Singapore is ASEAN champions while China is EAFF champions & we both cannot be overthrown before we meet in the Asian Cup games So it is meeting of Champions on August 16 & September 6
Is Singapore putting any real money behind its soccer programs? Would be great to see a strong Singapore side.
Here are FAS 2005 expenditure & it does not include the Fifa Goal programme we are under where US$1million is spend on youth programme in Singapore for 3 years. Expenditure: Operating expenses - $2,309,880 Football development expenses - $2,953,934 SSC levies & charges - $251,288 Organizing and travelling expenses - $2,261,163 National Team training cost - $1,788,238 Incentives and awards - $539,322 Overseas conferences/meetings - $12,971 Referees committee expenses - $24,588 Domestic football league expenses - $82,458 Singapore Professional Football League - $9,256,151 Women's football - $472,26
Association of South East Asian Nations (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Phillipines, not sure if anyone else is in there)
I confess I can't make much sense out of these numbers on their own, maybe someone (Greenlion? ) has the numbers of a different country as a comparison?
I think that comes out to about $4-5 spent on soccer development for every man, woman and child living in Singapore. Granted a lot of those costs for overhead, levies etc., but for a country like the US we have to spend about $1.5B USD on soccer development annually to have that kind of ratio.
Operating expenses - $2,309,880 Football development expenses - $2,953,934 Organizing and travelling expenses - $2,261,163 National Team training cost - $1,788,238 Incentives and awards - $539,322 Singapore Professional Football League - $9,256,151 These are more related to the football programmes but like mcontento say they have a lot of overheads in them so distorted All these are used for Lions City Cup (Singapore age-group competitions) , NFA & COEs (Youth developments by FAS & clubs), COEs Leagues (U14, U16, U18), Prime League (U23) & S-league etc The Sport School is funded by SSC & Government.
who could have known the August 16 (Tianjin, China)& September 6 (Singapore) meeting would now be so crucial in the Group of death Singapore & China both cannot play away so which team gain an away point will take a step toward 1 of the 2 slot for AC 2007 finals