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The 2012 OFC Nations Cup will be the most important football tournament to be held in the
Oceania region for many years. As well as playing for continental glory, the competition also
doubles as the second round of qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The top four teams will go
on further in the World Cup qualifying process whilst a place in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup
will also await the team who triumphs in the Nations Cup final on Sunday, June 10th.
Entre el 1 y el 10 de junio se disputa en Honiara, capital de las Islas Salomón, la OFC Nations
Cup, el torneo de selecciones más importante de Oceanía. Se juega cada cuatro años. Además,
esta edición oficia como segunda ronda eliminatoria para la Copa del Mundo Brasil 2014.
Aunque el torneo se jugó en 1973 y 1980 la verdadera edición que fundó oficialmente el
campeonato fue la de 1996.
SINGAPORE - Jakarta's Gelora Bung Karno Stadium is one of Asia's most inhospitable venues for
visiting teams, but even the vitriol spat from 100,000 partisan fans did not faze Nazmi Faiz when
Malaysia upset hosts Indonesia to defend their men's under-23 football gold medal at last
November's SEA Games final.
Tras su debut victorioso sobre Recia (o
Raetia, exprovincia del Imperio Romano) el
seleccionado de las Islas Chagos se presentó el 5 de mayo de 2012, con un triunfo 3-1 sobre el
Principado de Sealand, partido disputado en el pequeño estadio del Godalming Town FC, en
Godalming, Surrey, Inglaterra.
Football Federation Australia is "ramping up" preparations for the AFC Asian Cup 2015 with the
appointment of new members of the Local Organising Committee (LOC). The tournament is the pinnacle
event of the 46 nation Asian Football Confederation, the largest affiliated continental constituent
of the world football body, FIFA.
Football Federation Australia is "ramping up" preparations for the AFC Asian Cup 2015 with the
appointment of new members of the Local Organising Committee (LOC). The tournament is the pinnacle
event of the 46 nation Asian Football Confederation, the largest affiliated continental constituent
of the world football body, FIFA.
Tuesday's dueling news conferences offered viewers a microcosm of the twisting tale that is
Indonesian football.
Amid the hubbub over the sensational arrival of former national team coach Alfred Riedl, the
Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) suddenly shifted course and said it would once again allow
players from the breakaway Indonesian Super League to turn out for the Merah Putih.
Eleven Singapore players will not only carry the hope of the nation, but also with one aim to prove
a point.
The point to prove that, despite their physical disabilities, they are still able to enjoy the
beautiful game like their able-bodied peers when they are set to take on teams from Iran, Australia
and others that included the host nation, United Arab Emirates in the first Dream Asia Cerebral
Palsy (CP) Tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
A few weeks after an ominous Leeds United debut, Robbie Rogers is back in action.
The American winger played in a club friendly against Carlisle United and scored on Tuesday,
marking his return to the field for Leeds after suffering a concussion in his debut on Feb. 18.
After coming on as a 79th-minute substitute, Rogers clashed heads with Doncaster Rovers' Tommy
Spurr on a 50-50 ball and had to be taken off in stoppage time.
ASIAN soccer officials are tonight expected to deliver a verdict on whether Adelaide
United was in breach of the regulations after fielding Cassio last week.
Asian Football Confederation officials tonight told AdelaideNow a decision will handed down
tonight .
The Brazilian featured in the club's AFC Champions League qualifier against Indonesia's
Persipura last Thursday but there was a question mark hanging over his appearance.
Japanese J. League Division 1 club Nagoya Grampus (Japanese: 名古屋グランパ) is back in the
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) after a one-year absence. Last season's second-placed J1
finisher is pooled with...
The Australians are still feeling their way round Asian football and how it operates; or often
doesn't. Take Adelaide United. There they were happily looking forward to playing in the Asian
Champions League when all of a sudden they are being told that they now have to play a play off
against Indonesian champions Persipura.
Lausanne, 1 February 2012 The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has decided to grant
the provisional measures requested by the Indonesian Football Club Persipura Jayapura and to order
the reinstatement of the club in the AFC Champions League 2012.
