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Watching Ben Kantarovski last night was awesome as the young Jets player strode across Asia.
I could see the Green and Gold shirt on this young man for years to come. Another gem I'm sure.
But I also noted the impact of Jason Hoffman, Brodie Mooy, Adam D'Appuzzo, and in recent games Sean
Rooney and Marko Jesic.
There is always a last-minute move before the European transfer window slams shut at the end of
August but the latest deal to be made involving a South Korean star came so late that it will
actually take place at the start of 2010.
Ki Sung-yong has signed for Scotland titans Glasgow Celtic but will join the team next January.
With Melbourne's Kevin Muscat on his last legs, should they have kept Milicevic.
What a player? He's played a couple of A-League games, a couple of Asian Champions League games but
I'm desperate to see him sign for the full A-League season
Seeing him controlling the Newcastle back four in recent weeks, playing the ball from the back,
surging forward is joyous to watch.
Aidan Ormond
On-loan Perth Glory striker Matt Mayora is set to sign with Indonesian side Persipura Jayapura, a
club which has qualified for the 2010 Asian Champions League.
Mayora, 23, jets out to Jakarta on Wednesday for a medical with the club and has a one-year
contract on the table.
Jeonju is not all Bibimbap and pretty temples; it is also the home of the K-League pacesetters
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors. The team from the south-west hasn't made a huge impression on past title
chases but after four games of the season, the Motors, are, well, motoring and with Gwangju fans
enjoying the sight of their team sitting in second, it is a good time to be a football fan in the
region.
For at least two of South Korea's four representatives in the Asian Champions League, this week is
make or break time. The quartet stands at the halfway point of the group stage with three games
gone and three to go. With the top two in each group of four progressing to the second round, now
is the time to start picking up points.
The big European leagues have declared their champions and shut up shop for the summer. They won't
be back until August. So this is where we separate the fairweather footy fans from the die-hards.
The fairweathers will get distracted and find some other way to pass the time. The die-hards will
ask: What else can I [.
As the rainy season, hopefully, comes to an end, the football season in South Korea is just past
the halfway stage. It has been a very interesting and unusual campaign so far with some big fish
struggling down in the murky waters while minnows play around in unfamiliar waters near the
surface.
Usually, there is no smaller catch in the K-League than Gwangju Sangmu.
Saudi side Al-Ittihad Jeddah took a fantastic lead into the second leg of this Asian Champions
League Semi-Final.
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Pohang Steelers are just 90 minutes away from making soccer history. On Saturday night, the team
from Gyeongsang province could become the most successful club in Asia – ever.
The South Koreans meet Saudi Arabia's Al Ittihad in Tokyo in the final of the Asian Champions
League. The opposition also has two wins under its belt.
Asian Champions League, that is The Asian Champions League tie between Saudi Arabia's Al-Hilal and
Saba Battery of Iran last night was called off because of a sandstorm. While the closest the
Premier League's finest get to sand on a Champions League night is a sneaky trip to the Caribbean
if they collect enough yellow cards, [.
#espn #concacaf #soccer
Whether you're going to a (UEFA) Champions League viewing party, staying up tonight to see if
Puerto Rico can advance to the CONCACAF finals or trying to wake up after getting up in the early
hours to see the Asian Champions League, you'll have plenty of opportunities to see live soccer
today.
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Nationally we look at the A-League draw talk Asian Champions League and hear from Lawrie McKinna
and Matt Simon ahead of last nights 2-1 defeat to Kawasaki Frontale.
On the local show we hear from FFA Tech Director Han Berger.
The national team may never sit atop the FIFA world rankings, while most European fans remain
blissfully ignorant of the colourful crowds that pack into grounds to witness one of the most
evenly contested leagues in the world. But there's no denying that Japanese football is unique.
The J.
The group stage of the Asian Champions League concluded today, and a CONCACAF player figured in the
biggest result of the day, and one of the biggest upsets of the group stage. Indonesian side
Sriwijaya FC came back from 0-2 down to defeat Chinese team Shandong Luneng 4-2, which earned them
their first points in the group stage and eliminated Shandong in the process.
