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The Young Matildas will be playing in the ASEAN CUP in Thailand so they'll miss the big W-League
kick-off.
Sydney FC Coach Alen Stajic will also miss the Sydney opening couple of games. He's the YM Coach.
Apparently the AFC changed the dates. Great work AFC. One of the few National Women Leagues in Asia
and .
Group A:Singapore,Bahrain,Iran,Uzbekistan Group B:Korea Republic,India,Indonesia,Syria Group
C:China,Australia,Turkmenistan,Saudi Arabia Group D:Japan,Malaysia,UAE,Yemen Our boys have been
drawn alongside giants Bahrain,Iran and Uzbekistan.I think we are in the hardest group of all.The
team will be training in Japan to toughen up themselves for the competition.
Sunderland AFC has been rocked by the news that a member of Roy Keane's staff has passed away. Tim
Carter, youth academy goalkeeping coach, was found dead after he was reported missing from his
Durham City home. The body of the 40-year-was discovered in bushes by a passer-by in the Highfield
Close area of Stretford, Greater Manchester.
Picture courtesy of Jakartacasual Our under-16 boys will be heading to Japan this Thursday for a 2
weeks intensive centralized training in preparation for the AFC Cup Final that will be held in
Uzbekistan next month. However,they will miss eight players due to the 'O' and 'N' level
examination.Chief coach,Masanaga Kageyama,is determine that his boys will show [.
World Cup Qualifying begins in earnest this week in the CONCACAF region and come September
UEFA, AFC and COMNEBOL rejoin the fun. Beginning Thursday we'll have an extensive wrap up on all
Premiership footballers involved in CONCACAF qualifying. The big matchup this Wednesday is between
CONCACAF's two most talented sides: Mexico and Honduras at the [.
Asia. Football is teaching me all about the Asian cities and countries. If it's Tashkent it must be
Uzbekistan and THREE Canberrans, including Goulburns favourite player Chris Bush are included in
the Australian Under 16 side. FFA Release below.
Qantas Joeys Head Coach Martyn Crook has selected a 23 player squad to compete at the upcoming AFC
U16 Championships which will be held in Uzbekistan from 4-18 October 2008.
Maybe you've heard (though it's just as likely you haven't), but Liverpool have themselves a little
brother. If you've ever dreamed of 'a team full of Carraghers'... A nice, quick read from the
Guardian concerning AFC Liverpool.
All of Asia's major club football rivalries: Featured Derby: The Tehran Derby, Tehran, Iran
Esteghlal FC vs Persepolis FC World Soccer Magazine declared the Tehran derby as the most
important derby in Asia. First contested in 1968, Esteghal FC currently hold the advantage having
won 20 games compared to Persepolis's 15 victories.
Chris Bush and Ben Harrington have been selected to represent Australia Under 16.
The Australian Under 16 Football Team leave Australia on Wednesday to participate in an Asean
Football Federation Youth Championship in Jakarta from 9-19 July.
Coach Martyn Crook, has named 18 players to take part in the five team tournament which also
includes Bahrain, Malaysia, Singapore and host nation, Indonesia.
AFC Liverpool face their first ever competitive derby match on Wednesday in a cup tie against top
Liverpool side Waterloo Dock.
The 1st round Senior Cup tie takes place at Valerie Park, the home of Prescot Cables, who AFC
Liverpool are groundsharing with this season and kicks off at 7.30pm.
In this section, we give our take on one of the most hotly-contested issues in US Soccer. In a
brief September 8th article, we brought up the debate on the difficulty of CONCACAF away
Qualifiers, citing Ives Galarcep's "Hazards of road qualifiers" and Luis Bueno's
"Debunking the myth." While looking through Soccer by Ives this morning [.
Australia left it late to defeat Bahrain 1-0 in Manama in today's FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifier. A
draw seemed inevitable for a Socceroo side missing established stars such as Tim Cahill, Harry
Kewell and Joshua Kennedy. However in the fourth minute of stoppage time, veteran Marco Bresciano
popped up to score a winner that broke Bahraini [.
John Duerden at the Guardian has written a very interesting piece about Australia's
two-and-a-half-year marriage with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
A key quote:
"The couple may not be in love but have much to offer each other. The AFC got a high-profile,
wealthy and professional member, and, as Nan Yong hinted, protection against any future attempts to
reduce Asia's coveted four ½ spots at the World Cup.
