22 May

The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) will adopt an open door concept in hiring a new project manager. The BAM are currently looking for an interested and qualified person to fill the “hot seat” to monitor the training and coaching set-up. The person will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of all the elite and back-up training programmes and to keep the coaches on their toes. He will be the link between the people on the ground, the coaches and players, and the BAM coaching and training committee, headed by Datuk Nadzmi Mohd Salleh. It will be first time in many years that...

03:35 / Local / Sports
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21 May

The Olympic Council of Malaysia's (OCM) Annual General Assembly on May 30 is expected to see a fiery battle for the posts of president and deputy president. When nominations closed at 5pm today, the OCM received challengers for the president and deputy president's posts, currently held by Tunku Tan Sri Imran Tuanku Ja'afar and Datuk M Jegathesan respectively, but their names were not announced. However, the post of Honorary secretary held by Datuk Sieh Kok Chi since 1992, would not be contested together with posts of Honorary treasurer, assistant Honorary treasurer and the women's vice president's posts. Apart from the two top posts,...

12:13 / Local / Sports
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21 May

ERIC DUDLEY SAMUEL CELEBRATES HIS 47TH BIRTHDAY TODAY. I HAVE KNOWN HIM FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS AND TRULY HE IS ONE OF THOSE THAT IS LIKED AND LOVED BY MANY FRIENDS IN THE MEDIA ERIC WISHING YOU A BLESSED BIRTHDAY AND MAY THE GOOD LORD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU IN GOOD HEALTH ...

03:04 / Local
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09 May

FIFA President Joseph S Blatter believes that the Asian Football Federation (AFC) should amend its statutes to ensure the AFC President is automatically made FIFA Vice President. “What we have to do is to make sure that all presidents of confederations are members of the FIFA Executive Committee in the position of vice president,” Blatter told journalists after the 23rd AFC Congress. Currently, AFC's representative as FIFA Vice President is Korea Republic's Chung Mong-joon. Also sitting on the FIFA executive from Asia is AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam, who was re-elected to his seat on Friday, Thailand's Worawi Makudi and Japan's Junji Ogura. AFC...

12:12 / International / Sports
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09 May

By the very closest of margins, after one of the most bitter Asian football elections, Mohamed bin Hammam won by a 23-21 voting to be the FIFA Executive Committee member (West Asia). The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president beat Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa in a poll of the 46-member confederation at the AFC Congress at the Mandarin Oriental in Kuala Lumpur. There were two spoilt votes. “It’s a very close call in a very democratic election,” said Sheikh Salman, the Bahrain Football Association president, who campaigned on the refreshing platform of “Asia for Change”. “I accept the decision. I believe it is...

12:07 / International / Sports
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08 May

Asia's football chiefs today called off a vote on whether to shift the Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) headquarters away from Kuala Lumpur. The 46 members of the AFC had been due to vote later today on whether or not to accept bids from other nations to host the regional body. At the beginning of the annual congress, however, AFC president Mohamed Bin Hammam asked members to scratch that issue from the day's agenda. "Yesterday I met with the Prime Minister of Malaysia (Datuk Seri Najib Razak) who has shown great sympathy and concern over keeping our headquarters in Malaysia," the Qatari told the...

12:05 / International / Sports
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07 May

Kuwait FA has been barred from voting by the AFC Executive Committee which met this morning. The AFC Congress is schedule for tomorrow (May 8th, 2009) to elect Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa or Mohamed bin Hammam for the FIFA vice president’s seat (West Asia). It is learnt that FIFA will intervene in the matter and an make an official announcement....

12:04 / International / Sports
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06 May

The unintentional “desert” remark of Dato’ Peter Velappan on Tuesday became a tongue-in-cheek talking point at Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah’s press conference today. Velappan, the former general secretary of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), had unreservedly apologised after making the remark in relation to AFC president Mohamed bin Hammam. But Sheikh Ahmad, the Kuwait Football Association president, said he was personally “proud to be a desert man” in casting his vote at Friday’s AFC Congress election in a “contest of two desert people” for the post of FIFA Executive Member (West Asia). “I’m proud to be a desert man and I’ll be voting...

12:02 / International / Sports
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06 May

Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has called for an united show of Asian solidarity as a partition of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) seems imminent in the run-up to Friday’s AFC Congress in Kuala Lumpur. “The division of the Asian football family saddens me very much. The situation is very serious and there will be global sporting repercussions to the present disunited stand in Asia,” said the president of the Kuwait Football Association. Up for grabs on Friday: The post of FIFA Executive Committee (West Asia) with two Arab candidates, Mohamed Bin Hammam of Qatar and Bahraini Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa, once...

10:19 / International / Sports
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