root bottom of the table after they suffered another heavy defeats at the hand of the Aussie.Australia got away with a 6-0 scoreline. Whereas in Group A played yesterday,Myanmar down Laos 7-0 and qualify for the semi-final and will face Australia.Vietnam also secure their place in the last four as group [. Click to continue reading...

Singapore failed to take bronze after Vietnam Under 21 edge Singapore Under 21 1-0 with a goal in the 87th minute courtesy of Hoang Dinh Tung.Vietnam dominated the match but failed to convert most of the chances. Meanwhile,Iran clinched the trophy after beating Thailand 2-1 in the final held yesterday. Click to continue reading...

Vietnam will host Singapore in a friendly in Hanoi on October 14 as part of both nations' AFF Cup preperations. Click to continue reading...

HANOI – ASEAN champions Singapore will gear up for the defence of their regional title with a friendly against Vietnam, scheduled to take place in Hanoi on October 14. The last match between the two ended in a goalless draw when they met back in January 2007 in Singapore during the group stage of the AFF [. Click to continue reading...

Got this from the Vietnam FA websites. Group A Singapore 0-6 Iran Iran 1-0 Myanmar Singapore Under 21 need a win against Myanmar today to advance to the semi-final.Iran through to the semi-final. Group B Vietnam 4-2 Malaysia Malaysia 1-4 Thailand Thailand and Vietnam are through to the semi-final. Click to continue reading...

Singapore Under-21 team will be participating the competition that will be held on 20 September at Hue City,Vietnam.Singapore is grouped together with Iran and Myanmar in group B while Thailand,Vietnam and Malaysia are in group A. Top two teams in respective group will qualify for the semi-finals.Only three players in the Young Lions squad are in [. Click to continue reading...

The draw for the tournament was held today in Jakarta.

Initially there will be a qualification round in Phnom Penh featuring Philipines, Timor Leste, Cambodia, Laos and Brunei. The top two will then join the six seeded teams and fight it out for the AFF Championship in December.

Defending champions Singapore return to Indonesia who they beat in the the first leg of the final 3-1 back in 2005 at a wet Bung Karno if I recall

Group A -

Indonesia, Singapore, Myanmar, 2nd Qualifier

Group B -

Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, 1st Qualifier

Two venues are to be used in Indonesia, Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta and Jaluk Harupat in Soreang, West Java.

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After an ISL meeting on Tuesday it was announced the League will have a two or three week break during October to allow the national side to compete in the Merdeka Cup in Malaysia.

Typical stop start season here. Start July, stop August, start September, stop October, start late October stop December, start January. Click to continue reading...

For ages the Malaysian FA website has been announcing the Merdeka Cup which this year will take place in October. What is harder to ascertain is who will be participating.

Sterling detective work by some of the guys on the Kallang Roar message board has come up with this.

It looks like Bangladesh and Vietnam will be two of the teams taking part if the stories are correct. Click to continue reading...

Suzuki Motor Corporation will be AFF Cup title sponsor and will be name AFF Suzuki Cup 2008.The biennial event will be co-hosted by Thailand and Indonesia in December following a five-team qualifying tournament in Cambodia in October. Six team have qualified automatically for the AFF Cup 2008.They are Singapore,Thailand ,Malaysia,Vietnam,Myanmar and Indonesia. Click to continue reading...

Image of Ronaldinho with Brazil after a friendly match with Vietnam at the Hanoi My Dihn Stadium, Vietnam - August 1, 2008. Image courtesy of Newscom. Technorati Tags: ronaldinho,brazil soccer,vietnam soccer Share This Click to continue reading...

"I have never said that Ronaldo is a slave," he told reporters on Wednesday during a visit to Vietnam...........................!

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Sepp Twatter claims misquote Sepp Blatter has now denied ever saying his infamous Cristiano Ronaldo slavery quote. "I have never said that Ronaldo is a slave," Blatter told reporters on Wednesday during a visit to Vietnam. "But I said slavery... Click to continue reading...

Krung Thai Bank have signed Phnom Penh Empire's young Nigerian striker Ajayi Gdenga Samuel for $8,000.

Samuel also attracted interest from teams in Singapore and Vietnam. He has been with PPE for three years after learning his trade in an Nigerian academy.

PPE also report there has been interest in Chan Rithy and Keo Sokngom. Click to continue reading...

Although it's unlikely we will have any overseas guys back, so maybe not so easy.


Draw is on July and five teams in each group and two go through from each group.
THE SEEDINGS AND POTS

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
1. Japan 6.China 11. Click to continue reading...

Steven Wells' latest missive in The Guardian seeks to connect America's war since the 1960s with the war-like metaphors of America's version of football, which has become "America's game" in the past few decades. Given that the Pentagon is packed with officers brought up on American football; given that generations of American football coaches have bombarded [. Click to continue reading...

