It's a far cry from Jurong West Stadium but Gabriel Obatola showed his worth on his debut for
Portland Timberwolves when he scored the only goal of the game against Seattle Sounders in a pre
season friendly. In front of nealry 19,000 fans.
Just think, had not Singapore authorities got smarmy and rejected his employment pass he would
still be in the SLeague and looking forward to pulling on a Lions shirt next year.
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Although, this wasn't an "A" international but this was probably the last time we see Indra wearing
the armband (vs Oman Selection in Dec 2009)
I'm not sure how many of you out there react to the retirement of Lions' erstwhile skipper Indra
Sahdan Daud from international football.
Some of the feedback I gathered from the grapevine were disbelief and surprise (not shocking
though), while contrastingly, for those who are long enough in the local scene would not be too
much a surprise of the SAFFC's striker decision to quit the national team.
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The Singapore FA are hoping to send the national team to Europe in August. No dates have been
firmed yet and no opponents either.
With little on the international calender this year, apart from some kick around in South Africa,
this would be a good opportunity for the Lions to prepare for the 2010 ASEAN Cup in December.
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Still Singapore resonates to the sound of dirty washing being displayed. Hallelujah and praise be
to the media who do love this kind of tripe.
Some old pro who now works in gas shows he knows a thing or two about his product when he compared
today's Lions to back in his day when, get this, players would play computer games and smoke after
lights and even, heavens to Betsy, 'some didn't even sleep at all'.
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FIRST HALF SHORT SCRIBEUnfortunate to have conceded an early goal to the Jordanians, but except for some usual scary
moments, the boys hold themselves well against their hosts in front of a hostile crowds.
The already depleted Lions suffered another early blow when skipper Noh Rahman was replaced by
Rosman Sulaiman due to an injury.
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Rhys Jaggar and Tony Attwood There are fans of a certain age who can remember Ajax being top dogs
in Europe. In fact, that was really the first dominant European side I remember as a boy. Cruyff et
al. I wasn't quite old enough to remember the Lisbon Lions or Feyenoord, but both won the [...]
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Anfield Talk 06 February @ 01:44 PM EDT
The Merseyside derby continues to bring out the worst in people, but for Liverpool this was
ultimately a joyous encounter. The hosts had to play the majority of this tetchy and at times
violent game a man down after defender Sotirios Kyrgiakos was sent off for a two-footed lunge on
Marouane Fellaini, but that made victory over their local rivals even sweeter, and even more
significant.
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This is a pretty amazing story to keep following. The Dayton Dutch Lions FC signed veteran Dutch
player Hans van de Haar and you can read more about it by clicking here. This team though is a USL
PDL club and they keep signing veteran Dutch players. They should be a lot of fun to watch this
season. Maybe they'll bring over Marco Van Basten to coach them!
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Read through this article about the St. Louis Lions, a PDL franchise in the USL signing an
agreement with Umbro regarding equipment, and there's a good story about how the club is in talks
with Glasgow Celtic to start Celtic's first youth program in the United States.
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Forgive my tardiness, I had personal matters to tend to... but yes, 1860 Munich forward Kenny
Cooper is set to go on loan with Championship survivalists Plymouth, a club source confirmed to
NSC. The deal should be done by tomorrow.I'm not exactly sure I understand the need to go on loan
for playing time, seeing as how the goal-shy Lions were probably desperate to get him back from the
injury
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If Roger Espinoza is going to make the Honduran World Cup team, it appears he'll be doing it in a
Wizards uniform. Apparently after their game against the United States, Honduran coach, Reinaldo
Rueda that Espinoza was looking to secure a loan move to a team in the Honduran league to help
improve his chances of being selected.
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O segundo jogo da Copa da África de 2010, foi também realizado em Luanda, no estádio 11 de
Fevereiro, e envolveu as seleções de Malawi (99º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Argélia
(26º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
Copa da África1984Bouake 05/03/1984 MWI0:3 (0:3)ALG First stage
Amistosos1978Lilongwe 24/10/1978 MWI2:1ALG
1978Lilongwe 22/10/1978 ALG1:1MWI
1978Algiers 22/07/1978 ALG3:0MWI First stage
O árbitro desse jogo foi Badara Diatta de Senegal.
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That seems to be what coach Le Guen thinks of the Africa Cup of Nations (ACN). There is a
disconnect between Le Guen on the one side, and the Cameroon Football Federation, the fans, some
players and the staff on the other. Le Guen's main objective is the World Cup while the Federation
has set winning the ACN and reaching the World Cup semi-finals.
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Today's Top Skor is reporting Persija are close to signing a new striker. Technical Director Benny
Dollo hinted that the player was African and he has experience of playing in Indonesia.
My feeling is that the Kemayoran Lions are targeting a big front man in much the same manner they
did last season when they recruited Fabio Lopes but the question is who?
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Read more about the Dayton Dutch Lions F.C. that play in the USL's PDL. They have a strong Dutch
influence and even have goalkeeper Oscar Moens who has played for a number of clubs in Holland's
Eredivisie and the Dutch National Team.
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PREVIEW
I came to realize the recent comment by the MM does actually makes sense.
Don't draw your guns at me because I'm not referring to those content of those comments, but I
drawn this conclusion after a brief chat with a co-worker of my over the discussion of the upcoming
Lions' Asian Cup Qualifier fixture against Iran.
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As the players walk out on to the pitch at Old Trafford, music is blasted out of the tannoy
which is reminiscent of something out of Gladiator. You almost expect lions to come racing out of
the tunnel after the players!
