Former top Thai striker Kiatisuk Senamuang will return to V-League club Hoang Anh Gia Lai as head
coach to prepare the team for the 2010 season, club manager Doan Nguyen Duc said on Thursday.
Kiatisuk came to Vietnam to play for HAGL from 2002 to 2006, helping the club win the V-League and
super cup titles in 2003 and 2004.
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Vietnam's national football coach said on Monday that he was very pleased with the debut
performance of Vietnamese football ace Le Cong Vinh in round seven of Portugal's premier league on
Sunday.
Vinh, who signed a four-month contract with Liga Sagres club Leixoes in August, played the full 90
minutes in his side's 3-2 home win over Leiria.
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HA NOI — Viet Nam's U-19 national football squad will replace Iran's U-21 team to compete in the
International U-21 Football Tournament from October 9-18, the event's organising board has
announced.
According to the official announcement of the Iran Football Federation, the Iranians are too busy
competing in their ongoing National Football Championship so are unavailable to take in part in the
International U-21 Football Tournament as planned.
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If Frank Lowy knows anything then Canberra are "unlikely," to get an A-League spot on Monday. But
Canberrans shouldn't panic just yet.
And you know Frank isn't always in tune with his CEO and his team and Mike Cockerill is hardly
renowned for getting to the bottom of a story is he?
He still thinks it's Wollongong or no-one or maybe he's looking for a job in West Sydney, either
way coming from Mike.
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SoccerLens 04 July @ 03:56 PM EST
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) governs the footballing community of Asia and also now
includes Australia, but it doesn't include a number of Asian (or part-Asian) countries, who are
part of UEFA. The headquarters are located in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.
The AFC was formed in 1954 (believe it or not on the sidelines of a game), by Afghanistan,
Burma, Republic of China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea Republic, Pakistan,
Philippines, Singapore & Vietnam.
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Halfway through the Confederations Cup group stages we're getting a better sense of what to expect
next summer, both on and off the field. Here's a look at some of the story lines.
Not much has changed for the US since 2006: The US appears no better or no worse than the
team that went 0-2-1 at the 2006 World Cup.
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PETALING JAYA: England-based youngster Haziq Zikri Elias is set to join the Harimau Muda (national
Under-19) squad for two major international assignments this year.
The 18-year-old Haziq, who plays for Stevenage Borough FC in the Conference National League in
Hertfordshire, will attend trials here tomorrow.
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It's yet another four-all draw...
Both Rupert Murdoch and Leonard Blavatnik are worth $4.0 billion.
The match that will determine the future of world football is on the verge of becoming a
Reality.
Can Setanta be saved by Blavatnik?
Is the Murdochracy on the wain?
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Canberra has produced a number of Socceroos, A-League players and currently has 4 Canberrans in the
Joeys squad.
So when they announced the first Under 13 boys Australian team ever....thirty spots mind you..I
felt sure with thousands of kids playing football, Coerver Coaching, and various Academy and
Clinics around town surely we'd be able to get one or maybe two players into the squad.
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An early start, (Aug 6th) and much later finish (March 20). Which extends the season by about 6 or
7 weeks.
We're getting closer to a real football season. 27 games plus finals...in A World Cup Year...it's
only going to get better and better for Aussie football fans.
New teams, new players, more games.
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Aussie Under 13 boys and 14 girls teams will be selected from this weeks State trials in Canberra
starting Sunday.....oh and btw the fields chosen for our nation's best should suit the least
talented!
Fixtures and squads below....
As part of our new place in Asia apparently we need a young girls and boys team.
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Vietnam will host the AFC U-14 women's Football Festival from June 17 through 30.
The event will attract eight members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) including
Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and host Viet
Nam.
This year, the Ha Noi women's football club will represent Viet Nam in the event.
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If Ernesto "Che" Guevara was alive today, he would find Japan a maddening place to launch
a revolution.
It's not because he polarises opinion in The Land Of The Rising Sun. There's no debate over whether
he was a freedom fighter or blood-thirsty mercenary on the streets of Tokyo - most young Japanese
are familiar with his face only because it adorns the tackiest of designer handbags in the
capital's upmarket boutiques.
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Chrissy Walters played for the Young Matildas, most of whom are Under 18 against a China Under 20
side about to play at the World Cup.
China are a powerhouse in women's football but Australia won 2-1 on Saturday with a standout
performance from Canberran Bronywn Studman, according to Coach Alen Stajic and 2-0 tonight.
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FFA Release below
The Westfield ‘Promising Matildas' have arrived in Canberra ahead of an international
friendly against China U20 this Thursday at 4.00pm AEST.
"Every game that we can play against Asian opponents is important to further our development
–particularly when it is against a power nation like China," said National Women's
Coach, Tom Sermanni.
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Carl Valeri to start.
Remember the Socceroos at the World Cup in Germany 2006. How could you forget one of Australia's
greatest sporting moments?
How many Canberrans played against Carl in his junior days. Maybe beat him in a sprint or a tackle,
maybe even nutmegged him.
Well Canberra's Carl Valeri, the former Tuggeranong United junior, is crucial to Australia's hopes
to get to South Africa 2010.