Persipura was supposed to play the 2012 AFC Champions League Playoffs (East-Zone) on 11 February
2012 against Adelaïde United FC (Australia).
SHAH ALAM - Malaysia Super League (MSL) champions Kelantan are in the frame to face V
Sundramoorthy's LionsXII in the opening game of the 2012 season, but the fixture will only be
confirmed next Wednesday.
Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) vice-president Datuk Hamidin bin Haji Amin told TODAY that
while they have drawn up a tentative schedule of fixtures, they will only be released after a final
round of checks of stadiums this week.
SHAH ALAM - Malaysia Super League (MSL) champions Kelantan are in the frame to face V
Sundramoorthy's LionsXII in the opening game of the 2012 season, but the fixture will only be
confirmed next Wednesday.
Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) vice-president Datuk Hamidin bin Haji Amin told TODAY that
while they have drawn up a tentative schedule of fixtures, they will only be released after a final
round of checks of stadiums this week.
Keep calm and read on, Kickettes. Image Credit: AP.
Sadly, it was anything but quiet on the news front for us this past weekend, but as always,
we're ready and willing to help you bounce back into work action.
Although if you require posts in addition to this one, know that we'll only resume work upon
receipt of our mandatory compensation (in this case that would be Thanksgiving leftovers from our
U.
Hidetoshi Nakata is getting more press after his retirement than he did during his whole entire
career. For those of you who don't know, Nakata is one of Asia's most famous footballers. In 1995,
he started his career with Bellmare Hiratsuka, now called Shonan Bellmare. During his time in the J
League, he won the Asian Football the Asian Football Confederation Player of the Year award in 1997
La eliminatoria de la
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) otorga 4 plazas directas a la Copa
del Mundo Brasil 2014 más un repechaje contra el seleccionado ubicado 5° en la zona
sudamericana.
De los 43 equipos asiáticos inscriptos (Bhután, Brunei-Darussalam y Guam no lo hicieron), los 38
ubicados en los puestos más bajos del ranking disputaron dos rondas preliminares entre junio y
julio de 2011:
PRIMERA FASECamboya - Timor Oriental - Afganistán - Sri Lanka
Pakistán - Mongolia - Guam - Taiwán 29/6: Camboya 4-2
Laos3/7:
Laos 6-2 Camboya
29/6:
Nepal 2-1 Timor Oriental
2/7: Timor Oriental 0-5
Nepal29/6: Afganistán 0-2
Palestina3/7:
Palestina 1-1 Afganistán
29/6: Sri Lanka 1-1
Filipinas3/7:
Filipinas 4-0 Sri Lanka
29/6:
Bangladesh 3-0 Pakistán
3/7: Pakistán 0-0
Bangladesh29/6: Mongolia 1-0
Myanmar3/7:
Myanmar 2-0 Mongolia
29/6:
Vietnam 6-0 Macao
3/7: Macao 1-7
Vietnam29/6:
Malasia 2-1 Taiwán
3/7: Taiwán 2-3
MalasiaSEGUNDA FASELaos - Bangladesh - Palestina - Turkmenistán - Yemen
Nepal - Tayikistán - Kirguistán - Vietnam - Filipinas
Maldivas - Malasia - Myanmar - India - Hong Kong 23/7:
China 7-2 Laos
28/7: Laos 1-6
China23/7:
Líbano 4-0 Bangladesh
28/7: Bangladesh 2-0
Líbano23/7:
Tailandia 1-0 Palestina
28/7: Palestina 2-2
Tailandia23/7: Turkmenistán 1-1
Indonesia28/7:
Indonesia 4-3 Turkmenistán
23/7:
Irak 2-0 Yemen
28/7: Yemen 0-0
Irak23/7:
Jordania 9-0 Nepal
28/7: Nepal 1-1
Jordania23/7: Siria 0-3
Tayikistán28/7:
Tayikistán 3-0 Siria
23/7:
Uzbekistán 4-0 Kirguistán
28/7: Kirguistán 0-3
Uzbekistán23/7:
Qatar 3-0 Vietnam
28/7: Vietnam 2-1
Qatar23/7:
Kuwait 3-0 Filipinas
28/7: Filipinas 1-2
Kuwait23/7:
Irán 4-0 Maldivas
28/7: Maldivas 0-1
Irán23/7:
Singapur 5-3 Malasia
28/7: Malasia 1-1
Singapur23/7:
Omán 2-0 Myanmar
28/7: Myanmar 0-2
Omán23/7:
Emiratos Árabes Unidos 3-0 India
28/7: India 2-2
Emiratos Árabes Unidos23/7:
Arabia Saudita 3-0 Hong Kong
28/7: Hong Kong 0-5