Should we qualify for the next stage of the World Cup, we are seeded one. And with a little luck we could definitely miss Korea Rep (2) possibly Iran (3) and even Japan who could be seeded (5)
>so a likely scenario with a tad of luck could be Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan and Qatar or North Korea.
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KIT OF ALRIGHT!
Posted on: Thu 24 Jul 2008
Queens Park Rangers Football Club are delighted to unveil our new away kit.
The second strip, which will be worn by the R's First Team for our upcoming pre-season friendlies
at Falkirk and Kilmarnock, completes the brand-new collection of Lotto Sport Italia kit, following
the recent unveiling of our home and third strips.
Sam Munro and Dane Milovanovic featured in the Young Socceroos squad in the SBS tournament in
Japan. Results below.
The Qantas Young Socceroos have been defeated by Argentina 0-2 in their final match of the Shizuoka
Broadcasting System (SBS) Cup in Japan.
After a scoreless first half, Argentina scored midway through the second half with a well worked
goal before sealing the result with a goal from the penalty spot just before full-time.
New coach Mundari Karya has rang the changes to the Under 16 squad that recently underperformed at
the ASEAN Championships here in Jakarta as he perpares his side for the upcoming AFC Under 16
Championships to be held in Uzbekistan next month.
A series of friendlies have also been prepared to get the side ready for a tough competition where
they have been drawn with India, South Korea and Syria
06/09 v PS Urakan
11/09 v Persija Under 21
13/09 v Pelita Jaya
17/09 v United Arab Emirates
Can't help but let out a little cheer for the National Youth League which kicked off on the
weekend. Australia has been missing this development stage now for a few years and it is fantastic
to once again see a national comp for future Socceroos and A-League players.
Of course this first year is going to be pretty low key and I am not sure what the crowds are going
to be like but the point is that we will now have year round competition for our up and coming
youth.
Australia have been drawn with Turkmenistan, Chinese Taipei and Japan for the tournament to be held
in Bangkok, May 11-18.
Top 4 in the tournament qualify for the World Cup later this year in Brazil.
AFC details below.
BANGKOK: Asian futsal kingpins Iran were drawn in an easy group for the 10th edition of the AFC
Futsal Championship here in the Thai capital on Friday.
AFC are reporting:
Japan, Korea Republic, Australia, China, Indonesia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Iran and
India have been confirmed as participants, after a thorough assessment of their eligibility, in the
2009 AFC Champions League to be relaunched on completely professional lines.
Here is a look at how the AFC assessed Australia. The AFC article on this issue can be found here.
You can also access Brendan's view on the report here. Organisation - 13/20 In this category,
Australia obtained the worst score in the AFC. Our score was only 13/20 whereas basically all other
nations scored well.
Uzbekistan delivered a frightening and absolutely sensational performance as they hammered
Singapore 7-3. The fourth Uzbek goal was top-class: Here are some quick thoughts on the game: For
the first 30 minutes, Singapore showed absolute dogged determination against their technically
superior opponents and came back to equalise twice after being down.
Just got a text from Keano chastening me for the blog neglect lately. Sorry, babe. I admit, the
past week I've gone way overboard on the whole Oranje thing, but you know my heart is still big ol'
red and white stripes. And it's been pretty quiet over at Sunderland AFC, as we wait for those big
Brazilian/Portuguese/Croatian superstar signings that are just around the corner.
Heather Garriock and Collette McCallum nominated, but unlikely to win this year I reckon. AFC
Release below.
KUALA LUMPUR: Two players each from the semi-finalist teams of the recently concluded AFC Women's
Asian Cup figure in the first list of contenders for the coveted AFC Women's Player of the Year
award released by AFC today.
Big smile on my face right now !
In the end the draw was not prefect but it isn't far from it. As the young lady from the AFC was
preparing to select the teams from the final pot tonight I looked at the two groups and said a
quick little prayer for Group A. And it seems for once the God of Draws smiled upon us.
AFC World Cup Qualifier Round 4 Tonight at 7pm our time in Kualar Lumpur, the draw for round 4 of
the World Cup Qualifiers took place at AFC house. The final 10 teams were split into 2 groups of 5,
with the top 2 teams of each group qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South [...]
The new amateur football club AFC Liverpool has been backed by Liverpool FC managers past and
present Rafael Benitez and Kenny Dalglish.
