Football in Namibia, October 12th, 2009

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Here is just brief world cup 2010 schedule, tommorow I will give You a full list fr world cup matches:
Friday June 5
England vs Netherlands (Lords, 1730 BST)Sat June 6
New Zealand vs Scotland (Oval, 1000)
Australia vs West Indies (Oval, 1300)
India vs Bangladesh (Trent Bridge, 1730)Sun June 7
South Africa vs Scotland (Oval 1330)
England vs Pakistan (Oval, 1730)Mon June 8
Bangladesh vs Ireland (Trent Bridge, 1330)
Australia vs Sri Lanka (Trent Bridge, 1730)Tue June 9
Pakistan vs Netherlands (Lords, 1330)
New Zealand vs South Africa (Lords, 1730)Wed June 10
Sri Lanka vs West Indies (Trent Bridge, 1330)
India vs Ireland (Trent Bridge, 1730)Super EightsThu June 11
D1 vs A2 (Trent Bridge, 1330)
B2 vs D2 (Trent Bridge, 1730)Fri June 12
B1 vs C2 (Lords, 1330)
A1 vs C1 (Lords, 1730)Sat June 13
C1 vs D2 (Oval, 1330)
D1 vs B1 (Oval, 1730)Sun June 14
A2 vs C2 (Lords, 1330)
A1 vs B2 (Lords, 1730)Mon June 15
B2 vs C1 (Oval, 1330)
B1 vs A2 (Oval, 1730)Tue June 16
D1 vs C2 (Trent Bridge, 1330)
D2 vs A1 (Trent Bridge, 1730)Knock out stageThu June 18
1st semi-final (Trent Bridge, 1730)Fri June 19
2nd semi-final (Oval, 1730)Sun June 21
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DPMM v Albirex Niigata 2-1 (Haji Subhi Abdilah, Ivan Jerkovic; Tetsuya Kishida) 4,429
Tampines Rovers v Gombak United 2-1 (Qiu Li, Sutee Suksomkit; Fazrul Nawaz) 2,887
Both DPMM and Tampines were forced to come from behind to keep the pressure on leaders SAF but the Stags stay second four points behind the leaders. Click to continue reading...

Thai League Football is reporting a couple of friendlies against Pakistan coming soon
14/08 v Pakistan
18/08 v Pakistan Click to continue reading...

Pakistan are victorious! And all Pakistan fans' cars seem to have working horns. Tooting is ablaze with noise.

I used to think 20-20 was an abomination. I was very wrong. What a great game they've come up with. (Of course, it's exactly the game many of us played every summer Wednesday while growing up, but it's nice to see the old midweek slogs being played by experts.

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We've been working on ColoradoSoccerNow.com for three solid months, and we've built up a pretty good following so far.

On Monday, we added readers in three countries: Finland, Turkey and the Dominican Republic.

So for this week's edition of The Tuesday List, we present a roll call of all of the nations to have visited our Web site in this short period:

United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Ireland
France
Germany
Slovenia
Czech Republic
Pakistan
Puerto Rico
Russia
Italy
Spain
Brazil
Switzerland
Japan
Argentina
Mexico
Israel
Greece
China
Costa Rica
Denmark
India
Iceland
U.

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Well after the debacle against the Netherlands it was relieving to see England step up and deal with a very tricky match against Pakistan so professionally.
The loss to the Dutch was utterly shocking but Twenty20 can be like that 'cause the game can get away from you so quickly. Against Pakistan that never really looked like happening. Click to continue reading...

Poke!
Turns out some 25 year old in Pakistan created a super-popular fake page for the Manchester United star. Too bad it violates the websites rules of fake pages.
Said the creator, Kunwar Ali:

"I used to spend six or seven hours on Facebook every day posting updates about Cristiano and have done for the last year.

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Funny, and a little bit tragic, but mainly funny! The biggest unofficial Cristiano Ronaldo Facebook page has been shut down by the site despite having almost three million fans and getting half a million hits every month. The man behind the page, 25-year-old Kunwar Ali who lives in Pakistan, told Newsbeat he . Click to continue reading...

Imagine the most beloved sports team in your country travelling abroad for a prestigious tournament, only to have their bus attacked with rifles, rockets, and hand grenades as they approached a stadium for a match. No, this one isn't about soccer but its all about sports.
Sri Lankan are crazy about volleyball but their national cricket team is widely followed, having developed itself into a global power, winning the 1996 World Cup and winning the Asian Cup in 1996 and 2004. Click to continue reading...

Think of a country beginning with P... Oops! The Guardian has unleashed a political hot potato all of its own baking by claiming that a Turkish footballer planted a Pakistan flag in the middle of the pitch during a match. The headline appears on the homepage of Guardian Sport, but fortunately they have got their story [. Click to continue reading...

The Merdeka Cup in Malaysia is an annual event which was won last year by the hosts who beat Myanmar 3-1 in the final.
This time around it is being played in October and will feature eight nations. According to the Star these are the confirmed participants:
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Beijing 2008 Olympics - Men's Football fixtures and results, all in one place! Bookmark this page and share away: Time Zones All times listed are China Standard Time (UTC+8). To calibrate your local timings (and accommodating Daylight Savings Time): United States (Eastern Standard Time) = UTC-4 United Kingdom = UTC+1 Continental Europe = UTC+2 Pakistan = UTC+6 Australia = UTC+10 Nº Group Teams & Kick-Off [. Click to continue reading...

