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Shebby Singh, former Malaysian defender and current football pundit on ESPN-Star, has accepted the position of Head - Football Development India/Asia at English Premier League club Blackburn Rovers. Back in June, he praised Indian firm Venky's take-over of Blackburn as fundamentally different from other recent changes in EPL club ownership, thanks to their plans of launching an academy and a

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According to a new survey, companies that invest in sponsorship outperform those that don't and companies that spend at above average rates on sponsorship ('super sponsors') also outperform those that spend at below average rates. The survey, led by Professor Jonathan A. Jensen of Columbia College Chicago and published by the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, analysed 50

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Sangmu Phoenix, the South Korean military football club playing in the country's professional K-League, could be expelled or relegated to a proposed new second division because of the ongoing match-fixing scandal plaguing the the Korea Football Association. The team's coach was arrested this week for allegedly accepting money from the parents of a player to keep quiet about their son's role in

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Taiwan's national football team has been invited to play a friendly against Singapore on 18 July, following its impressive 3-2 defeat of Malaysia in a recent 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier. Although Taiwan failed to advance to the second round due to insufficient aggregate goals, new coach Lee Tae Ho, a retired South Korean national footballer, said the enthusiasm shown by the more than 15,000

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England's Liverpool Echo imagined what sort of mania home town music heroes, The Beatles, could have generated in the China of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to describe the fan interest that Liverpool Football Club enjoyed during its recent exhibition game against Sunray Cave FC in the southern Chinese city of Guangdong. "The foyer of the team hotel, lined with marble and Liverpool

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A four-year  partnership agreement between the Football Association of Singapore and the Football Association of Malaysia will see an exchange of youth-based clubs in their respective domestic leagues and cup tournaments from 2012. Singapore will be represented in the Malaysian Super League, Malaysia Cup and FA Cup by the Singapore Lions, a team comprised of U-23 national players, five players

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The Western India Football Association, in its centenary year, has embarked on a program of qualifying 5,000 AIFF (All India Football Federation) certified coaches in the next three years. "There are currently 30 districts affiliated to WIFA, with more than 2000 clubs, 1500 school teams and around 500 college teams playing the sport," SportzPower reported. However, there are currently only 55

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The world football body, FIFA, has acknowledged the elections of a new Executive Committee of the Indonesia Football Association (PSSI) on 9 July 2011 and the election of Djohar Arifin Husin as the new PSSI president. According to a statement published on the FIFA website, the "elective congress, observed by FIFA, AFC and AFF, was conducted in accordance with the PSSI statutes and the FIFA

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The Chinese Football Association's National Team will return to the screens of China Central Television after the state-owned broadcaster signed a three-and-half year contract with the CFA’s commercial partner, China Football Industry Development Company/World Sport Group. CCTV's engagement with CFA Team China will begin with the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying match against Laos in Kunming on

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The world football body, FIFA, reports that its 2010 World Cup in South Africa was broadcast in every single country and territory on Earth, "including Antarctica and the Arctic Circle", generating record-breaking viewing figures in many TV markets around the world. "The in-home television coverage of the competition reached over 3.2 billion people around the world, or 46% of the global

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Scarred by its worst match-fixing scandal in its 28-year history, South Korea's 16-team, professional K-League will split into two divisions and move to a relegation and promotion system from 2013. Under the new system, the K-League will punish any club that has players found guilty of match rigging by deducting points earned from league games, by depriving clubs the right to compete in the AFC

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An innovative joint marketing effort by the All India Football Federation and the Pakistan Football Federation, will promote football to over 2 million of their countries' compatriates and their decendents living in England through three international friendlies. The series, to run from 25 August to 11 September with matches scheduled (but not yet confirmed) in Manchester, Coventry and London,

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Robbie Fowler, still the fourth-highest goalscorer in the history of the English Premier League despite retiring from that competition towards the end of 2008, has signed a one-year contact with defending Thai Premier League champions Muang Thong FC for a reported fee of $660,000. This will make him the highest paid player in Thailand's professional league. Fowler, who scored 120 goals for

