“China must qualify for the World Cup, no doubt about that,” the AFC official said.

This is despicable!! We all know that AFC is the lowest of the low when it comes to the Footballing Bodies of World Football for their lack of professionalism, corruption, pan-Arab tendencies etc. but this really takes the cake. We all know that they want China in it, but being blatant is unfortunate.

This is not good for Australia, Iraq nor Qatar.

 

What the hell is this bullshit. Man The Afc is corruptedd

 

If the AFC was corrupted, China would have won the Asian cup 2007. (For God's sake China didn't even made it out of the group stages.)

So when making statements, back up your comments as well.

 

I think the right word here is un-professional.

 

i think best reply for the article.

Never AFC employee should directly support individual teams in media. even if somebody has his or her favorites, nature of the work doesnt allow any employee to make kind of in article mentioned statements.

 

Why you think that they didn't want to do it? you don't know... But you know.. there is always a straw breaks the dog's back. Let them bark as much as they want.

 

Gotta wonder who this "unnamed official" is. Especially his/her nationality.
Then again, it is also possible that this entire comment is exaggerated by the writer
and/or that there is no actual "unnamed official".

 

What a stupid comment for the AFC to make. China need to pull their heads out of their arse's if they want to get to the world cup, because at the moment they're a long shot.

 

Exactly.

 

What makes you think they wanted to do it?

 

Wow these AFC officials like to speak their minds don't they!

I think everyone knows that the rise of China would be beneficial to Asian football as a whole, however making such a direct statement especially with the qualifiers ongoing is bizarre.

How funny would it be if they got put out of this round

 

I think they just want more visitors to thier web site.

 

I have word from an unnamed official that the Premier League's relocating to China to tap this large market. Now I just need a blog to post it on........

/laugh @ this thread. Its great how some people believe everything they read.

 

Holy cow, Now the refeere well favor China in ther next matches

This isnt good for any of the grupp, Except China then


Its gona be intereset to watch Aussi vs China and in the same time Iraq-Qatar

Good football day

 

GO Australia!!!

 

Awesome. If we win Matchday 2 we can rename the team the Giant-slayers of Kunming.

 

Oh no these ones are smart. They are just looking for excuses. Lets say if China did get out of the group. The Iraqi, Australian fans will say "China got out of the group because this AFC official said so."

 

China is weak.
They almost lost to Thailand at home last week.
If they want to qualify, they need lots of help.

 

That's so ridiculous. At least we know the source of it if the refs are biased. I reckon there should be an election between the federations for head of AFC and so on. Nominees would beJohn o'neill and Saburo Kawabuchi and some other people. That guy in charge at the moment I think Hassam is rubbish. God that's hte most unprofessional comments I've heard in a long time.

 

any answer?

 

Wow, intelligence level rising through the roof here.

Australia tied Singapore 0-0 yesterday, and they beat Japan in the World Cup last year 3-1. By your logic Singapore is better than Japan? Damn... Japan's gonna need a lot of luck this time around too eh? (Oh wait no, never mind, unnamed official tells me that Aussie-Singapore tie yesterday was fixed so to raise the profile of football in SE Asia. But no one's gonna listen to MY unnamed source are they? Fools.)

@ sahbekham: Yea, if China ever managed to somehow get out of that group, I see it happening too

 

Problem is, China won't be getting out of the group. Iraq is just to naturally talented and Australia to professional and organised (what a contrast to the late 90s). Chinese team just isn't good enough, and even if they did make it out of the group they wont get past the likes of iran, japan, korea etc.

 

Frankly, it is better that Australia take part in World Cup rather than Australia. Australia has shown good impression WC 2 years ago.

 

Would you like to try again?