Arabia SauditaTERCERA FASEGRUPO AChina - Irak - Jordania - Singapur 2/9/2011: China
2-1 Singapur
2/9/2011: Irak
0-2 Jordania
6/9/2011: Jordania
2-1 China
6/9/2011: Singapur
0-2 Irak
11/10/2011: China
0-1 Irak
11/10/2011: Singapur
0-3 Jordania
11/11/2011: Irak
1-0 China
11/11/2011: Jordania
2-0 Singapur
15/11/2011: Jordania
1-3 Irak
15/11/2011: Singapur
0-4 China
29/2/2012: China
3-1 Jordania
29/2/2012: Irak
7-1 Singapur
Posiciones:
Irak 15 (+10);
Jordania 12 (+4); China 9 (+4); Singapur 0 (-18).
By CALEB SONNELAND
All is not well in London — more specifically, at Arsenal.
The club confirmed today that long-time regular right back Bacary Sagna suffered a broken leg in
Arsenal's 1-2 defeat at the hands of Tottenham in the North London derby on Sunday.
By Alan Duffy
The Anfield hero and homophobic abuser of Graeme Le Saux is to take that big step from playing
to managing after being named as Muangthong United boss.
Fowler joined the Thailand Premier League club in a playing capacity this year, signing a
one-year deal, after knocking around the Australian A-League for a while.
Photo by Michael Janosz/ISIphotos.com
David Beckham has a few teams circling in the water for his services once his contract with the
Los Angeles Galaxy expires at the end of this MLS season, and Paris-St. Germain is the latest to
express an interest.
PSG's sporting director, Leonardo, who worked with Beckham when they were both at AC Milan,
addressed the possibility of bringing him to France, saying that "the door is open" and that he
"would always consider him.
Former FIFA Executive Committee member, Asian Football Confederation president, and FIFA
presidential candidate Mohammed Bin Hammam's appeal of his lifetime ban was rejected by FIFA's
Appeals Committee. The decision was announced on Thursday. Bin Hammam has previously promised to
take his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, with the expectation that his appeal within
FIFA would be unsuccessful.
The Asian Football Confederation seem very often to be the proverbial paper tiger. Lot's of tough
talk rarely equates to any tough decisions or action being taken.
They are very adept at ensuring some regulations are followed strictly to the letter while happy to
shut their eyes to more serious misdemeanours.
SOURCE: REPUBLICASpeaking at the same press meet, ANFA President Ganesh Thapa said that
Nepal had a tough time securing the chance to host the final round of AFC Challenge Cup scheduled
for April 2012. Along with Nepal, Maldives and Palestine, which boast of better infrastructure than
Nepal, had also filed their bids to host the final round of tournament.
All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) President Mr. Ganesh Thapa was elected as vice-president of
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) during the 24th AFC Congress held in Doha, Qatar on Thursday.
This is the first time in the history of Nepalese football where Mr. Ganesh Thapa is elected as a
Vice- President in the Asian supreme football body.
Union
With lone Union representative Faryd Mondragon on a MLS roster coached by and littered with
Energy Drinks and other all-too-easy ho-hum selections, not to mention that fact that the Dragon
isn't starting, does anyone around these parts really give a toss about the All-Star Game?
At first, the only kind of Philly related All-Star story Union fans seem to be able to expect is
a retread of the Beckham/Mondragon meeting at the 1998 World Cup kind of story MLSsoccer.
Banned Ex.Co. member Mohamed Bin Hammam has slammed Sepp Blatter and Chuck Blazer following his
expulsion from football last week.
He compared Blatter to a tyrant wiping out his rivals and called for Blazer to go before the FIFA
Ethics Committee for receiving suspicious payments.