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Keir Radnedge, editor for Sports Features Communications and chairman of the Football Commission of the International Sports Press Association, has uncovered the identity of the 'whistelblower' who alledged that Qatar had paid $1.5 million to three members of the FIFA Executive Committee to secure their votes for the hosting of the 2022 World Cup. Mr Radnedge also revealed that the person, Ms

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A Salafi parliamentarian, Waleed al-Tabtabai, has urged the government of Kuwait to prevent the country's football association from hosting a women's international indoors tournament. “Women playing football is unacceptable and contrary to human nature and good customs. The government has to step in and drop the tournament,” Kuwait’s Al Wasat newspaper quoted him as saying. Mr Tabtabai was one

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According to the Chinese Football Association, China had more than 650,000 players under the age of 18 registered in the early 1990s. That number plummeted to 7,000 at the end of last year. In comparison, Japan has 500,000. "Nowadays, I think there are at most 10 out of a thousand schools in China that support students to play soccer," China's former national football captain, Hao Haidong, told

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Ian Ayre, Managing Director of English Premier League football club Liverpool, has confirmed that "almost half" of the club's total revenue "now comes from international markets." Addressing questions from readers of The Star, a Malaysian newspaper, he explained that the club sourced local income in that coountry from "media revenue from the Premier League TV rights shown in Malaysia and from

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The £400 million stadium sponsorship deal of West Asian-based airline Etihad with English Premier League club Manchester City will face an investigation of the European continental football body, UEFA. Etihad Airways is the national airline of Abu Dhabi, whose ruler is the half-brotherof the football club's owner, Sheikh Mansour. UEFA will be checking to ensure that the sponsorship - which sees

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South Korean prosecutors have arrested almost 50 more players in connection the match-fixing scandal that has rocked the K-League, one of Asia's leading professional national leagues. The Changwon District Prosecutors' Office has announced that 46 players, including nine from South Korea's military side Sangmu Phoenix, were charged on Thursday in relation to the fixing of 15 matches from June

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European football clubs are visiting major Asia cities to earn a bigger slice of the region's growing wealth, Simon Thompson, East Asian head of Asian Football Confederation marketing partner, World Sport Group, told AFP. "They're like any brand, any modern-day company," he said. "Asia is a big part of the global economy now. Alongside Brazil and Russia, it's a huge growth market, and like any

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Standard Chartered Plc, the UK-based bank which earns more than 75% of its profit from Asia, has confirmed to Bloomberg news agency that its record 81.5 million pound, four-year sponsorship of English Premier League football club Liverpool, was conditional upon it visiting foreign markets. The club is about to start a tour that will include exhibition matches in China and Malaysia as well as an

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Venky’s, the publicly-listed subsidiary of India's Venkateshwara Hatcheries Group, has a series of football initiatives to coincide with the visit to Pune of the English Premier League club, Blackburn Rovers, which it bought for £46 million late last year. According to The Indian Express, Blackburn Rovers will become the first EPL club to visit India when they arrive in Mumbai on 21 July. They

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The next edition of the Supercoppa Italiana (Italian Super Cup) will be held on 6 August 2011 in China's National Stadium in Beijing, known as the 'Bird's Nest'. This year's contestants will provide a Milan/Milano derby - 'eternal rivals' AC Milan and Internazionale Milano - both of which have won the Cup five times since the competition began in 1988. The Cup is a pre-season football

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Following yesterday's announcement by FIFA, the world football body, that he would be called to appear before its Ethics Committee on 22 July, Mohamed bin Hammam has issued a personal plea for a "fair hearing." According to the suspended FIFA Executive Committee member and President of the Asian Football Confederation, his case has been affected "by persons who, along with their motivations,

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English Premier League football club Blackburn Rovers will be entertaining East Asian fans on 27 and 30 July when it participates in the EPL's Asian Trophy in Hong Kong, along with Aston Villa and Chelsea. Now, South Asian fans will get to see stars of the game on 23 July as Blackburn Rovers players make a stop-over in India to play alongside local U-16 players in a special youth tournament

