Asian Football

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40 minutes ago, Devon Von Devon said:

Is that even allowed playing and coaching at the same time ??

No. But since he's not being paid, AFC says it's alright.

[Azeem]

1 minute ago, nudge said:

No. But since he's not being paid, AFC says it's alright.

What if you play and coach for the same team ?

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Just now, Devon Von Devon said:

What if you play and coach for the same team ?

That's allowed and also quite common (especially in lower leagues) as there's no conflict of interests!

[Azeem]

After a ban of three years miracles wasn't expected from this coach and to be honest its a bit to early to judge his performance but we have been abysmal in these Asian Games. 

The thing with NT managers is that you must hire someone who knows the football in the country and for teams like us or other minnow Asian nations who don't have much to none foreign coaches in the national football system local coaches are the best option for the post of NT manager. Sure their CV is nowhere near to some South American or European coach but neither are the players they will manage really that special.

The perfect approach for teams like us is to hire the best local option as the NT manager while hire a foreign technical manager who knows the football of Asian region, who studies other teams of the region and guides the head coach for international competitions.

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                                                    Turkish Club Izmirspor signs Pakistani footballer Kaleemullah.

 

26 year old Pakistan’s top footballer Kaleemullah has signed for Turkish Club Izmirspors on Saturday.

After completing a transfer from another Turkish Club Ardhanspor the Pakistani star has started a new chapter in his career.

Turkish media that, Kaleemullah, who is a versatile winger , signed with the club during a ceremony attended by President Mustafa Gürkan.

Kaleem, is the best Pakistani footballer of the national lot and has played for KRL from 2009 to 2014 before playing abroad in various clubs.

He has also played for American Clubs Sacramanto Republic and Tulsa Roughnecks before coming to Turkey in 2017.

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SAFF cup starts today. We play Nepal in the opening fixture. 

I hope someone shows the tournament here. 

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Nepal 1-2 Pakistan 

Nepal equalised late in the game after our player converted a penalty to put us in the lead in the first half, but we scored an injury time winner to grab three points. 

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Bangladesh 2-0 Bhutan

Bhutan has improved a lot over the years all other SAFF nations used to score goals against them for practice.

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India won 2-0 against Sri Lanka the other day.

Today

Nepal vs Bhutan 

Bangladesh vs Pakistan

 

[Azeem]

 We need to win 3-0 at least to go through without worrying about the Nepal vs Bangladesh match today.

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3 hours ago, Devon Von Devon said:

 We need to win 3-0 at least to go through without worrying about the Nepal vs Bangladesh match today.

And we did that exactly

[Azeem]

Nepal won 2-0 vs Bangladesh meaning they will qualify as group winners while we progress to the semis as runner ups having better GD than the hosts. We are likely to play India in the semi final.

[Azeem]

Semi Finals are on September 12th

Nepal will play Maldives while India will face us later in the day

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AFC U16 about to start. I'll be watching.

I expect Japan, S. Korea, Vietnam and Iran to qualify.

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Opening game in the AFC U16 tournament to qualify for Peru 2019, Malaysia are currently smashing Tajikistan. 6-1, and Malaysia has 3 interesting players. I don't think any of them will play at a big club, but for this tournament they have a decent enough squad to compete with others.

Luqman Hakim scored a poker and he won the game by himself basically. He's outrageously quick and if your CB is slow, you better set up an offside trap because he'll beat you to it. He did it several times today.

The hosts' real test will be against Japan and Thailand who are in the same group. I'm excited to see what this Hakim can do against them.

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Blimey, Sikh Izhan just karate kicked a Tajikistani attacker and got sent off rightfully. I'll try to clip it later but jesus christ, what was he thinking.

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Incredible foul

 

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Malaysia won 6-2 against Tajikistan. Not really a test for them, but attacking wise I was impressed with them. They know exactly how they want to play. Their real test will be against Japan.

Speaking of, they play Thailand in 2 hours. Look forward to this.

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Looks even worse from a higher angle!

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Thailand take a shock lead against Japan in the first minute. 1-0 via Waragon Thongbai.

Shame that Kubo isn't in the Japan squad. He is a talent.

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3-2 to Japan as it stands. From what I've seen, Malaysia impressed me more than these 2 thus far.

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4-2 now, this has been full of bloopers. Japan is so imprecise, misplacing so many passes. Thailand has been better as a whole, but their poor clearances have gifted Japan 3 of the 4 goals. Its no excuse, but still. Thailand look a bit better to me in overall play.

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5 hours ago, Blue said:

Opening game in the AFC U16 tournament to qualify for Peru 2019, Malaysia are currently smashing Tajikistan. 6-1, and Malaysia has 3 interesting players. I don't think any of them will play at a big club, but for this tournament they have a decent enough squad to compete with others.

Luqman Hakim scored a poker and he won the game by himself basically. He's outrageously quick and if your CB is slow, you better set up an offside trap because he'll beat you to it. He did it several times today.

The hosts' real test will be against Japan and Thailand who are in the same group. I'm excited to see what this Hakim can do against them.

he seems like a fast talented forward. But just one look at teams like Iran physique vs the likes of malaysia tells you all you need to know. At this age, the main factor usually above skill level is physique, and in Asia Iranian players in this age group in particular are pretty unrivaled.

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57 minutes ago, Devon Von Devon said:

he seems like a fast talented forward. But just one look at teams like Iran physique vs the likes of malaysia tells you all you need to know. At this age, the main factor usually above skill level is physique, and in Asia Iranian players in this age group in particular are pretty unrivaled.

Absolutely mate, its why the African teams always win. They hit their growth spurt earlier I've read and that gives them a physical advantage. I don't buy into this age cheating thing, as in the last 2 World Cups, the African teams looked like a bunch of babies. No way they are overrage.

From what I saw of Japan and Thailand, Malaysia can beat either of them. The Thai's impressed me a bit more but clearly they were too naive.

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6 minutes ago, Blue said:

Absolutely mate, its why the African teams always win. They hit their growth spurt earlier I've read and that gives them a physical advantage. I don't buy into this age cheating thing, as in the last 2 World Cups, the African teams looked like a bunch of babies. No way they are overrage.

From what I saw of Japan and Thailand, Malaysia can beat either of them. The Thai's impressed me a bit more but clearly they were too naive.

You don't believe in something that has been well proven and documented in numerous cases and they even introduced MRI tests due to age fraud being so rampant in Africa?...