Singapore names German to coach National team.

AFP
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
SINGAPORE - Singapore on Wednesday named Bernd Stange of Germany as head coach of the national team, replacing Serbian Radojko Avramovic, who led the city-state to three Southeast Asian championships.

Sixty-five-year-old Stange's career includes leading Belarus during the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying campaign where they defeated France in an away qualifier.

Under his watch, Belarus saw victory over the Netherlands and draws against traditional football powerhouses Germany and Argentina.

The country saw its FIFA ranking rise to 36 in 2011, from 90th place in 2008.

"The post of National Team Head Coach is always a challenging one for any coach - more so in a country like Singapore where football is the number one sport and whose national team are now champions of the region," said Stange, who also coached Iraq and the former East Germany.

"I am deeply honoured to have been appointed from a pool of more than 100 qualified candidates."

President of the Football Association of Singapore, Zainudin Nordin, described Stange as "one of the most respected coaches in Europe today".

He said the German "brings with him a wealth of international experience, ability and track record of building and managing successful teams despite the constraints".

Stange replaces Avramovic, who stepped down last year after leading Singapore to three championships in the Suzuki Cup, a biennial event organised by the ASEAN Football Federation.

Singapore is ranked 165 in the world by FIFA.

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Asean to bid for 2034 World Cup

KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 (Bernama) -- Asean will bid for the 2034 FIFA World Cup said Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) Deputy President Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah.

Tengku Abdullah who is also a member of the Asean Football Federation (AFF) said he was asked to chair a committee at the Asean level for the 2034 World Cup bidding process.

He said the decision was based on a consensus by Sports Ministers of Asean countries and the committee would convene a meeting with representatives from Asean countries on June 19.

"The proposal and draft are ready but we will look at other details before announcing the details of the meeting because 2034 is still a long way to go.

"I spoke to FIFA President Sepp Blatter regarding the bidding process and received feedback that the bidding will start eight years before the actual tournament," he told reporters after launching the FAM-FRENZ Asia Cup Under-15 competition at Wisma FAM, here, today.

Tengku Abdullah hoped Malaysia would be able to mould a world class team to prepare for the challenges ahead through a National agenda which will include the setting up of more clubs in the country.

Brazil will host the 2014 World Cup.

Meanwhile, the FAM-FRENZ Asia Cup which offers US$50,000 (RM155,000) and held from May 25 to Sept 8, will feature 12 teams from 11 Asean countries.

Matches would be played on a home and away basis.

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Artificial Turf launches in Vientiane

First Artificial turf  football field launches in  Vientiane Technical  college  Sapha visha. It's the first big and standard artificial turf that has launch in Laos which can be played with 11 players .

Source:socio-eco

The results of Lao premier league last weekend.

as I can see from the level of teams in the Lao premier league, the weak teams such as Eastern stars, Friend Development Fc, their levels are totally different with the big clubs as SHB champasak or HA-attapeu or Yotha Fc which these teams have hired many good players from the country and aboard. I have seen many results of leagues around the world and the leagues around the ASEAN or Asia.  the weak  team sometimes lose about 5-6 goals, but not 9 or 10 goals in a game. as the result, I can say that, the level of  Laos football development  is still different with others. Laos has a few good players in the National team who those hired by the big club. so what about the small Club that they dont have money to buy the good players?  the small club they will lose the dozen goals in a game.

Last weekended Results:

Laolanxang Fc: 0:3 Police Fc

Ha-attapeu  14: 0  Friend development Fc

Yotha Fc  9:0  Eastern stars Fc

SHB.champasak Fc 2:0 Ezra Fc

Laos U13: Laos took 3rd place in Thailand

According to Lao premier League facebook page, Laos U13 took 3rd place at the Thailand invistation u-13 

which totally 8 teams from seven countries have participated. the champion is awarded to Thailand B, the runner is awarded to Thailand A.