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The world football body, FIFA, has announced that its Ethics Committee Panel will meet on 22 and 23 July to examine the cases of Mohamed bin Hammam, a FIFA Exco member and President of the Asian Football Confederation, and two Caribbean Football Union officials, Debbie Minguell and Jason Sylvester. On 29 May 2011 the Ethics Panel "provisionally suspended" all from taking part in any

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Chinese real estate giant Dalian Wanda Group, which pulled out of national soccer in 2000 in protest against systematic corruption, has returned to the game at its latest hour of need. A subsidiary of China National United Oil Corp, and backed by assets estimated at 140 billion yuan ($21.7 billion) in commercial properties, luxury hotels, chain stores and tourism, Wanda will take up the

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The Qatar Government has completed its 40 million euro takeover of French Ligue 1 football club, Paris St Germain. The deal, first announced in May, has been described as "cementing the gas exporter's links with the sport and [helping] prepare it for hosting the 2022 [FIFA] World Cup, whose award remains mired in controversy." The acquisition was "partly to provide knowledge transfer ahead of

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Mr Gianni Merlo, President of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) has called for members of the world's peak professional sports media body to join in the fight against manipulation and to defend their right of expression. Merlo has also urged the media to find innovative ways to harness and better exploit the use of new technologies in order to invest in culture. In a statement

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The South Korean government appears to be running out of patience with the growing football match-fixing controvery and is threatening to shut down the country's professional competition, the K-League. Last week K-League administrators pro-actively banned 10 players for life for fixing matches, prior to  the courts dealing with them on criminal charges. Earlier, South Korean sports were warned

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The poor performance of China's national team is a concern for the entire Asian football family, the recent World Sport Group data on television audiences for the AFC Asian Cup disclosed this week. From an audience of 748 million in 2004 when China was a cup finalist, Asian Cup viewership has dived with that country's fading fortunes: 655 million in 2007 and 484 million in 2011. China's U-23

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There was a time when Hong Kong used to be the envy of Asian football. The territory hosted the first Asian Football Confederation Asian Cup in 1956 with its team finishing a creditable third. This was followed with a fourth place in 1964 and, from the 1950s to the 1980s, the Hong Kong team was one of the highest ranked teams in Asia. Domestic attendances averaged between 15,000-20,000 spectators

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FIFA Ethics Committee member and decorated Australian football commentator, Les Murray, has withdrawn allegations made in his new book that Australian captain Lucas Neill had instructed his team mates to defy the orders of the then Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek immediately prior to the 2011 FIFA World Cup game against Germany in Durban last year. “In the light of new information that has come to

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English football was shocked by the arrest in Hong Kong of Carson Yeung Ka-sing, the chief and single-largest shareholder of Birmingham City FC's HKSE-listed holding company, Birmingham International Holdings, an investment, entertainment and sportswear firm registered in the Cayman Islands. BIH shares were suspended from trading. Yeung was arrested by narcotics bureau investigators at his home

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The Asian Football Confederation's exclusive marketing and media partner, Lagardere's Singapore-based subsidiary,  World Sport Group, has released selected data on the television audiences of the finals of the  2011 AFC Asian Cup played in Qatar during 7–29 January 2011. The figures indicate a significantly declining trend in the television audience when China and South East Asian countries are

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A former South Korea goal-keeper has now admitted involvement in K-League match-fixing. According to Ahn Gi-Heaon, the league's Secretary General, the player, now with Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, admitted he engaged in match-fixing schemes last season when he was playing for Chunnam Dragons. “The goal-keeper first informed his Jeonbuk head coach Choi Kang-Hee ... After speaking with Lee Chul-Geun,

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THE Bahrain Football Association faces FIFA scrutiny after veteran international Mohamed Hubail was convicted by Bahrain's security court of attending anti-government demonstrations and sentenced to two years in prison. His brother, Alaa Hubail, is also under trial in the same closed-doors court. The brothers were detained by authorities in April for their participation in protests against

