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PSM coach Robert Alberts is reported to have quit PSM ahead of their reincarnation in the breakaway
Liga Primer Indonesia.
Apologies for the title taken from a Robbie Williams song. I would have preferred another song,
more earthier, more direct but there you go.
Questions are being raised about the authenticity of a fax allegedly sent from FIFA to the
Indonesian FA, PSSI, calling on the Indonesian body to impose sanctions on the breakaway Liga
Primer Indonesia.
With Persema seemingly committed to the breakaway Liga Primer Indonesia there has been intense
debate on what the future holds for new national team star Irfan Bachdim. Actually, it hasn't been
that intense but I though I would pretend to be a part of the English media and through in some
irrelevant adjectives to big up the story.
Just days to go before the much hyped Liga Primer Indonesia kicks off and the police are refusing
to give permission for the opening game, between Solo and Persema, to go ahead.
All sport events with the likelihood of large crowds need security clearance.
The police are saying that until the LPI, the breakaway league, sort out their differences with the
official football body in Indonesia, PSSI, they will not authorise games to go ahead.
Irfan Bachdim has committed himself to Persema. There had been persistent rumours that he would
seek a move as Persema had entered the breakaway Liga Primer Indonesia and it is thought unlikely
that he would be selected for the national team in the future. However he has shown loyalty to the
team that gave him a chance in Indonesian football.
Persis Solo are the latest club to threaten to withdraw from the official football set up in
Indonesia. They currently sit bottom of Group 2, Divisi Utama with three points from their opening
six games. As I type this they are playing Persik in what could be their last game.
Wonder what would happen to their players if they make good on their threat?
Finally the big days arrives. Tomorrow sees the breakaway Liga Priner Indonesia kick off with
Ksatria Solo playing Persema at the Manahan Stadium in Solo.
What should we expect? Persema will be fielding the team that served them in the official Indonesia
Super League till they withdrew while Ksatria Solo will be made up of various folk nobody has heard
of along with an Aussie keeper.
Liga Primer Indonesia side Bogor Raya have signed Andrija Jukic after A League side Perth Glory
agreed to release him from his contract.
While many have been wary of the breakaway league which lacks FA sanction Australians have flocked
to join the league. Old hand Robbie Gaspar has been in Indonesia and is in his second season with
Persema who recently withdrew from the official Indonesia Super League.
After FIFA threatened sanctions against Indonesia's breakaway league, the Liga Primer Indonesia,
the new league have welcomed the opportunity to sit down with the world's governing body and
explain their situation.
OK, let's put aside claims they had already done this and gotten approval (I think what was said at
the time was that FIFA won't get involved if the FA are on board), appealing to FIFA's morals and
ethics is rather like asking a King Cobra who hasn't eaten for six months to take care of the
barbeque you're preparing while you nip into the bottle shop for a few more six packs.
If you are then Jakarta is the place to be. The Liga Primer Indonesia team Jakarta 1928 have
reportedly signed Philippine internationals Phil and James Younghusband. So that means, girls, you
get two young husbands for the price of one!
Jakarta 1928 are slated to play their first LPI game on Saturday when they host Bogor Raya at the
Lebak Bulus Stadium.
I just love the eternal optimism that gushes forth from some of the people involved with the
breakaway Liga Primer Indonesia.
Today's football tabloid, Top Skor, suggests that Aceh United are interested in signing for Leeds
United, Newcastle United and Middlesborough striker Mark Viduka.
Now I don't know how much truth there is in that story and I have never met the stocky Australian
striker but the mere thought of Mark Viduka moving to Aceh, with its strict implementation of
sharia law, they have public canings there, has me tittering into me tissues so it does.
So there I am, me and Belgian Pat, sat in the main stand, the only stand, at Tugu Stadium waiting
for Persitara v Persiraja to kick off. The stadium is empty, no more than two or three dozen inside
at the time.
Up comes this Persitara official and asks us if we are connected with the breakaway Liga Primer
Indonesia.
