Singapore coach Radojko Avramovic has called up a squad of 25 to begin preparations for the 37th King’s Cup in Bangkok, Thailand (24–30 Dec) and the ASEAN Football Championship (12 Jan–4 Feb 2007). Singapore will play Kazakhstan, Vietnam and hosts Thailand at the King’s Cup and will begin their defence of the ASEAN Football Championship on home soil in January having been drawn in Group B with Vietnam , Laos and Indonesia. Centralised training begins on 10 December with the squad scheduled to fly out to Bangkok on 22 December.There is a first senior call-up for SAFFC fullback Hafiz Osman after the 22-year-old’s assured performances for the U-23s at the recent Asian Games, AFCMedia reported.