There have been mutters of complaint about this for sometime, as it prevents the chanting from
starting, as any sound from the crowd is totally drowned out by the deafening music.
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Tony Glavin's heart has been in the right place since the beginning of his coaching
career: Developing the game of soccer in the US and developing players in St. Louis.
Tony Glavin
If you drop the name Tony Glavin in soccer circles in the US you will hear about the very
successful Tony Glavin Soccer Club out of St.
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Oman shown their true colour on the New Year's Eve, by walloped Singapore 4-1 at the Bishan Stadium
in the final game of this two-game friendly series.
As what coach Raddy said after the match, he cannot think of anything positive out of this game as
the visitors had clearly outsmarted, outclassed and outwitted their hosts with some swift movement
and dominating of possession plays.
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Port 23 December @ 12:08 AM EDT
Sporting and Braga have come to an agreement on 25 year old right back Joao Pereira. Pereira has
signed a four and half year contract with the Lions in a deal that looks to have cost Sporting
about $3 million. Sporting will be the fourth team that Pereira has played for in Portugal, the
other being Braga, Gil Vicente and Benfica.
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WVHooligan 22 December @ 05:51 PM EDT
We learned earlier this morning about Portland's stadium upgrades that will soon be coming but
what about their MLS expansion mates Vancouver? Well turns out they probably won't be playing in BC
Place right away in 2011 but instead will be in a temporary venue.
Instead they will (along with CFL side BC Lions) play at Empire Field's temporary stadium as
seen above.
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So check this sh*t out. From the looks of things the renovations of B.C. Place won't be completed
in time for the kick off of the 2011 MLS season so the 'Caps (along with CFL side B.C. Lions) will
pitch a tent, so to speak, on the grounds of the old Empire Stadium in the form of the $20m
temporary stadium you see above.
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And that was just the impact on the fans. The lowest crowd (5,800) ever for the Roar - the second
in succession - reflects that the fans have given the new regime at the club a massive thumbs
down.
The game never really rose above park football. It was back to season one for the Roar.
There are only 3 home games left this year.
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The mascot of the game - "Champa"
THE PREVIEW
For the reason that I can't catch the game while at work (it's scheduled to kick off at
1600hrs-Singapore time). So would have to rely on good men and women out there to do me a favour by
update me the scores by whatever means, thanks.
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Okay, here's my take. What do you think of it all?
Group A South Africa, France, Uruguay, Mexico
I've been procrastinating over email about possible World Cup draws lately, and one of my
theories was that South Africa would get fed to the lions as a "see, we're not crooks" gesture from
FIFA*.
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The draw is done! Last night in South Africa, the following groups rolled out of the tube: The
Dutch National Team - seeded in pot 1 - will face Denmark (Danish Dynamite), Cameroon (weren't they
the Lions?) and Japan (the Teabags?). Not a tough draw, but surely also not easy. Why? Because no
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The Thanksgiving weekend means a variety of things to a variety of people. For me it means a couple
of things: stomach aches from eating too much, trips up and down the Garden State Parkway, and
sports lots of it from college football to the NFL to college basketball to maybe a little NHL.
This year has been no different.
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EPL Talk 26 November @ 06:30 AM EDT
A lot has changed in the world since the FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world,
began in 1871. But the magic of the tournament still remains. The prospect of non-league minnows
upsetting giants. And the nostalgia of seeing matches played in front of standing-room only crowds
in the heart of the English countryside.
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Local reports suggest Indonesia could host Singapore in a friendly some time in December. The match
would be a warm up before both teams play Asian Cup qualifiers early January.
The friendly, they met earlier this month in Singapore and the Lions won 3-1, makes sense with both
leagues entering a hibernation period of a few weeks and anyway half the Singapore team are in
Indonesia anyway.
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Bracket.
Loyola Marymount's fate from the West Coast Conference press release:
Loyola Marymount, which was ranked No. 15 in the most recently published NCAA Ratings
Percentage Index, will be returning to the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in school history.
The Lions finished third in the WCC with a 10-8-2 overall record, marking Head Coach Paul Krumpe's
fifth 10-plus victory season.
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Briefly:
*The initial 36,000 tickets for MLS Cup Sunday in Seattle sold out, so another 6,000 tickets
have been put on sale. Details here.
*As unlikely as the Galaxy's run to MLS Cup was, Real Salt Lake's performance was even less
expected. Reaction here.
*U.S. Coach Bob Bradley called in the Houston Dynamo midfield duo of Ricardo Clark and Stuart
Holden and Tigres defender Edgar Castillo for Wednesday's game against Demark.
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It's ironically that since that 3-1 defeat to Thailand on Saturday, this blog recorded its biggest
viewership since its establishment as it surpassed the previous record set on 20th May 2009.
So as a basic courtesy, I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all those folks who had flocked in
over the past few days that made it possible to this new record.
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SHORT SCRIBE OF THE GAME
The first thing you noticed at the ground was the heavy security at the stadium.
Given the stakes were high and big crowds were expected that the organizers had decided to
segregate both groups of fans from one and other.
And like most games played in Kallang in the recent years, it would always be the away fans that
drummed up the atmospher (Why are we the passive lot?
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Singapore coach Raddy said he's glad with the media turn out today that he felt this must be
something good about the game tomorrow.
Thailand's coach Bryan Robson this is first time he comes to Singapore in a capacity as a coach and
he's looking forward to the game and challenge ahead.
At the meantime, the former England skipper gave an update to the media on his team preparation and
said,"everything is going well.
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