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British sports journalist Andrew Warshaw has reported in the Inside World Football newsletter that sources close to the FIFA Ethics Committee's case against Asian Football Confederation President Mohamed bin Hammam "have indicated" that the Qatari, accused of paying cash bribes to 25 Caribbean FIFA members in exchange for votes, "will almost certainly be banned for life and be forced to go to

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Two year's after its creation, Myanmar's Premier League is reportedly struggling to lure fans. "In 2009 there were big crowds, now it's half," one league club manager, who did not want to be named, told Alex Delamare of AFP. "There are maybe five or ten good players in Myanmar," he said, explaining that new investment in training facilities and relatively high player salaries will take time to

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Punjab-based JCT, the first champions of India's National Football League in 1996, will follow Mahindra United, winners of the League in 2006, in disbanding their senior club to focus on youth development. "Now, there is not a single I-League club in North India, after Indian Arrows, formerly based in Delhi, decided to shift base to Kolkata," noted Deepak Vikraman in Deccan Herald. “This

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Julian Kam is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Malaysian subsidiary of his Hong Kong-based company, ProEvents, by organising visits by English Premier League clubs Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea to play against a Malaysian selection in Kuala Lupur over eight days in July. In an interview with Eric Samuel in The Star, he recalled how he finally managed to arrange Manchester United’s

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The interim committee of the United Arab Emirates' professional football league has decided against increasing the number of teams in the competition to 14 from the current 12, while agreeing to a three-plus-one quota for foreign professionals, with all four being allowed on the pitch. Meeting for the first time under the chairmanship of Saeed Abdul Gaffar Hussain, the five-person committee also

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The Chinese Football Association has apologised for its Olympic team's early exit from the 2012 London Olympics qualifying rounds. "We are sorry that the Chinese U-23 team missed the opportunity to claim a berth at the London Olympics after losing to Oman," the CFA said in a newsletter posted on its official website as quoted by China Daily. "We sincerely apologize to the fans and take

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Malaysian-listed Genting Group has become the shirt sponsor for English Premier League club, Aston Villa. Its subsidiary, Genting UK, the largest operator of casinos in Britain, entered into an agreement to have the Genting mark and logo on both Villa's home and away shirts. Genting UK executive deputy chairman Peter Brooks in a press statement said the sponsorship was “a natural fit” and marked

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English Premier League champions Manchester United expects continued growth in Asia to drive sales of merchandise and revenue from commercial agreements. With more than 190 million fans in Asia, out of nearly 300 million around the world, the region had become "very important" to the team, Commercial Director Richard Arnold told Reuters during a press conference to promote MU's Asia Trophy Tour.

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Lu Kun-Shan, President of Taiwan's Chinese Taipei Football Association, has announced an ambititious football program for the island nation which includes the formation of a professional league by 2018 and a FIFA top 100 ranking by 2019. Lu also spoke of his ambition for his country to reach the World Cup finals by 2038, and expects the Asian Football Confederation's Vision Asia program to be

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In its first meeting for its 2011-2015 term, the Vision Asia Committee of the Asian Football Confederation recommended revisions to the program to the AFC Executive Committee. Following a request from the All India Football Federation, Visian India projects will be started with the cities of Mumbai, Pune and Chandigarh in the first phase, rather than in collaboration with State football

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Pakistan's home FIFA World Cup qualifier against Bangaldesh, the first major sporting event to be held in the country since the religious terrorist attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in March 2009, will be broadcast live on national television. “The Pakistan-Bangladesh clash will be aired live from PTV channel while we are also trying to air it from Geo Super,” Pakistan

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FIFA has shocked the world's football community by dropping corruption procedures against Jack Warner, the suspended Executive Committee member and president of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) following his sudden resignation from all positions in international football. FIFA's official communique stated: "Jack A Warner has informed FIFA

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Executives of A-League club Perth Glory gave supporters and members an insight into sports marketing at a 'Fans Forum' today, illustrated by public disclosure of the costs of fielding a professional football club based in the state of Western Australia. According to a report by Neil Sherwin in The Football Sack, Chief Executive Paul Kelly said it now costs between A$8.5-$9.0 million per year to

