ALOR SETAR
Kedah head coach Mohd Azraai Khor Abdullah on Thursday announced his resignation from the team,
effective immediately.
He said he submitted his resignation letter to State Youth and Sports, Arts and Heritage Culture
Committee chairman Dr Hamdan Mohamed Khalib this morning.
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Jogaram amistosamente no dia 10/10/2009, na cidade do Cairo-EGY, a seleção do Kuwait (110º no
ranking da FIFA) e Jordânia (129º no ranking da FIFA).
O próximo jogo da seleção do Kuwait, será contra o SÃria, no dia 26/10/2009 e a seleção
Jordânia contra a China em 07/11/2009.
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ERIC SAMUEL
Former national coach B. Sathianathan has accepted an offer from Kelantan to take charge of their
team for the Malaysia Cup competition which kicks off on Saturday.
Sathianathan, who met KFA president Tan Sri Annuar Musa in Kota Baru yesterday, said that details
of the contract would be drawn up soon.
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You got the impression that the South Korean players enjoyed scoring against their goalkeeper in
training a little too much. The novelty of having coach Huh Jung-moo in between the sticks
outweighed the verbal volleys that came the way of the ten men on the outfield.
Huh was gloved up because the national team was preparing for a friendly with Australia that
kicked-off three days later with no goalkeepers.
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Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho has long been a strong advocate of African football, buying the
rights to such players as Ghana's Michael Essien and Nigeria's Salomon Kalou at Chelsea and Ghana's
Sulley Muntari at Inter.Â
Now, the Special One is in Nigeria as a special guest of the Kwara Football Academy (KFA).
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There must be something in the water in South Korea. Anybody who spends time on the coaching staff
of the national team seems to spend the rest of their career doing pretty well for themselves.
A Korean Football Association (KFA) official told me recently that the organization should start
charging commission or finding fees.
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As the Year of the Rat gave way to the Year of the Ox in Seoul, Dr. Chung Myung-joon was finally
herded out of his office as the head of the Korean Football Association (KFA) to be replaced by Cho
Chung-yun.
It really was the end of an era. For the first time in 16 years, Dr. Chung did not be hand out New
Year presents to staff at the KFA.
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It is a situation that is familiar to all English fans. The FA starts looking for a high-profile
foreign coach for the national team, gets its fingers very publicly burnt, looks to home for a safe
choice and then appoints a man with success in cup competitions but a mediocre league record.
Steve McClaren's England didn't qualify for the 2008 World Cup but will Huh Jung-moo's Korea make
it to South Africa in 2010?
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It has become an almost annual event, one which is loved by journalists all over South Korea-
trying to guess the identity of the next national team coach.
No official candidates have been announced by the Korean Football Association (KFA) as yet. The
task of hiring and firing belongs to the body's Technical Committee.
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