AFF U19 Championship Day One Results Thailand 0 - 1 South Korea Australia 3 - 1 China AFC U16 Championship Group Results Japan 4 - 0 Malaysia
HCM City Cup : Myanmar - Korean Students NT 1-4 Vietnam - Turkmenistan 2-3 Turkmenistan won HCM City Cup.
AFC U16 Championship Group Results Indonesia 0 - 9 South Korea Bahrain 3 - 0 Singapore Our boys just not good enough!
Well done to Thailand for gettign a 3-0 victory over China in the AFF event, just need to overcome Australia, which will be one hell of a challenge to qualify for the final. Also, well doen to Malaysia for picking up ASEAN's first point in the AFC U16 Championship, drawing 1-1 with Yemen
PETALING JAYA: Hosts Malaysia have been placed in Group A with Sierra Leone, Nepal and Afghanistan for the 40th Merdeka Tournament, which will be held at the MBPJ Stadium in Kelana Jaya from Oct 15-25. Mozambique, ranked 102nd on the FIFA list, will be the top draw card in Group B with Myanmar, Bangladesh and Vietnam. The Group B matches will be held at the Shah Alam Stadium. http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.asp?file=/2008/10/9/sports/2226478&sec=sports
Bad few days for our teams: AFF U19 Championship Day Three Results Thailand 1 - 2 Australia South Korea 1 - 0 China South Korea meet Australia in the final. Thailand play China for 3/4 place match AFC U16 Championship Group Results UAE 3 - 2 Malaysia Indonesia 0 - 1 India Iran 4 - 1 Singapore None of our teams could muster a win in the AFC Championship. Only Malaysia managed to get a point against surprise Group Winners Yemen. More than anything, it's bad to see the sides leak a hatful of goals. It seems we don't just get beat, but get absolutly stuffed. Indonesia it seems work their 'stuffings' into the full national team, and Singapore simply give up on the youngsters and push in 'foriegn' players. About time our teams did some defensive training. Set of results here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFC_U-16_Championship_2008
It nt true S'pore U16 suffer from playing against the host Uzb as the squad was down with food poisioning 1/3 of the team cld nt play against Uzb & they hve nt recover even now against Iran or Bahrain .
Also in addition to the U16 event. Indonesia play with a 2nd string, as their best players go to play in South America. So once analysed, you see a few differences between being stuffed as everyone plays on a different basis
Singapore Today Paper has reported FAS hve approached JFA help for local players to play in the J-league under the new Asian player rule They shortlisted a list of local players to send to J-league for trail for the 2009 season FAs rarely get invloved in getting local players overseas as they believed the players in the end must benefit & nt just sit on the bench or be sidelined & this is of the 1 of the time as the Asian player rule mean local do get action & nt be sidelined
Vietnam Schedule 2009 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) last week released the schedule for next year’s football tournaments, which is designed to fit with the national football squad (U23)’s international fixture list. The new football season will start with the first matches under the National Cup 2009 on January 31, 2009. One day later there will be a match between Binh Duong and Hanoi ACB for the Super National Cup. On February 6, 2009, the First Division Tournament will open and V-League 2009 will begin on February 7. The two most important tournaments of Vietnamese football will close on August 22 and 23, respectively. The Second Tournament Division will run from March 31 and finish on May 15, 2009 while the Third Tournament Division will be scheduled in mid-October. The final round of the U-15 tournament will run from August 12-22 while the finals of U18 will take place from July 8-18, and the U19 tournament January 2 to March 12. September 17-27 will be when the U21 tournament is held. The schedules for the National Women’s Football Championship 2009, Women’s U19 Tournament, the National Futsal Championship, U11 and U13 tournaments are not available yet. Beach football will appear in the official competition system of the Vietnam Football Federation next year.
VFF r bringing in players from Europe into their SEA Games squad for 2009 Bth r Slovakia youth internationals but believed they can changed NT as they hve nt played in senior side
Here another piece of news wihch is related VFF r looking at 8 players altogther & a few r Germany and Poland youth internationals If all of them r in the SEA Games, Vietnam will be super strong &
by bringing players from other countries VFF think they can solve the problem (improving the ability of the players in the national team to play soccer well, at least as well as Thailand's level or achieving their goal that is to capture the AFF championship trophy, let's assume they actually did get it, did it really reflect the reality that VNese could play excellent soccer on bar with Thailand or Singapore? the answer is big NO), fat chance! V-League has had ton of foreign players, but as you've seen, importing international players has not raised the level of skills of Viet national team as a whole. As you've seen them play games, the way they play soccer is pretty bad like how kids in kindergarden play soccer, running around like ducks lost their head) not like a professional soccer team would play, yet all of them got paid to play soccer professionally,.... fundamentally, they suck in everything from ball control to passing to defending ... speaking of defense, if one were an under dog, should one have to play well in defense that might improve his odds against a better opponents), Viet players have the tendency to stand around alot, not marking his man, or giving too much room, or four or five Viet players jump on one players of the opposite team. I believe this is the Viet's mentality: the goal is to score doesn't matter how it's scored ... but to improve one's chance to score, should he need to achieve to certain level of proficiency ? VFF is taking a shortcut to solve a huge problem by bringing players from other countries , they should attack the problem from the ground up, fundamentally, not from top to bottom by paying extravagant amount of money (in Vietnam standard) to bring foreign players in. is there such a thing the genetic makeup of Vietnamese is not wired to play soccer well? (mental aspect) hahahaah I refuse to accep the idea !
Haha, don't think we VNese are similar to those Singaporean. We do not importing players, they are half blood Vietnamese, every one of those has mother or father is a Vietnamese and now they come back to serve the nation. The VNese proud do not let too much foreigner in the national squad like those Singaporean. And talking about the way we Vietnamese play soccer, I think the results in AFF CUP and recent matches prove a lot. No need to make any comment. Only "short-circuit" guys should blame VN's defence now, they're simply incredible.
Now that's just flame-baiting. Everyone knows Vietnam is a homogenous society, and that Singapore was never a homogenous nation. We're made up of all sorts of races and ethnicities, like a mini-America. Hence, there's nothing wrong to a Singaporean like me, to see many ethnicities from all over the world playing for the Lions, as long as they are citizens, and willing to make a life and career here.
Is that still a homogenous nation Even history tell us the mixing of ethinic grp may be bigger than most expect as over the age many grp hve moved becos of wars or changing environment etc & each grp hve many mix from other Etc In china Jews discover a lost grp through DNA who looked totally chinese & acknowledged that it come through mixing over the age
Don't care about homogenous or not, the only thing should care is Vietnam NT is made of Vietnamese. That's all.