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The Japanese were booed off the pitch after slumping to a 3-0 defeat to Serbia during their World Cup warm up match, played in Osaka, Japan. Serbia’s Dragan Mrdja scored two goals. The Serbs looked more up for the game as compared to their Japanese counterparts. Japan captain Yuji Nakazawa told Reuters:
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Japan Booed
April 10th, 2010 
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No Comments »Asian Teams Prepare for the World Cup
December 25th, 2009 admin The Japanese national team will begin preparations for their 2010 World Cup with a friendly against Venezuela on February 2. Venezuela haven’t qualified for the Cup, but Japan manager Takeshi Okada feels it would be a good test as “teams from South America always approach matches wanting to win”. and also added that the game [...]
Posted in Asian Football, World Cup 2010 Tags: Football, Football News, Football Update, Football Updates, Latest News, World Cup 2010 No Comments »Hosts Bow Out Of SAFF 2009
December 11th, 2009 admin India U-23 have managed to book a place in the SAFF finals which is to be held on Sunday, versus Maldives. The young Indian squad beat Bangladesh 1-0 on Friday, thanks to skipper Sushil Kumar Singh’s goal, scored in the 63rd minute. India started the game well and created a lot of chances, the earliest [...]
Posted in Asian Football, Indian Football Tags: Football, Football News, Football Update, Football Updates, Indian Football, Latest News No Comments »India Into the Semi-Finals – SAFF 2009
December 8th, 2009 admin The Indian U-23 team have qualify into the semi-finals of the SAFF Champions Cup,being played in Bangladesh. India managed to win over an in-form Nepali team. The Indian team just needed to win another match to qualify to the last four. Whereas Nepal needed to win to stay alive in the tournament. The Indian team [...]
Posted in Asian Football, Indian Football Tags: Football, Football News, Football Update, Football Updates, Latest News No Comments »SAFF Championship 2009
December 5th, 2009 admin India 1-0 Afghanistan India U-23 took on Afghanistan in the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship at the BangaBandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh. India have won the tournament 4 times already and are favourites this time round as well, but are fielding their U-23 squad this year. India hadn’t created as many chances as Afghanistan [...]
Posted in Asian Football, Indian Football Tags: Football, Football News, Football Update, Football Updates, Indian Football, Latest News No Comments »AFC Champions, 2009
November 7th, 2009 admin Pohang Steelers have won the AFC Champions League, defeating Al Ittihad 2-1 in the finals held in the National Stadium in Tokyo. Al Ittihad had a string of chances in the first half but didn’t manage to take the lead. The Steelers weren’t able to match Al Ittihad in the first 45. However, after the [...]
I-League Matches
October 23rd, 2009 admin Dempo 2-2 Mahindra United Climax Lawrence saved Dempo from a defeat by scoring in stoppage time. A 10-men Mahindra United looked set to get all three points, until the final “Climax”. Mahindra were brought down to 10 when defender D Ravanan for elbowing a Dempo player, just 33 minutes into the match. Although Dempo took [...]
Posted in Asian Football, Indian Football Tags: Football News, Football Update, Football Updates, I League, Indian Football No Comments »Indian Player of the Year
October 21st, 2009 admin Subroto Paul is named the ‘Player of the Year’ by the AIFF. The Indian goal keeper has had a spectacular season, he also helped India retain the Nehru Cup by saving 3 penalties. Derrick Pereira, his Pune FC coach was delighted by the news and has tipped him to be the next captain of the [...]
Shilpa Shetty Now in Football?
October 19th, 2009 admin Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty along with her boyfriend Raj Kundra entered the All India Football Federation (AIFF), showing an interest in Indian football. The duo who own the IPL team, Rajasthan Royals, spent some time at the AIFF headquarters with general secretary Alberto Colaco. He was kept busy answering questions. Colaco said- “It was a [...]
Posted in Asian Football, Indian Football Tags: Football, Football News, Football Update, Football Updates No Comments »AFC U-16 qualifiers
October 13th, 2009 admin India recorded another loss in the AFC under-16 qualifiers, this time it was to hosts UAE. The Indians started off well, attacking from the beginning and almost scored in the third minute. Followed by another miss two minutes later when Shashank’s powerful shot went sailing over the bar. However, they finally took the lead in [...]