John McCain made another Bush-worthy geography gaffe yesterday - this time on "Good Morning America." Sorry, John, Iraq and Pakistan don't actually share a border. (As an aside, I've always wished that some brave member of the press would ask Bush, during a press conference, to point to Iraq on a map. Click to continue reading...

: The Pb police force research worker into the decease of Islamic Republic Of Pakistan manager British Shilling Woolmer said on Tuesday there was no grounds of match-fixing inch the team's games at the Cricket World Cup in March.

Jamaica Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields, testifying at Woolmer's inquest, said the International Cricket Council also establish no grounds linking Woolmer's decease to match-fixing.

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Sports Sciences Club of Lahore won Pakistan's 3rd National Women's Football Championship after beating Afghanistan 1-0 in the final at the Jinnah Stadium. Ace striker Ayesha Akram netted the winner in the 26th minute of the first half to help her team lift the coveted trophy. "The winners gave no chance whatsoever to all out attacks of Afghanistan in the second session and kept their slender lead Click to continue reading...

The Afghanistan national women's football team has completed its first ever international match abroad competing in a club tournament in Pakistan. The squad of 20 female players and two female coaches faced neighboring Pakistan in a friendly on Saturday. They were beaten 2-0. Although there are now 500 registered women players across Afghanistan, the game has had to develop in a cautious way Click to continue reading...

A leading football manufacturing firm in Sialkot, Pakistan, has unveiled the world's largest handmade football, measuring 34.7 feet diameter and weighing 800 kg. The huge ball took 50 stitchers over two months to complete the required 22,000 stitches. Ahsan Naeem, Chief Executive of Vision Technologies, said the football had been manufactured in record time on the request of MPM Telephone Company Click to continue reading...

The 15 local teams participating in the Pakistan Women's Football Championship in Islamabad (16-24 August) are set to welcome the Afghanistan women's national team. "It will be historic because Afghan women competing in Pakistan will be great for the relationship of these two countries," Pakistan Football Federation spokesman Akbar Wahidi told AFP. "The team's involvement "will promote football Click to continue reading...

Pakistani Punjab's women football players will get some fine coaching tips from German coach Monika Staab who will hold a local five-day coaching clinic after successful clinics in Karachi and Quetta. Former FIFA referee Arif Siddiqui and Uzma Zaidi will act as the coordinators of the clinic which concludes on 10 August. Monika's next assignment will be to train and pick talented women of Click to continue reading...

Pakistan's state-level Punjab Football Association has named 25 players for a training camp to select a strong team for the 3rd National Women's Football Championship. The players will be accommodated at FIFA Football House until their departure to Islamabad on 15 August. The National Championship will be played from 16-24 August 2007 at Jinnah Stadium. Click to continue reading...

The Afghanistan women's national football squad of 20 players and two female coaches will travel to Pakistan this month for a friendly. "This is the first time that Afghan women football players will go abroad for a match," coach Abdul Saboor Walizada told Reuters. Since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, Afghanistan has witnessed unprecedented personal freedoms. Click to continue reading...

Pakistan Football Federation President Faisal Saleh Hayat said eight British-Pakistani players picked from the Rotherham FC trials in England are expected to link up with teams in the coming Pakistan Premier League being played in October. "No matter they are British citizens now, these players are eligible to line up for Pakistan football teams because of their family heritage," the PFF chief Click to continue reading...

The Pakistan Football Federation has concluded its first player trials in England. "This is broadening our base and opening doors to Pakistanis around the world who want to play football," Sardar Naveed Haider Khan, a PFF director, told AP. More than 130 players attended the weekend tryouts at English League 2 club Rotherham United. The eight selected by Rotherham coaches will be training at Click to continue reading...

The Pakistan Football Federation will hold trials for selecting promising football players with links to Pakistan on 29-30 July at South Yorkshire, a metropolitan county of England. The trials, the first of their kind, are seen as an opportunity to identify talent and skill amongst young British residents of Pakistani origin who might qualify to play in Pakistan's domestic football and to Click to continue reading...

The world football body FIFA has sent a high-profile woman coach to help Pakistan women players to finetune their football skills ahead of next month's National Championship in Islamabad. Monika Stab, 44, who coached Frankfurt Football Club to 11 titles in Germany before becoming a FIFA coach, will hold coaching camps in several cities of Pakistan over the next six weeks. Click to continue reading...

The Organising Committee for Asian Football Confederation Club Competitions, meeting today in Jakarta on the sidelines of AFC Asian Cup 2007 confirmed that Asia's club tournament for emerging countries, the AFC President's Cup, Pakistan 2007 has been rescheduled to take place during 20 -30 September in Lahore. The tournament, due to take place earlier this year, was postponed due to Pakistani Click to continue reading...

Pakistan's Super Football League championship kicks-off at Peoples Stadium Lyari on Friday evening with Karachi Bazigar meeting Lahore Lajpal. The SFL will play 20 matches over 52-days in stadiums in Karachi, Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore and Quetta. Participating teams will meet twice and the final will be played on 9 September. The SFL marks a new stage in Pakistan Football Federation President Click to continue reading...

The Pakistan Football Federation has imposed a ten-year ban on former PFF Secretary General Mohammad Arshad Khan Lodhi for violating the national federation's code of conduct and discipline. Lodhi has been barred from holding office of any provincial soccer association, national federation and taking part in any football activity of the country for a decade. Click to continue reading...