Please forgive that awful pun.
Needless to say, the FFA's mooting of a second-tier competition has been the hot issue in
Australian football over the past few days. It is a natural enough response to the draconian (and
largely political) new requirements put in place by the AFC regarding places in the revamped Asian
Champions League, and was bound to come onto the agenda at some point in any case.
Even the most diehard Adelaide United supporter would find it hard to argue that they deserved
their point against North Queensland last night. Not only did Ufuk Talay and Daniel McBreen hit the
woodwork for the visitors, but in the second half Adelaide were comprehensively outplayed at home,
as rarely before.
Today, our tifo series swings to Asia for the first time.
We check out Japanese fans at the Nabisco Cup (also known as the J-League Cup) final between
Kawasaki Frontale and FC Tokyo, held earlier this week.
This video is a little slow to get going, but there's some gorgeous colour, some impressive
banners, and generally well choreographed displays from supporters of both teams.
One last photo from this week's Japanese League Cup final, as FC Tokyo fans utilise some toilet
paper.
Photo credit: dokool on Flickr, via the Pitch
Invasion Photo Pool.
Related posts:
- Photo Daily: Nabisco Cup Final Kawasaki Frontale vs.
With most attention on the exploits of Pohang Steelers in the Asian Champions League and the
national team's friendly matches in Europe against Denmark and Serbia, the fact that the K-League
is about to embark upon its championship play-off series has almost gone unnoticed.
Six teams are still in with a chance of the domestic title.
At approximately 5.20pm on a chilly Saturday afternoon, the 2009 J. League champions will
thrust their glittering trophy into wintry Japanese skies.
Whether it is two-time defending champions Kashima Antlers left celebrating, or the trophy-hungry
Kawasaki Frontale, is the question still to be resolved.
Still recovering from the Socceroos debacle re:Kuwait..or maybe the current player exods?br /br
/Mark Bridge may be playing for Tianjin, Joel Griffiths against his club Newcastle Jets last week,
player exodus on the rise, but the Aussie clubs achieved good results in Asia this week.br /br /The
Mariners got a 2-2 draw in Tianjin and the Chinese side has spent some real money on new players
this season.
#usl #libertadores #soccer #concacaf
USL teams battled to the bitter end all the way through the CONCACAF Champions League. Last month,
Montreal held a late lead in Mexico against Santos Laguna before giving up two in stoppage time.
Last night, the Puerto Rico Islanders also were barely beaten.
Partly with the Socceroos' recent performances in mind, the mantra that a defensive posture is
absolutely necessary when facing peer opposition away from home is hardening into a truism for many
Australian football followers. Happily, two matches this week demonstrated quite clearly that this
dreary philosophy is not universal.
The dire fare served up on a beautiful spring evening between Nagoya Grampus and Newcastle Jets was
not a great advert for the 2009 Asian Champions League.
Just over 7,000 fans forsook the lively bars and stunning cherry blossom around Mizuho Stadium to
watch two poor teams struggle through a a J- v A-League bore draw.
It never works when a national coach is so openly contemptuous of the domestic league. Even as
the national team does well.
Pim Verbeek's success has the FFA and the media swooning but it has left the A-League owners
fuming. They point to his Eurocentric attitude in encouraging talented young players to leave the A
League and at the same time discouraging Socceroos from returning home from Europe.
The belittling of the A-League continues apace at SBS, with their blogger-in-chief now essaying an
apologia on behalf of Pim Verbeek, interspersed with various digs at the national competition. It's
becoming distinctly tiresome.
Perhaps Peter Turnbull's comments - coming in the wake of the Mariners' lamentable collapse against
Kawasaki last week - were on the harsh side.
Twelve games played. Seven defeats. Four draws. One win.
That's the record A-League clubs currently hold against their Japanese counterparts in the Asian
Champions League, with Australian teams struggling to hold their own against the might of the
Japanese game.
The trend continued this week when Central Coast Mariners lost for the second straight time to
Kawasaki Frontale, while Newcastle Jets missed a penalty in succumbing to Nagoya Grampus at home.
