14 Jun

adidas Football has revealed that before the World Cup officially kicks off, it will be lighting up the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow with a selection of unique projections. On the evening of 13th June,10pm CET the iconic Moscow theatre will become a celebration of creativity and football across the game, life and world. The projection on the Bolshoi in Moscow will come to life the eve of the World Cup for one night only. It will feature a variety of different images that celebrate the best of the World Cup and help the people of Russia support their team. The projection...

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07 Jun

WORLD Cup is about to kick off in less than five days, the passion is building up to feverish levels, spreading like wildfire all over the place from Supermarkets to Shopping malls. Even the Bangsar fish monger Ah Chai was sporting a Germany jersey this morning. So I asked him siapa akan menang Ah Chai, he said “Germany la boss “ Closer to home, in Kuala Lumpur, another kind of fever is beginning to take shape, its origins traced from the corridors of power in the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM). It is elections fever. Tan Sri Annuar Musa, Datuk Redzuan Sheikh Ahmad,...

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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...

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13 Feb

Indonesia’s surprise bid to host the 2022 World Cup seems to be over after a government official told Reuters today that the priority should be to improve the standard of the national team. The ambitious bid by the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) relied on financial support from the government, who said they were more concerned with the team improving on their Fifa world ranking of 136. “PSSI has been asking for the government to give a government guarantee and declaration. The (guarantee) has not been granted at this stage,” Youth and Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng said via telephone. Fifa’s deadline for the...

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21 Jun

The government will study the contribution of the sports industry to the economy especially after hundreds of millions of ringgit had been spent on sportS development, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek said today. He said right now the industry was seen more as a field to generate good health and glory. "We don't know how much the industry has contributed to the country's gross domestic product (GDP) because we don't have the guidelines and data about that," he told reporters after attending the National Fitness Month 2009 celebration, here. He said it was high time for the sports industry to...

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08 Jun

LIFE on Planet Football must be going back to normal again as its 4.5 billion inhabitants, inarguably suffering from withdrawal symptoms, savour those magical moments of the greatest show on earth – The FIFA World Cup Germany 2006. The rest of the world would remember this World Cup more for that Zinedine Zidane-Marco Materazzi incident but my thoughts would be on those up-close-and-personal moments with players and coaches as a FIFA media officer. I don’t know what thoughts were running in Zidane's head as he trooped down the stairs (where I stood just two feet away) leading to the locker room. He was...

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