Singapore to take on Myanmar and Laos in June

By on May 24, 2013 in Press Release

Two matches lined up following the cancellation of Causeway Challenge 2013 SINGAPORE, 24 May 2013: The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) today announced that the Singapore National Team will play international friendly matches in Yangon (Myanmar) and Vientiane (Laos) on June 4 and June 7 respectively. The matches were scheduled after the Football Association of [...]

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It was a brave effort by the Singapore Selection side according to Sundram. Photo: Leo Shengwei

Sundram proud despite Atletico defeat

By on May 23, 2013 in Singapore Football

Singapore Selection coach V. Sundramoorthy was proud of his charges despite seeing them fall to a 2-0 loss to Atletico Madrid on Wednesday. Facing off against the newly-crowned Copa del Rey champions for the Peter Lim Charity Cup, the Singaporeans showed good resistance but fell behind in the 29th minute through an emphatic finish by [...]

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Ilhan Fandi Ahmad is heading to Argentina for a two-week stint with River Plate

Argentina beckons for Ilhan Fandi Ahmad

By on May 23, 2013 in Singapore Football

It just gets better for Fandi Ahmad’s children. Fandi became Singapore’s first ever local footballer to score in European competitions and his sons are well on the right track, to follow their father’s footsteps. While his two sons Irfan and Ikhsan just returned from their three-month stint with Spanish side Hercules, the Singapore football legend’s [...]

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Atletico Madrid celebrate their victory

Atletico Madrid claim Peter Lim Charity Cup

By on May 23, 2013 in Singapore Football

  Reigning Copa del Rey champions Atletico Madrid cruised to a 2-0 win over a Singapore Selection side on Wednesday to win the Peter Lim Charity Cup. Match report by our special correspondent at the Jalan Besar Stadium.   Raul Garcia opened the scoring a minute before the half-hour mark with an emphatic finish, but [...]

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Home United Prime League squad 2013

Prime League season 2013 – Since we last met: Story two

By on May 22, 2013 in Corinthian Corner

  Two more weekends of Prime League matches have been played since we did our first review of the season and there’s still a real scrap for supremacy going on at the top of the table. Geylang led Home United by a single point going into the latest weekend, ahead of NFA Reds with Balestier [...]

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Albirex Niigata (white/blue/black) fell to yet another defeat.

Albirex leave empty-handed after possible rare blunder

By on May 20, 2013 in Corinthian Corner

Photo by Leo Shengwei. Friday night’s Great Eastern-YEO’S S. League televised match at Jalan Besar Stadium had a lot riding on it. Second-placed Albirex Niigata , with still some work to do to catch leaders Tampines Rovers, probably felt that they were entitled to favouritism, having already beaten Home United 2-1 on the same ground [...]

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Jozef Kaplan (left) ensured the Eagles went home with a point with his seventh goal of the season. aXrosstheline.com File photo

Geylang fight back to hold 10-man Balestier

By on May 17, 2013 in S-League 2013

In football, a two-goal lead seems insufficient for any team. For the opening forty-five minutes of the Great Eastern Yeo’s S-League tie between Geylang International and Balestier Khalsa held at the Bedok Stadium on Thursday night, neutrals can be forgiven if they had thought that the Tigers will stroll to an easy victory. Paul Cunningham, [...]

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Benrd Stanger at the Jalan Besar Stadium. Photo courtesy of FAS

FAS appoint Stange as National team coach

By on May 16, 2013 in Singapore Football

Months after three-time ASEAN Football Championships winning coach Radojko Avramovic ended his 10 year tenure with the Singapore National team, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) finally found a replacement for the 63-year old Serbian. 65-year old Bernd Stange, a German, has been appointed head Coach of the Singapore national football team after penning a [...]

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Fazrul Nawaz (red no.10) heading home LionsXII's third and final goal of the game.

Eighth straight home victory for LionsXII

By on May 12, 2013 in MSL 2013

Despite being forced off the pitch and hence disrupting the final preparations of the team on the eve of this Malaysia Super League (MSL) tie against T-Team, LionsXII had no problems overcoming their opponents as they registered a thumping 3-0 win to return to the top of the MSL table after ATM FA had briefly [...]

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One of the amateur team stepping onto the pitch while LionsXII's training session was on going on Friday evening.

LionsXII face training ground drama on eve of MSL game

By on May 11, 2013 in Commentary

On the eve of their eighth home game of the season in the Malaysia Super League, LionsXII faced training ground drama as the hosts were forced to cut short their training session in order to make way for two amateur teams believed to be part of the Armed Forces that were supposed to face off [...]

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