Mariners and Jets both needed wins in matchday 4 and despite some notable performances they both
flopped badly to Japanese sides.
Yes that's right the "technically better Japanese sides".
But maybe it's not the technical difference between the players that is so crucial to results
against Japanese sides.
"I think he's selling himself short, but I think it's a lifestyle decision." so says Chris Turner
Hartlepool manager talking about Joel Porter's decision to play for the Gold Coast.
No Chris, you blinkered Englishman, it's about the football:
He'll play alongside Champions League player Jason Culina,
He'll play at a Stadium Hartlepool can only dream of,
His first game will be in the Bird Nest Stadium in Beijing, followed by SunCorp in the League.
On a night when the football fans were salivating at the thoughts of a Ronaldo/Rooney v Messi show
down in the Champions League Final it was our own Rooney who excited me.
Chelsea gone, boring as they are, always have been in my view, is great news for football fans, the
self-appointed elites at SBS, and followers of things other than the all dominating EPL.
You just can't shut Ljubo Milicevic up.
Matthew Hall, now contributing articles to SBS's World Game website, presented the latest
rant from the Jets defender to the world yesterday. No references to gay discos this time, but
plenty of prolix bagging of Pim Verbeek. And again, Milicevic is getting a far more sympathetic
hearing than he deserves.
Let's hear it for the A-League. The A-Leagues worst club in Season 4, the Newcastle Jets, has made
it into the last 16 of the Asian Champions League with a strong display of tactical and technical
football
And they've been playing some great football in Asia. Why?
Because in Korea last night they didn't have to play on an Aussie cow paddock.
Like it's much-maligned English cousin, the League Cup in Japan is facing an image crisis. That's
nothing new for J. League officials, who for years have struggled with the competing interests of
Japan's biggest clubs.
A revamped Asian Champions League has brought the League Cup issue to a head.
Chinese league champs Shandong Luneng were knocked out of the Asian Champions League the other
day.
The club did not take it well. All the players on the team were fined.
Fined. For losing.
"Players have to display the spirit of improving as well as good results otherwise the
fans will never forgive them," Cui Faqiang, the club's deputy manager, told the Qilu Evening
Post.
Nearpost football hosts Russ and Aaron are convinced the Jets will lose, nay get pumped tonight
against the Pohang Denilson led Steelers in the Asian Champions League one-off last 16 game in
Korea.
I'm not. I think they can win.
Either way watching Ben Kantarovski, Jason Hoffman, Tarek Elrich, Brodie Mooy, Mark Jesic, Adam
D'Apuzzo, Kaz Patafta and Sean Rooney all young Aussies being tested on the continental stage is a
joy.
If there's one team that can stop the Kashima Antlers juggernaut from steam-rolling to a third
successive J. League title, it's Kawasaki Frontale.
The Kanagawa side geared up for an epic showdown with Kashima on Sunday by beating Gamba Osaka 1-0
at Todoroki Stadium in a rescheduled Round 10 fixture overnight.
What a week of exciting football action, MLS, Superliga, Recopa Sudamericana, Copa Libertadores,
Asian Champions League, and of course FIFA Confederations Cup. You know summertime is just as busy
as the fall, spring, and winter in football. Thankfully for us football lovers, its a year round
sport.
PERTH Glory are prepared to let star players Mile Sterjovski, Jacob Burns and Chris Coyne go on
loan to A-League rival Adeladie United, Foxsports has reported.
The trio all are chasing a spot in Pim Verbeek's Socceroo squad for the World Cup and Glory coach
Dave Mitchell has confirmed that he could loan them out to Adelaide for their Asian Champions
League matches next year.
It's an interesting little fact: in the first three A-League seasons, the winners of the season
curtain-raiser went on to claim the premiership. And with that in mind, Lawrie McKinna can afford a
little grin after last night's surprising result.
There were, in fact, plenty of parallels with the Mariners' dogged first-up win over Sydney FC in
the first round of the 2007/08 season.