The war of words between the official Indonesian football leagues, in this case the Divisi Utama,
and the breakaway Liga Primer Indonesia now has a new front. In Semarang.
PSIS, in Divisi Utama, were scheduled to play Persikota yesterday afternoon but earlier in the week
the game was rescheduled til Saturday.
I have no idea who or what the BOPI is beyond some kind of jobs for boys. I think it's Body for
Professional Sports Indonesia. Apparently because of this body the breakaway league, Liga Primer
Indonesia, have been getting approval to hold football matches in this country.
As far as I'm aware the only body authorised by FIFA, the world's governing body, to arrange and
organise football matches is the local FA which in the case of Indonesia is the PSSI.
MADRID, Spain — A spectacular lob from the half-way line by Ruben Cani helped Villarreal to a 4-2
victory over Osasuna on Saturday which kept them in third place in La Liga and maintained their
push for a place in Europe. Villarreal went into the game with several important players missing
but Marco Ruben took [.
The government in Indonesia is none too keen on having local governments subsidise football teams
and with good reason. Why should the taxpayer fork out for a football team when schools are in poor
conditions and roads are damaged and health care is inadequate?
Given the worldwide clampdown on tobacco sponsorship it's only a matter of time before they will be
banned from getting involved in Indonesia.
It is a truism of the world's media that only negative stories about Indonesia make headlines. You
know that worldwide economic downturn that effected so many? hardly caused a ripple here. But did
you read about that anywhere beyond a few scholarly economic treatise? Unlikely.
Now the civil war in Indonesian football has gone international.
Former Aston Villa and England striker Lee Hendrie could well be on his way to the breakaway Liga
Primer Indonesia. Well, Bandung say they want him. Hendrie recently turned down a move to Mansfield
Town.
If he does make the switch to Indonesia he would be the first former England international to play
his trade in Indonesia since, umm, Peter Withe!
Persib Bandung are considering their options after disturbances marred their game against Arema
at the weekend. Fans, incensed by what they perceived as a string of refereeing decisions going
against them rioted and chanted LPI, a reference to the breakaway Indonesian league. If I was
Persib fan I would be just as furious at a couple of missed chances when the goal was at the
striker's mercy but that's just me.
Arsenal are through to the Carling Cup final after beatingI pswich Town 3-0 tonight.
Two second-half goals in three minutes from Nicklas Bendtner and Laurent Koscielny broke the
Championship (second division) side's resistance in the second leg of the semi-final which gave
Arsenal a 3-1 aggregate victory and a place in next month's final at Wembley Stadium.
Lee Hendrie, former England international, has signed a two year deal with Bandung FC in the
breakaway Liga Primer Indonesia. His debut for the club could well be this weekend as the team
travel to Solo. If it is they're doing bloody well. I never had my work papers processed so quickly
before.
The LPI is not recognised by the Indonesian FA and they have in the past threatened to deport
foreign players who do sign up and play in it but till now their bluster has been all puff and
wind.
After an initial initiative from the breakaway Liga Primer Indonesia comes news that the Indonesia
Super League are considering foreign refs for the second half of the season.
Under the plans not all games would be officiated by foreign refs but selected taking into account
the attendance, any previous between the teams, clubs' position in the table and TV coverage.
The schedules for Madison United's 18th annual President's Cup indoor soccer tournament have
been announced.
For the second straight year, a record 84 teams make up the field for the event Feb. 19 and 20
– 32 in the Men's Open division, 28 in the Women's Open bracket, 16 in the Men's Over-30
competition and eight in the Men's Over-38 division.
NJ Mania are the lads who followed Persitara Jakarta Utara. A rowdy, boisterous bunch they now also
follow Batavia Union in the breakaway Liga Primer Indonesia.
I saw Persitara play Persiraja the pther day and there was a healthy turn out of NJ Mania even
though the core, them with the drums, turned up halfway through the first half.