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Taken from The Star
Monday July 21, 2008
Perak in dire straits
By RONNIE OH
GEORGE TOWN: Perak are in deep financial crisis and they may not be able to fulfil their commitment
to play against Lebanon's SAFA FC in the away match of the AFC Cup quarter-final tie in
September.
Perak, whose players have gone without salaries for nearly four months now, have made appeals for
funds to the state and the FA of Malaysia (FAM) but they have not received replies.
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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.
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With the team's 3-0 victory over Thailand, Japan advanced into the 4th round of the Asian Football
Confederation's qualifying stage for the 2010 World Cup. Only 4 or 5 nations from Asia will qualify
for the next World Cup that will be held in South Africa.
Joining Japan in the 4th round so far are the nations: Australia, Bahrain, both Koreas, Uzbekistan,
Saudi Arabia, and Iran.
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There is nothing more predictable that our media focussing on the negative.
Yesterday the Asian Football Confederation released their restructure of the AFC Champions League.
The restructure itself is overdue, the format of the current competition is poor. Allowing only the
top team of each group passage to the knockout rounds results in the situation we saw last night
where the group winner has been decided before the final round and no one has anything to play for
except pride.
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India's national football team will train in Dubai for ten days before its first round qualifier
match for the 2010 World Cup against Lebanon scheduled for 8 October. The Indian team's camp in
Dubai will start on 25 September, a day after Mahindra United play Lebanon's Al Nejmeh in the
quarterfinal of the Asian Football Confederation's AFC Cup. Six Mahindra players will join the
national squad
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Representatives of the Indonesia League Committee (BLI) of the Football Association of Indonesia
(PSSI) met Asian Football Confederation General Secretary Dato Paul Mony Samuel today at the Hilton
Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The meeting discussed changes to the Indonesia professional league
structure, particularly the new Super League that will commence in 2008.
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The Asian Football Confederation has unveiled the draw for the first round of regional qualifiers
for the 2010 World Cup, with Asian Cup champions Iraq along with Afghanistan and Palestine barred
from playing home matches for security reasons. "We decided this after due consideration and also
after discussing it with FIFA. I think the football authorities in Iraq understand why we made this
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Global Goals the new and exiciting website for ranking international goalscorers have just
published their July rankings. It's great news for Japanese scoring sensation Naohiro Takahara, the
leading goalscorers at last month's Asian Cup who has broken into the overall Top 20 for the first
time, for the complete Top 30 and the Asian Top 30
please log on to www.
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Former South Korea coach Pim Verbeek has suggested to the Asian Football Confederation that it
should never again run its prestigious Asian Cup in multiple countries. The 2007 event was
conducted in Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia. "It's not up to me to make the final report
but if I can make a small suggestion, I don't think we should do it again because of the traveling,
the
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The Asian Football Confederation's Professional League Ad-Hoc Committee has conducted a site study
of Singapore's S-League and reportedly went away highly impressed. The purpose of the visit was to
assess Singapore's suitability of playing in the revamped Asian Champions League in 2009. The
committee studied the stadium facilities, league and club management, media coverage and the
marketing,
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Asian Football Confederation President Mohamed Bin Hammam has suggested that prizemoney will be
offered for the first time at the AFC Asian Cup 2011 to be played in his home nation, Qatar. "We
don't compensate our football federations for playing in the Asian Cup. There is no prizemoney for
this competition," he told AFP. "But we believe that for 2011 something will be changed.
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The Asian Football Confederation Executive Committee, chaired by President Mohamed Bin Hammam, met
in Jakarta on the sidelines of the AFC Asian Cup 2007 and took several key decisions, including
approving the proposal to purchase insurance for AFC Match Officials which will include medical
benefits for US$20,000, personal accident for US$50,000 and life insurance for US$50,000 and only
for the
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Asian Football Confederation President Mohamed bin Hammam has hailed the AFC Asian Cup 2007 as
ushering in a new era in regional football. He called the tournament played across four countries a
turning point for South-East Asia in particular, with three of the four host country teams –
Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam – exceeding expectations. "After long and hard preparation we
have enjoyed
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Iraq coach Jorvan Vieira has criticised the Asian Football Confederation for leaving his
travel-weary players stranded without hotel rooms. He told Nazvi Careem of Reuters his players had
waited four hours at the Prince Hotel lobby in Kuala Lumpur after arriving from Bangkok on Monday
before only eight rooms were made available for 31 people. Iraq plays South Korea on Wednesday in
an Asian Cup
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To enhance the value of the coming 3rd versus 4th finals play-off, three of the four AFC Asian Cup
2007 semi-finalists will be given byes to the 2011 finals, the Asian Football Confederation
announced. South Korea, Japan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia now all have a chance to book their places in
the 2011 competition in Wednesday's semi-finals. A fourth automatic spot will go to the host
country,
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The Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) reportedly lodged its first official protest to the
Asian Football Confederation's appointment of a referee from the United Arab Emirates to its game
against Saudi Arabia before the game started but got no reply. "We asked them not to use a Middle
Eastern referee,'' PSSI chairman Nurdin Halid said in a press release.
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The Deputy President of the Football Association of Malaysia has resigned, one day after the AFC
Asian Cup co-hosts suffered a second straight heavy defeat. Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah
announced his decision in a public letter faxed to local news agency Bernama on Sunday. Abdullah,
also an executive member of the Asian Football Confederation, had criticised national coach Norizan
Bakar
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