Kop favourite Dalglish sent a personal email to AFC Liverpool Chairman Alun Parry to support the
venture, which is aimed at keeping those priced out of Premier League football within the Liverpool
family.
AFC has implemented a new 3+1 rule where Asian clubs are now able to include another foreign player
but the slot must go to an Asian player. Singapore may benefit from this has some top Asian clubs
may now seek players from other asian nation.Singapore has some quality players that can succeed
such as Hariss Harun,Mustafic [.
AFC President wants Wellington Phoenix out of the A-League in 2011 because they are a New Zealand
side.
And undoubtedly this would be great for Canberra..providing an extra place...
but I say no! The Phoenix must stay.
They've proved their worth, have spent millions getting the team going, made a huge mistake not
starting a Canberra Youth Team franchise this year, but have made significant signings in Jon
McKain, Andrew Durante and now FRED!
Football / Headquarters: Singapore interested! The Football Association Of Singapore has declared
interest to bring the AFC to Singapore and joined Qatar and UAE in pursuit to house the
headquarters. Given the scarcity of land in the city state, it will be interesting to see whether
Singapore has a chance as among the minimum criteria the [.
Happen to be at Jalan Besar Stadium and saw these two notices
The top is a notice to inform the public that the plastic surface of the stadium will be closed for
upgrading from 7/12/2008 -31/1/2009.
While the second notice (before the first) informed the national team's upcoming home schedule will
be played on the 28th January 2009, against the Jordanians in the Asian Cup qualifiers.
The Aussie World Cup schedule is a "ball-buster," according to Socceroo Jason Culina
interviewed by SBS this week.
If Australia get through the next four June World Cup Qualifiers we have six games against the
likes of Japan, Iran and Uzbekistan all before December.
Six!
Ban the Chinese
Adelaide United qualified for the next leg of the Asian Champions League. A hard, nervy fought 0-0
draw was enough. For me the best player on the park was Aurelio Vidmar, closely followed by Nathan
Burns. A great result for Adelaide and Australia.
But what about the Changchun fans.
Uzbekistan delivered a frightening and absolutely sensational performance as they hammered
Singapore 7-3. The fourth Uzbek goal was top-class: Here are some quick thoughts on the game: For
the first 30 minutes, Singapore showed absolute dogged determination against their technically
superior opponents and came back to equalise twice after being down.
The latest FIFA rankings came out last Wednesday and it seems Australia has move up 8 places to be
now ranked at the 35th best team in the World. We have also moved ahead of Japan to be the number
one ranked team in the AFC.
Does it mean anything though?
The ranking system is a complex formula that takes into account matches from the last four years,
each year receives a different weighting and results in each year are averaged.
Korea DPR beat out China 2-1 in the final of the 2008 AFC Women's Championship, regaining the title
the lost to Asian rivals China two years ago. Japan also edged out Australia to place third.
China initially took the lead through a strike by Bi Yan in the 11th minute, but ...
http://www.the-afc.com/eng/articles/viewArticle.jsp_167182878.html
TOKYO: Japan's men's and women's Olympic teams will play two friendlies against Australia and
Argentina to prepare for the August Beijing Olympics.
The Japanese men's team will face Asian rivals Australia in Hyogo on July 24, preceded by the clash
between the women's teams of both the countries.
AACTAS players Chris Bush and Ben Harrington have made the Joeys for the upcoming AFC Under 16
Champs in Jakarta. ACTAS release below.
Two ACT Academy of Sport (ACTAS) Footballers selected onto the Qantas Joeys
Football Federation Australia (FFA) has just confirmed that ACTAS Player's Ben Harrington and Chris
Bush have been selected onto the Australian National Under 16 Team for the upcoming AFF U16
Championships, Jakarta Indonesia.
David Johnson has hailed the formation of AFC Liverpool and believes the club could prove to be the
modern day alternative to the 'boy's pen.'
The former Reds striker feels the new non-league outfit - who will be playing at Prescot Cables'
Valerie Park Ground next season in the Vodkat League - will give supporters with children more
chance to afford tickets and, most importantly, provide them with an opportunity to learn the
'Liverpool way.
Sunderland manager Roy Keane is finally back in the office and speaking to the press. Personally, a
month without Keano-speak is 29.5 days too long for me. And as always, Roy has something
interesting to say: this time about the thirst for success that is driving his management
ambitions.
