06 May

More than half of the 500,000 World Cup tickets offered for cash sales were still available, organizers said today, just over a month before the tournament starts. Initial brisk business when the fifth and final phase of sales opened in South Africa on April 15, sparking long queues, appears to have cooled. Greg Fredericks, head World Cup local organising committee CEO Danny Jordaan’s office, told Johannesburg city councillors less than 300,000 tickets remained for the June 11-July 11 tournament. “We are approaching 90 per cent ticket sales for the World Cup,” he said. Fifa spokeswoman Delia Fischer confirmed that 230,000 of the allotted 500,000...

06:24 / Local / Sports
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06 May

The needle on Malaysia’s sporting pressure chamber is creeping into the red after its badminton chief called on the nation’s squad to win all their group matches in the upcoming Thomas & Uber Cup. The most prestigious team event for men and women shuttlers begins on Sunday in Kuala Lumpur’s Putra Stadium where the world’s elite are primed to do battle. This dazzling line-up of talent has in no way diminished Nadzmi Salleh’s expectations, though, as the president of Malaysia’s badminton federation called on his team to rally support at home. “The more matches the team win, the better the vocal support,” he...

06:23 / Local / Sports
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06 May

The National Football Development Fund got off to a fine start when 16 corporate teams signed up for a futsal championship here starting May 8. Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek said the teams including Maxis, Astro, Maybank and Putrajaya Corporation had to contribute at least RM10,000 to the fund. "The championship is also held to introduce Putrajaya Futsal Complex before Rentap Futsal starts on May 14," he said after a training session with the select team of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak here Wednesday. Shabery was joined in training by his two deputies Datuk Razali Ibrahim and Datuk...

06:21 / Local / Sports
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04 May

TWO days ago a little bird told me about me about the situation in Slovakia, apprently Azraai Khor is no longer coaching the team, but a Slovakian has taken over. It is through the social network application such as facebook that we come to know problems that are faced by people. So when players and coaches express their feelings through facebook obviously the media fraternity comes to know Harimau Muda is not well. Read the most prominent blogger and Astro Arena resident panelist rizal hashim discovery here. Unfortunately the goal keeper coach Mohana has returned and that is due to the misunderstanding between him...

06:20 / Local / Sports
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03 May

MANCHESTER UNITED PREMIER CUP (JOHOR) CHAMPIONS BANDAR PENAWAR SPORTS SCHOOL B TEAM. Semi-Finals Durah FC vs SMK Tasek Utara B (Penalty 5-4) Sekolah Sukan Bandar Penawar B vs SMK Tanjung Putri 3 - 1 3rd / 4th Placing SMK Tasek Utara B vs SMK Tanjung Putri 2 - 0 Finals Sekolah Sukan Bandar Penawar B vs Durah FC 1 - 1 (Penalty 6-5) Best Goalkeeper Muhammad Amirullah b. Sapia Afandi (Durah FC) Top scorer Mohd Izzudin Irfan (Durah FC) - 8 Goals Man of the match Ahmad Azinuddin (Durah FC)á Fairplay team SMK Tasek Utara First Runner-up Durah FC Champions Sekolah Sukan Bandar Penawar B...

06:17 / Local / Sports
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29 Apr

Four former footballers yesterday threw their support behind a proposal to legalise sports betting ahead of the World Cup finals in South Africa. They said legalising sports wagers would reduce illegal betting and match-fixing, but some said it could encourage people to go into debt. Last month, the New Straits Times said sports betting may be legalised in time for the World Cup, which is being held from June 11 t o July 11. Berjaya Group was seeking government approval to operate sports betting activities. Datuk Soh Chin Aun, 60, a captain of the national team in the 1980s, said people would probably resort...

06:04 / Local / Sports
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28 Apr

Cyclist Mohd Azizulhasni Awang and squash queen Datuk Nicol Ann David were named the 2009 National Sportsman and Sportswoman respectively. Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin presented the main awards and a RM10,000 incentive each to the two winners at the 2009 National Sports Awards here Tuesday night.Nicol, who won the award for the seventh time, was not present as she is still training in Amsterdam. The award is the first for Azizulhasni, 22, the track cyclist based in Melbourne, Australia, who ranked first in last season's World Cup Series and also ranked first in the Keirin until March last year.The...

06:01 / Local / Sports
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20 Apr

MSSK KEDAH and SMK Pulau Nyior were the first two teams to clinch a berth in the NIKE-FAM-Ministry of Education Manchester United Premier Cup (MUPC) National Finals in Kuala Lumpur on May 15.In the first leg competition in Penang last Sunday, MSSK Kedah defeated SMK Pulau Nyior 4-3 on penalty kicks after a goalless game."> The MUPC Cup inaugurated in 1993, has a total of 128 teams taking part this year.The top two teams from the four legs qualify for the final round.The winner of the National final will represent Malaysia in the regional finals to be held in Sri Racha...

05:54 / Local / Sports
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12 Apr

A cross-causeway tournament involving S-League clubs and Malaysian sides, rekindling some of the old Malaysia Cup fever, will go ahead this June, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) confirmed yesterday. "The FAS and Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) have met and, in my view, it appears to be a meeting of two like minds," FAS president Zainudin Nordin, who is also the mayor of central district Singapore, told MediaCorp. "We will do it for the first time this year, and well see what the constraints are for the subsequent years. But one thing is clear: This is not a one-off event. We...

05:47 / Local / Sports
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17 Mar

FAM PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ISSUE ON HARIMAU MUDA IN SLOVAKIA INTRODUCTION • IN THE WAKE OF SEVERE CRITICISM AIMED AT THE FA OF MALAYSIAPERTAINING TO THE SLOVAKIAN STINT FOR THE HARIMAU MUDA A TEAM, THE SECRETARIAT IS COMPELLED TO CLARIFY A FEW ISSUES RAISED BY THE MEDIA. • THOUGH THE SECRETARIAT WISHE S TO REFRAIN FROM QUESTIONING THE MOTIVES OF CERTAIN QUARTERS IN HIGHLIGHTING THE ISSUE, THERE IS A NEED TO CLEAR THE AIR ARISING FROM ONE MEDIA REPORT THAT WAS PUBLISHED ABOUT A WEEK AGO, CASTING ASPERSIONS OVER THE POSITION OF THE HARIMAU MUDA TEAM IN SLOVAKIA. • IT NEEDS TO BE REITERATED THE...

05:08 / Local / Sports
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