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If betting on football was legal in Malaysia, the most popular game this month would surely be which of three English Premier League clubs visiting Kuala Lumpur in July will attract the biggest attendance at the 80,000-capacity National Stadium in Bukit Jalil. Malaysian selections will play Arsenal on 13 July, Liverpool on 16 July and Chelsea on 21 July and organisers have set the same ticket

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On the eve of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, Awista Ayub, author of 'The Kabul Girls Soccer Club', explains how football can "change the world" through the example of Abiha Haider of Islamabad, Pakistan. At 15 she is the youngest member of Pakistan's first women's national team, an impressive feat, but more interesting is her age when she was first selected for the team: "I was 12 at that time

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Cardiff City, a football club playing in the English Championship but based in the capital city of Wales, has rejected local sponsorship for its kit in favour of promoting a South East Asian country. Last year, Malaysian tycoon Tan Sri Vincent Tan became the biggest and controlling shareholder of the club when he and his business partner Datuk Chan Tien Ghee bought a 36.7% stake for over £6

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The Football Association of Thailand (FAT) has re-elected Worawi Makudi as its President for a third term. Mr Worawi received 123 out of 168 votes. Former national football team manager Virat Charnpanich received 44 votes and former Thai Port FC chairman Pichate Munkong received one vote. Mr Worawi is also a FIFA Executive Committee member.

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The Japan Football Association has confirmed that the world football body, FIFA, will donate about $6 million in aid to J-League clubs affected by the disastrous 11 March earthquake and tsunami. Several clubs, whose stadiums were damaged by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami, will receive $4.5 million for repairs, JFA President Junji Ogura said. The remaining $1.5 million will go

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Comparing the business potential of football in the world's most populace countries, International Football Arena Ltd's Chairman Marcel Schmid said India could become one of the most lucrative markets of the game. "Everybody around the world knows the potential that India has with its millions of young people who are interested in sports ... India is a sleeping football giant," he said, adding

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A FIFA investigation into allegations of corruption linked to its recent presidential election may be extended to interview two further Executive Committee members. A "well-placed source" has told David Owen of the online newsletter, Inside World Football, that Asian delegates Worawi Makudi of Thailand and Sri Lanka's Manilal Fernando may be probed. "While there is no suggestion that either man

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The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has detained a Selangor state football coach over match-fixing during the President's Cup U-20 youth tournament and charged Singaporean R.K. Rajendran, a bookie, with match-fixing in connection with the same tournament. Another football coach, from Negeri Sembilan state, Yusarman Yusof, was charged with match-fixing earlier this month. "We urge

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Nobuyuki Uenoyama, head of the J.League's technical committee, says the league has to face up to the fact that it has a serious problem with its youth development. "Most of the people who trained the Samurai Blue into who they are today are high school teachers," he told Shinichi Chubachi of the Asahi Shimbun. "Our J.League training system has many issues regarding instruction and its ability to

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Tan Sri Annuar Musa, Deputy President of the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM), has announced that a national women's football league will kick off next year with a similar format to the men's Malaysian League. “I am confident that the idea will be well received [by] the states," he told Bemama news agency. FAM will be holding a national level women’s football carnival on 23 July to

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Asian Football Confederation Vice-President Moya Dodd, attended the AFC U-14 Girls’ Festival of Football in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and shared her views with the AFC's Ngo Tien Thanh on ways to develop women’s football in Asia: Q: What is the most difficult problem the AFC and member associations are facing in its efforts to develop women’s football in Asia at the moment? A: I think it is at

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The former Netherlands star, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, who captained his country at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, will visit his mother's homeland, Indonesia, to play in an exhibition game on 22 June. Van Bronckhorst will turn out for the International Stars, a side featuring the top foreign players from the official Indonesian Super League and the breakaway Indonesian Premier League,

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Newly-appointed, but interim, Indian football coach Armando Colaco presented to the media to defend and explain his "new beginning" program for India's international campaigns. "Youngsters need experience and for that there has to be a beginning. I have a lot of respect for the seniors and they will be call back if they perform well. But then again, I have to begin, and the federation will stand

