14 May

Fifa executive committee member Worawi Makudi, who has been implicated in a World Cup bribery scandal, is no longer head of the Football Association of Thailand (FAT) according to a government sporting body. The Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) said that the postponement of FAT elections last week was illegal, and as no election had been held within the required time limit after Worawi's presidency expired at the end of 2010, his position was void. Worawi was to have been challenged for the presidency at FAT elections last Friday but the poll was postponed when the executive board said some of the clubs...

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14 Apr

Football Association of Thailand president Worawi Makudi, a member of the powerful FIFA executive committee, is confident that the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) would be able to host a World Cup finals. The idea of a joint bid by the 10-member ASEAN to host the 2030 World Cup finals came alive at a foreign ministers' summit in Lombok, Indonesia in January. Malaysia was tasked to come up with a proposal and to submit a status report at the ASEAN Summit in Indonesia next month. On Sunday, the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) backed the idea of a joint bid. Speaking to MediaCorp...

07:51 / International / Press Release / Sports
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12 Apr

Newly elected Asean Football Federation (AFF) president Sultan Ahmad Shah is expected to propose the building of the AFF headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. The Sultan who is also the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) president said he would put forward the proposal to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. "I will write to the Prime Minister for a land allocation to build the AFF headquarters but will seek the approval of the AFF council before writing the letter to the Prime Minister. "To me, Najib is a leader who understands and supports the importance of sports," he said after opening the fourth...

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10 Apr

His Royal Highness Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah is the new president of the Asean Football Federation (AFF) after he won the post uncontested during the regional body’s 18th Congress in Bangkok, Sunday. The other nominee for the post, FA of Thailand President, Dato’ Worawi Makudi, who is also a FIFA Exco member, decided to withdraw from contesting the top post. HRH Sultan Ahmad, a former AFC President and current President of theFA of Malaysia, replaces long-serving Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Tengku AhmadRithauddeen Al-Haj Tengku Ismail, who decided not to seek re-election this year. Tengku Ahmad has been AFF President since 1996 (when the...

07:58 / Local / Press Release / Sports
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08 Apr

The Reds are coming. English football giants Liverpool FC will play in Malaysia this summer. Title sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank, the match will be a piece of football history as this is the first time Liverpool FC will be stepping on Malaysian soil and it has created a lot of excitement. The Reds have a massive base of football fans in the country. Organized by the Football Association of Malaysia, the event is promoted by ProEvents International Sdn Bhd, the leading football marketing and management consultancy in Asia, who is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Malaysia this year. “Even if you are...

08:01 / International / Press Release / Sports
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05 Apr

My Dear ASEAN Brothers, That’s what we are, that’s what we have been, that’s what we should be, and always remain being. I come before you as a protagonist of 1ASEAN, appealing to each one of you my brothers in football, to reignite the flame of ASEAN solidarity and lift this spirit above our own frailties and agendas, and let it soar to heights we have yet to scale To be a force in the world, it’s imperative that we have to first be a force within our own fraternity. We cannot, my dear brothers, confront and face our challenges with huge holes...

08:08 / International / Press Release / Sports
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05 Apr

CARDIFF: FA of Malaysia deputy president Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah hopes that more football academies will be set up to prepare a platform for youth who want to play football. Tengku Abdullah expressed his hopes for grassroots football during his visit to the Cardiff City Football Training Academy, where he watched the Under-18 play at the Leckwith Stadium. He later watched Malaysian-owned Cardiff City beat Derby County 4-1 in a Championship (Division One) match at Cardiff stadium on Saturday.The visit to Cardiff, said Tengku Abdullah, was also to step up the cooperation in terms of preparation to train Malaysian Under-16, Under-18...

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05 Apr

Following the latest events linked to the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI), the FIFA Emergency Committee decided on 1 April 2011 that, in accordance with article 7 paragraph 2 of the FIFA Statutes, a Normalisation Committee will take over from the current PSSI executive committee. The FIFA Emergency Committee estimated that the current PSSI leadership was not in control of football in Indonesia as proven by the failure to gain control of the run-away league (Liga Premiere, LPI) set up without the involvement of PSSI or by the fact it could not organise a congress whose sole goals were to adopt an electoral code and...

08:03 / International / Press Release / Sports
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01 Apr

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has played polo around the world but comes this June, Malaysia wants to do exceptionally well in the all-important FIP Polo World Cup Zone D Qualifier from June 11-26. It is a tournament that the Malaysians will be rooting for the national polo team to make the top three which will not only give the sport a big boost in the country but also take it to a new level. At stake is a historic place in the FIP Polo World Cup which will be played in San Luis, Argentina from October 11-25. To earn the passport to Argentina, Malaysia...

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07 Mar

A bunch of “very talented” individual polo players carry Malaysia’s hopes and aspirations for a historic place in the FIP Polo World Cup Finals scheduled to be held in San Luis, Argentina in October. Malaysia, despite being one of Asia’s most established polo nations, has never made it to the FIP World Cup Finals. And as recently as two months ago the national polo team assembled to carry the country’s challenge looked “lost and chaotic”. But all that has changed and today Malaysia look positive for a top three finish in the eight-team FIP Polo World Cup Zone D qualifier that will...

08:19 / Local / Press Release / Sports
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