Se corona Suiza como campeón de la Copa Mundial Sub-17 de la FIFA Nigeria 2009 el 15 de noviembre de 2009 ante 60.000 espectadores en el National Stadium de Abuja, ante una Nigeria que en sus tierras querían refrendar su campeonato en esta categoría Sub 17.

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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? Click to continue reading...

Media information by Football Association of Singapore)
SINGAPORE, 6th November 2009: Match Tickets for the crucial AFC Asian Cup Qualifier between Singapore and Thailand on 14 November will go on advanced sale from Sunday, 8 November during the RHB Singapore Cup final at the Jalan Besar Stadium. Click to continue reading...

Hassan Sunny was the first player to come out for his warming up
The Lions kept their composure well in the first half (save for that slip when they allowed the Indonesians to level shortly after they took the lead in the 10th minute) to restrict their guests from prowling deep into their half to maintain their 2-1 lead. Click to continue reading...

First, a question: Does the United States need a national soccer stadium? The answer, without hesitation, is "no". America is bursting at the seams with stadiums, many purposely built with soccer...

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National Stadium, Vietiane
02/10: Laos vs Thailand, Vietnam vs Malaysia
04/10: Malaysia vs Thailand , Laos vs Vietnam
06/10: Laos vs Malaysia, Vietnam vs Thailand Click to continue reading...

Before the KICK-OFF
Spoke to some of the crowds at the stadium before the kick-off.

• "I first came to know this game from a China-based website and after verified it with local sources, I gathered some of my classmates here to watch the game" said 19 year-old Hu Qiang, a NUS student who was at the match with some of his classmates (above).

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(P.S: Below is a press release by Strategic Public Relations Group Singapore, a renowned public relations consultancy who are coordinating the above-mentioned event)
Singapore, 28 July 2009
NATIONAL DAY CHALLENGE KICKS OFF WITH GRUDGE MATCH
Singapore Lions takes on China to launch new football event
Singapore – In celebration of Singapore's National Day, the Singapore National Team will play China to kick off a new annual football event – the National Day Challenge. Click to continue reading...

(Picture from TV) Doesn't this trophy looks like the Malaysia Cup?
It was a soft, deflected goal from Andriy Voronin at the stroke of first half and the lapse in an indiscipline Singapore' backline in the second half saw the visiting the Liverpool ended their Singapore "holiday training camp" with a win of the hosting Lions at the heaven-know-when-will-tear-down National Stadium. Click to continue reading...

Yes, I admitted that I used to be one of the KOP.
But that was many years ago and yesterday I was the National Stadium to catch the Reds' only "open door" training session in front of approximately 6,000 (just a rough figure).
SOME PICTURES TOOK DURING THE EVENT
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Suddenly, those old memories just popped back aftera href="http://www.bolasepako.com/2009/03/mixed-feeling-but-its-prayer-answered.html" FAS decided to life the ban imposed on ex Lions' idol, Abbas Saad/a.br /br /I managed to dig out these collector cards produced by "GOAL" magazine (now defunct) during the 1994 Malaysia Cup season. Click to continue reading...

Remember in my "The ODD DOZEN" annual review that I asked about if the relevant organization can meet the deadline as spelled out on the SSC website?
So far there's no respond from the relevant organization in-charge regarding the query I wrote to them via the papers (as illustrated above), until a Member-of-Parliament, Mdm Ho Geok Choo decided to raise the issue in the Parliament. Click to continue reading...

Was at the National Stadium again to see how the preparation for the game against the Jordanians the following day.

Good to see guys like Aleksandar Duric, Khairul Amri back in training with Hariss Harun doing some light workout at the sidelines with trainer Aleksandar Bozenko.

Much of the training were dealt with "set-pieces" and match practices.

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I just came back from Kallang....
What a sad end to the tournament...
We had our chances (with Ah Long's countless efforts) but the luck wasn't there at all...
The Vietnamese had their chance and capitalized on it and made us paid for the price.
The general consensus was "Why Noh Rahman, who had a good game as the right-back, was replaced by an attacking-minded Ismail Yunos? Click to continue reading...

Was at Jalan Besar yesterday afternoon to take a look how the ticket sales, when the organizers decided at the eleventh hour to put the tickets on sale on Saturday, which was slated as a non-sale day.
Although there was no long queue for the tickets, the fans slowly turned up at the ground to buy their tickets. Click to continue reading...

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See you at the National Stadium on the 21st December, against the Vietnamese.
But, please refer to the "PrtSc" below from the SSC website..
Can we meet the deadline when it was already stated the construction supposed to start on February 2008? Click to continue reading...