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To work at FIFA as a Brand Manager your duties will include: Manage marketing or brand management related projects Manage the development and drive the marketing of key event-related brands for FIFA competitions (e.g. logos, mascots, posters, slogans, badges) Manage or assist with brand-related events such as launch campaigns, handover ceremonies etc. Initiate and conceptualize strategic brand

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Pakistan national players Naveed Akram and Mahmood Ali became the first Pakistani-based footballers to play for a football club abroad in decades. They joined Nepali league newcomers Saraswoti Youth Club FC on a two-month loan deal from Pakistan Premier League champions WAPDA. FootballPakistan.Com caught up with Akram and asked a few questions about his and Mehmood's experiences in Nepal. FPDC:

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Khalida Popal, captain of Afghanistan's national women's football team, is persevering against family pressure and threats of violence, to represent her war-torn country. "I love football and football is everything for me and when I come and feel the football I forget everything and I become very happy when I see my team", she told CNN. As there are no other female teams to play against at

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In football is said that West Asia has great facilities but small crowds and East Asia has the opposite. In Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Phil Anderton is finding out how to resolve the West Asian dilemma of "filling an empty [30,000-red-seat] stadium in the desert". CEO of Al Jazira FC, winner, for the first time, of the UAE's league and cup double, Anderton talked recently to Ashley Hammond

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All India Football Federation (AIFF) is shifting its developmental side, the Indian Arrows, to Calcutta for the new I-League season, sources have told The Telegraph. Ten of India's U-23 team are currently members of the Arrows, which was formed last season to prepare for the 2018 FIFA World Cup campaign. After playing from Gurgaon and finishing ninth in the recently concluded I-League, the

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In his first day as Acting President of the Asian Football Confederation, Mr Zhang Jilong spoke from the Kuala Lumpur headquarters to China's official news agency, Xinhua, about his vision and responsibilities: "The Asian Football Club has come a long way, from having only 12 members when it was first established in 1954 to 46 members at present," he said. "There are shortcomings in standards of

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Sixteen teams will compete at the sixth FIFA Women’s World Cup in Germany 26 June through to 17 July. Two-time defending world champions Germany are in Pool A with Canada, Nigeria and France. Japan, New Zealand, Mexico and England make up pool B while United States , North Korea, Colombia and Sweden are in pool C. Pre-tournament favourites Brazil, Australia, Equitoral Guinea and Norway are in

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JCB International, the international operations subsidiary of JCB, the only global payment brand based in Japan, has signed with the Vietnam Football Federation to sponsor Vietnam's national football team. Apart from branding opportunities available through the team and stadium, JCBI and VFF are also discussing the issuance of co-branded cards. Vietnam is one of JCB's key target markets

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The Asian Football Confederation's Senior Vice-President Zhang Jilong formally assumed office as AFC Acting President. In accordance with the AFC Statutes, China’s Zhang took over, provisionally, from AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam, on 29 May 2011, following the decision of the Ethics Committee of the world body, FIFA, to suspend Mr Bin Hammam pending a hearing on corruption charges. “We are

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The Glazer family, the American owners of Manchester United FC, have held talks with several investment banks on a scheme to list the English Premier League champions on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Bankers have reportedly advised that the listing could value the club at £1.7 billion ($2.6 billion), more than double what the Glazers paid for the club in 2005. Birmingham City FC, recently

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The often mooted ASEAN Super League – a regular competition featuring the best football clubs from amongst South East Asia’s 10 nations – is unlikely to be further discussed until next year. The FA of Singapore formally proposed the ASL in 2006 but, as yet, has been unable to confirm support from the major ASEAN Football Federation members. Even the AFF’s Southeast Asian Champions League,

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The world's most famous football club with no senior team - the New York Cosmos - will play a friendly against Manchester United at Old Trafford on 5 August as a testimonial for former player Paul Scholes. The Cosmos' team will be personally selected by Honorary President Pelé and Director of Soccer Eric Cantona and will include "highly notable international players and a handful of elite Cosmos

