Posted by: Putera Emas on: May 1, 2008
SINGAPORE: Few expected any trouble for Home United on Wednesday night in their AFC Cup Group D clash with South China at Jalan Besar Stadium. Sticking to the script, the S.League giants eased to a 4-1 win over the Hong Kong champions and confirmed top spot in the group, with five wins out of five. [...]
Posted by: Putera Emas on: April 17, 2008
SINGAPORE : New Radiant coach Gerd Zeise vowed not to leave Jalan Besar Stadium empty handed in their AFC Cup Group E clash with SAFFC on Wednesday night, and his men worked hard to eke out a 1-1 draw. It looked as if they were heading for a defeat when John Wilkinson beat goalkeeper Aslam [...]
Posted by: Putera Emas on: April 3, 2008
SINGAPORE : Home United took their time seeing off the stubborn resistance provided by Maldivian club Victory SC in their AFC Cup tie on Wednesday night at Jalan Besar Stadium, with goals from Indra Sahdan and Peres de Oliveira giving them a 2-1 win. But the good result for the S.League club was clouded by [...]
Posted by: Putera Emas on: March 12, 2008
SINGAPORE : SAFFC romped to a 4-0 win over Hong Kong club Kitchee FC in their Group E tie in the AFC Cup first round on Tuesday at Jalan Besar Stadium. The Warriors raced to a 3-0 first-half lead. Jamil Ali, in fine form for the Warriors this season, grabbed a brace and Therdsak Chaiman [...]
Posted by: Putera Emas on: September 26, 2007
SINGAPORE : A 3-0 win on Tuesday night was not enough for SAFFC to overturn a 5-0 deficit from the first-leg of their AFC Cup quarter-final with Jordanian side Shabab Al-Ordun, crashing out 5-3 on aggregate. Things had looked promising for the Warriors when they were awarded a penalty after John Wilkinson was brought down [...]
Posted by: Putera Emas on: September 19, 2007
SINGAPORE : Champions Al-Faisaly showed their mettle when they defeated Tampines Rovers 2-1 in their first leg of their AFC Cup quarter-final clash at Tampines Stadium on Tuesday night. In a breathtaking encounter, there were two goals disallowed, a red card and plenty of goalmouth action besides the three goals to keep the 2,654 fans [...]
Posted by: Putera Emas on: August 22, 2007
SINGAPORE : A Mirko Grabovac brace, and a goal apiece from Sutee Suksomkit and Noh Alam Shah gave Tampines Rovers a 4-0 win over second-from-bottom Sengkang Punggol in an NTUC Income-Yeo’s S.League 2007 clash at Tampines Stadium on Tuesday night. The victory helped Tampines move within a point of the top two, SAFFC and Home [...]
Posted by: Putera Emas on: July 6, 2007
SINGAPORE: A second ASEAN Football Federation Cup win in 2007 means the Lions are a force to be reckoned with, in the region. They have gone on to show they can play against bigger teams, evident from results in the recent invitational tournament where Singapore beat North Korea, and had good showings against Saudi Arabia [...]
Posted by: Putera Emas on: June 7, 2007
Singapore’s 2008 S.League and Singapore Cup champions may well be facing top Asian clubs sides, such as Japan’s Urawa Reds and Iran’s Sepahan, in the Asian Football Confederation’s Champions League in 2009. Over the last two days, a team of officials from the Asian football body’s Pro League Ad-Hoc Committee have been surveying the various [...]
Posted by: Putera Emas on: May 22, 2007
SINGAPORE: Five days ago, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) proudly announced the induction of Aide Iskandar and S Subramani into Fifa’s Century Club. Current Singapore captain Aide has so far been capped 118 times, while Subramani, who retired after the Lions successfully defended their Asean championship earlier this year, starred for his country on [...]