Bemoaning his life ban from football, the former Asian Football Confederation chief told Sky News,
"This is the act of the dictators and we have witnessed this through history.
COPA AMERICAThe All-Guay Finale for the 2011 South American championship ends in decisive victory for
Uruguay.
FinalJonathan Wilson of the Guardian sees Uruguay as Golden.
Tim Vickery of the BBC sees Uruguay's present and future as being very bright.
Image: MCFC.co.uk.
Saturday
- Jealous that their team-mates were getting their fair share of physically-bothersome advances
whilst on tour, MCFC's Edin Dzeko and Alecks Kolarov decided it was time to ditch their shirts once
and for all (during their club's beach party in L.
By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Jul 21, 2011) US Soccer Players -- For those of you with better
things to do on Saturday, you might have missed the FIFA Ethics Committee's announcement. Streamed
live for those of us not in Zurich, chairman Petrus Damaseb announced that once upon a time FIFA
presidential candidate and suspended Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam has
been banned for life after being found culpable in a votes.
The FIFA Ethics Committee formally found Mohamed Bin Hammam guilty in a votes for bribes scandal on
Saturday, receiving a lifetime ban and ending his association with world soccer. Bin Hammam was the
president of the Asian Football Confederation and a FIFA presidential candidate. He stood accused
of trading cash for presidential votes at a meeting of the Caribbean Football Union.
Picture courtesy of FAS If you guys want to know what are my thoughts over the announcement made
this afternoon at Kuala Lumpur (pictured above), I would say I'm still struggling to formulate my
thoughts.
As everything to me still looked so vague, nonetheless, I allowed a journalist friend to quote me
as follow when he called earlier.
European football clubs are visiting major Asia cities to earn a bigger slice of the region's
growing wealth, Simon Thompson, East Asian head of Asian Football Confederation marketing partner,
World Sport Group, told AFP. "They're like any brand, any modern-day company," he said. "Asia is a
big part of the global economy now.
European football clubs are visiting major Asia cities to earn a bigger slice of the region's
growing wealth, Simon Thompson, East Asian head of Asian Football Confederation marketing partner,
World Sport Group, told AFP. "They're like any brand, any modern-day company," he said. "Asia is a
big part of the global economy now.
By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Jul 7, 2011) US Soccer Players -- Sorry FIFA, but after
reelecting the sitting president unopposed I'm hoping you'll find out the rest of the World doesn't
have a lot of stomach for turning the only other candidate into a no-goodnik. That's the scenario
currently playing itself out as we await FIFA formally charging suspended Asian Football
Confederation and one-time FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam.
Following yesterday's announcement by FIFA, the world football body, that he would be called to
appear before its Ethics Committee on 22 July, Mohamed bin Hammam has issued a personal plea for
a "fair hearing." According to the suspended FIFA Executive Committee member and President of the
Asian Football Confederation, his case has been affected "by persons who, along with their
motivations,
Following yesterday's announcement by FIFA, the world football body, that he would be called to
appear before its Ethics Committee on 22 July, Mohamed bin Hammam has issued a personal plea for
a "fair hearing." According to the suspended FIFA Executive Committee member and President of the
Asian Football Confederation, his case has been affected "by persons who, along with their
motivations,
The wold football body, FIFA, has announced that its Ethics Committee Panel will meet on 22 and
23 July to examine the cases of Mohamed bin Hammam, a FIFA Exco member and President of the Asian
Football Confederation, and two Caribbean Football Union officials, Debbie Minguell and Jason
Sylvester.
The wold football body, FIFA, has announced that its Ethics Committee Panel will meet on 22 and
23 July to examine the cases of Mohamed bin Hammam, a FIFA Exco member and President of the Asian
Football Confederation, and two Caribbean Football Union officials, Debbie Minguell and Jason
Sylvester.
La Plata is the venue for Argentina v Bolivia today, the opening game of 2011's South
American Championship - the Copa America.
The 24-team tournament culminates in the final at River Plate's Monumental Stadium (pic) - the
scene of riots on Sunday when the club was relegated for the first time in its 110-year
history.