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Following FIFA’s decision to lift its suspension on Brunei, the newly renamed National Football Association of Brunei Darussalam (NFABD) has appointed former FIFA referee Mohd Noor Abdullah, 62, as its new general secretary. He served as an employee of the Department of Youth and Sports for 30 years and has been a FIFA and AFC referee and a match commissioner. He is also an ex-president of three

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Jordan's Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein has responded to an Australian blogger who quiried whether the new FIFA Vice-President would represent all of Asia or increase the split between the east and west of football's largest continental organisation, the Asian Football Confederation. Writing in the online version of Australia's Four Four Two magazine, Paul Williams observed: "As control of Asian

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From European Lotteries via Internatiomnal Sports Press Association: At their General Assembly in Helsinki on Wednesday 8 June, Europe's state lotteries committed to further concrete action to help sport protect its competitions from manipulations associated with sport betting, an issue which is currently at the top of the agenda of all European and international sport governing bodies

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South Korean prosecutors have now charged 10 K-League players for allegedly fixing results in the country's top football league. According to  BBC News, eight of the players play for the Daejeon Citizen club which lost a match to the Pohang Steelers on 6 April by a score of 0-3. Brokers and players from other teams have also been charged. One Daejeon Citizen player is accused of receiving 120

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Jakarta FC, one of the capital city clubs of Indonesia's breakaway Premier League (LPI), has signed a two-year sponsorship agreement with UK apparel company, Mitre. Mr Lie Lie Lien, CEO of PT Matahari Terbit Indoraya, Mitre's licensee and distributor in Indonesia, said "all the apparel needs of Jakarta FC players will be supplied by Mitre, for both home games and away games." Mitre has also

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UK-listed Findel plc is reportedly considering 'demerging' Kitbag, its online retailer of sportswear and official football kits. The subsidiary manages the online retail operations for several European clubs, including Barcelona, Manchester United and Real Madrid. Last year it recorded revenues of £58 million, up from £48 million, and made operating profits of £1.87 million, up 9%. On Monday

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Well-travelled French football manager Philippe Troussier has offered advice to the Chinese Football Association on creating a new environment for football in the world's most populace country. "Is soccer a great event in China? I'm not sure," he told the China Daily, adding that, in Europe 80% of attendees go to the stadium just because they want to attend a match, like going to a movie or a

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The All India Football Federation is currently in talks with Netherlands-based sports group, Orange Sports Forum, to obtain technical assistance to overhaul India’s football system. “The talks with OSF were very fruitful and they would be coming India later this month to give us a presentation,” general secretary Kushal Das told The Telegraph on his return from Amsterdam. “They are keen on a tie

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South Korean sports suspected of having been penetrated by match fixers will no longer receive proceeds from Sports Toto, the country's sole legal sports betting agency, and bookies will face tougher punishment for illegal activities. According to The Dong-A Ilbo, the Sports Ministry has announced stricter measures against match fixing including revising the National Sports Promotion Act to

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The collective turnover of the English Premier League clubs hit a record £2.03 billion in the 2009-10 season and is expected to exceed £2.2 billion in the 2010-11 campaign, according to Deloitte Sports Business Group's 20th Annual Review of Football Finance. In comparison, the total European football market grew to a record £13.3 billion in 2009-10, with Germany (£1.4 billion), Spain and Italy (

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An agreement regarding trade union rights in factories in Indonesia has been hailed as "historic" by the International Trade Union Confederation, the representative body of more than 175 million workers in 151 countries and territories. The pact was signed by Indonesian textile, clothing and footwear unions, major supplier factories and the major sportswear brands, including Adidas, Nike and

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From The Coalition of Major Professional and Participation Sports (COMMPS) via the International Sports Press Association: Australia’s seven major pro sports have called for sports corruption to be made a crime with penalties of up to 10 years jail for very serious cases of corruption. They outlined their concerns to Federal Sports Minister, Senator Mark Arbib, who will take the proposal to a

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Argentina and Venezuela will meet in a 'South American derby' on 2 September 2011 at the Saltlake Stadium in Kolkata, India. Argentina will also fly across the sub-continent to play a friendly against Nigeria in the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, on 6 September. "The Argentina Football Association has indeed signed a contract to bring in the full-strength squad