The sports media landscape in Asia changed dramatically on the weekend of 11-12 August as the English Premier League dropped from the schedules of many of its last remaining major free-to-air terrestrial television broadcasters. Promoters, who'd paid the EPL most of the record £625 million it received from foreign rights for 2007-2010, began to recoup their investment. Click to continue reading...

Spanish Primera Liga club Barcelona, is considering a tie-up with Vietnam V-League club Dong Thap for youth training, Joshua Thomson, Barcelona's marketing director, revealed to Thanh Nien during a visit to Ho Chi Minh City to meet Dong Thap officials. He said the club had been chosen because he had heard it had a good youth training program. "We have requested Dong Thap team send us all relevant Click to continue reading...

The Vietnam Football Federation has hired a Chinese male coach to lead Vietnam's national women football team for six months. Chen Yun Fat, 52, will help the team defend its title at the 24th South East Asian Games (SEA Games) slated for December in Thailand, local newspaper Pioneer reported. The team is scheduled to have a 10-day training session in Shanghai, China starting on 21 August and Click to continue reading...

Vietnam may play a friendly match against Spanish Primera Liga club Barcelona in Hanoi next May, Vietnam Football Federation's media department told Vienam News. VFF Chairman Nguyen Trong Hy met Barcelona's marketing representative, Joshua Thomson, in Hanoi last Sunday to discuss future co-operation between the two sides. During the meeting, Spanish representatives announced they will assist the Click to continue reading...

Host Vietnam beat Malaysia 1-0 in the final of the U-20 ASEAN Football Championship. The only goal of the match was scored by captain Duc Nhan in the sixth minute. In the semi-finals, tournament host, Vietnam beat Myanmar 3-1 while the stronger Thailand squad was unexpectedly defeated 1-2 by Malaysia. In that game all three goals were scored in the last minutes of the match. Click to continue reading...

Vice Chairman Dung of the Vietnam Football Federation has consulted members of the VFF Executive Board about investing about US$3.12 million to become a founding, one-percent shareholder of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Bank. According to VietNamNet Bridge, the VFF has been given a pirority opportunity to take up the share issue due its close ties with Dinh La Thang, Chairman of the bank's Board of Click to continue reading...

A Martin Hagele-led mission from German Bundesliga club Bayern Munich has arrived in Vietnam to join with The Cong Viettel to set up a joint venture football training centre in Hanoi. At a meeting on 1 July, a memorandum of understanding was signed by the two clubs under which selected Vietnamese youth footballers will train in both Vietnam and Germany. Click to continue reading...

The ASEAN Police Open football tournament 2007 was inaugurated at Hanoi's Hang Day stadium on 31 July with the opening ceremony followed by a match between Vietnam and Malaysia. The tournament's A group includes the host team, Laos, Myanmar, Yunnan (China) and Malaysia and is playing at the Hang Day stadium. The B groups is Thailand, Singaporea, Brunei and Cambodia, which are playing at the Thien Click to continue reading...

Argentine football legend Maradona has postponed his Asian tour, including a trip to Vietnam, for the third time, but his representative assured he would tour the country by the end of August. Maradona said he was mentally and physically exhausted and did not want to appear worn out in public, said Luis Lestani, CEO of Elemco Oversea Group, which manages Maradona's brand name globally. Click to continue reading...

Vietnam will host the ASEAN Police Football Open at Hanoi's Hang Day stadium and Nam Dinh's Thien Truong stadium from 31 July - 15 August. According to the Ministry of Public Security the tournament thas attracted nine teams representing China's Yunnan province, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and host Vietnam. First prize is 100 million VND, while the runner-up Click to continue reading...

A representative of the Vietnam Football Federation has stated that popular national coach Alfred Riedl will continue to guide the Vietnamese football team, rejecting the information from a newspaper of the United Arab Emirates that he will depart after the Asian Cup this month. Nguyen Lan Trung, PR manager of the Vietnamese football squad at Asian Cup 2007, said Riedl returned to Austria on July Click to continue reading...

Vietnam's fairy-tale run at the Asian Cup has come to an end, after they were beaten by Iraq in their quarter-final encounter at Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok.

Thousands of colourfully-attired Vietnam fans turned out in support of their team, but they made little difference as Iraq ran out comfortable 2-0 winners on the back of a superb individual performance from captain Younes Mohammed. Click to continue reading...

Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi was the hero for Japan as they beat Australia 4-3 in a penalty shoutout to progress to the semifinals of the Asian Cup.

The score was 1-1 at full time when John Aloisi's 70th minute opener was cancelled out by Naohiro Takhara from close range two minutes later. Australia then played the last 14 minutes with 10 men after Vince Grella was sent off for elbowing.

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The country of Iraq doesn't have much to bring it joy these days, however their national soccer team is trying hard to change all that. The Iraqi squad beat Vietnam 2-0 in first knockout round of the Asian Cup to advance to the semi-finals for the first time since 1976.

Hundreds of Iraqis swarmed out of their houses after the victory, waving their country's flag and honking horns as men and boys jumped on top of minibuses and other vehicles.

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