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A soft drink manufacturer is reportedly bringing the English FA Cup and two famous players to Indonesia. According to Antara, Indonesia's official news agency, Bryan Robson and Steve McMohan, former Manchester United and Liverpool players, respectively, will visit Indonesia on 24-26 with the FA Cup. Jorge Lopez Doriga, chief marketing officer of AJE, producer of Big Cola, was quoted as saying

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European club champion, FC Barcelona, is to send a high-level delegation to India to assess market opportunities. "We are analysing our strategic plan on how we tackle the Indian market for the next five years. Our president Sandro Rosell will lead a team to India in September. We need to know how can the FC Barcelona brand can be expanded in the Indian market and what does it demand from the

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Falko Goetz has signed a two-year contract to manage Vietnam's national football team. He will lead the team through the qualifying rounds for the London 2012 Olympics and the 2014 FIFA World Cup and will also oversee the under-23 squad in November's South East Asian Games in Indonesia. Goetz's playing career included stints at Bayer Leverkusen and other German clubs as well as Turkish side

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Language is a significant barrier to raising coaching standards to international levels in women's football in East and South East Asia. This was noted by the Asian Football Confederation's project manager, Dr Shamil Kamil, who conducted a Head Coach Workshop for the AFC U-14 Girls’ Festival of Football at Vietnam's Thanh Long Sports Centre. Communications was a key component of the workshop

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Available tickets for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match between the Azkals - the Philippines’ national football team - and Sri Lanka on 3 July 2011 in Manila were sold out within two hours of being on sale. The game, which is the second leg of the first round World Cup qualifiers, will be played at the Rizal Memorial Stadium. The Philippine Football Federation made 18,000 tickets

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Fifteen football stars will join Manchester United's Park Ji-sung in an Asian "Dream Cup" match against V-League club, Navibank SaiGon, in HCM City's Thong Nhat Stadium on 15 June. Korean Wave stars JYJ will perform during half-time and actress Han Hye-jin will attend. Park will also hold a clinic for young footballers. The 'Park and Friends team' will include GK: Eiji Kawashima (Lierse, Japan);

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The Australian state of Victoria is currently experiencing an immigration boom with many new settlers arriving, particularly from the Horn of Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan and Burma (including Karen people). Football Federation Victoria is providing a community integration program, United Through Football, to promote diversity and social connection through football. In the first five months of

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Prince Nawaf bin Faisal, the president of the Saudi Arabia Football Association, reportedly sees the suspension of Mr Mohamed bin Hammam from the FIFA executive committee and the presidency of the Asian Football Confederation as an international rather than regional issue. Mr Bin Hammam has been temporarily suspended from all football positions by the FIFA Ethics Committee pending an

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According to the 7.30 program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Football Federation Australia has "issued a statement saying it has expressed concern about the World Cup bid process being flawed, and that while major reform of FIFA is overdue, it didn't see much merit in making an empty gesture alongside a small minority at the congress."

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"As suspended Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam departs Zurich fighting bribery allegations, soccer in his continent of Asia struggles to combat match-fixing, violence and money issues that threaten to tarnish the Qatari's belief that the future is Asia," a Reuters report has concluded. It reviewed Asia's current problems including: Match-fixing uncovered in South Korea

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The 61st FIFA Congress, just concluded in Zurich, provides for FIFA, the continental confederations and national associations to charge license fees for friendly league, club and 'scratch' games held outside of home countries. The Congress ratified a number of amendments to the FIFA Statutes. Official Articles 73 and 78 to 80 were amended "to have clearer provisions regarding the authorisation

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FIFA president, Mr Joseph S. Blatter, was re-elected for a fourth term of office until 2015 by the 61st FIFA Congress, held in Zurich. Standing without an opponent, Mr Blatter received 186 of the 203 votes cast by member associations in a secret ballot. The FIFA president spoke about the need for transparency and “zero tolerance” in the fight against the dangers that threaten football. The

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