World Cup 2018

[JoesephToh]

Originally Posted by draven78eric

Its not upsets, alot of fixed match or probably all matches... all teams dont play consistency. can score dont score. Missed like school boys would missed.
All the misses you see in World cup, no way you will see in the League of any country...

I bet the Russian mafia control all the betting pundits in Russia . Bet many people lose their money this time around . Please don't listen to sionglim his knowledge take from spools . Buay zhun . He himself lose money .

[JoesephToh]

Originally Posted by 83ig

its always nice to c a new team in the final rather than the regular one
Best wish to croatia but think france wil lift the cup

As a england supporter , i hope they wil at least win the 3rd place
But belgium seem to b the better team

the last 2 match is my heart vs my brain

This time around a lot of darkhorse and underdogs . A lot of the favourites kenna knocked out including Brazil .

[JoesephToh]

Originally Posted by sionglim

Third placing but eng odd still higher.
This saturday.


Final not sure,fr or croatia.
Go for a Ft Draw, odd ard $3

So now you bookie is it ?

[Flatbread]

Originally Posted by JoesephToh

So now you bookie is it ?

You small boy cannot be bookie so jealous lah ?

[sionglim]

Originally Posted by egresnow

bye bye england.

i wished you exited earlier though.

Going for third placing.
But belgium is favourite.
Tonite lawan
Okto no live broadcast.
Final tomolo then got live

[Tai_zi21]

Originally Posted by sionglim

Going for third placing.
But belgium is favourite.
Tonite lawan
Okto no live broadcast.
Final tomolo then got live

Buy Belgium to win 1-0 and 2-1 exact score...

Think as usual many ppl taking England...

Huat aaahhh to all

[sionglim]

I buy draw - belgium. $5.20
And belgium belgium. $3.40
Buy second half more goals...buy to cover.

Base on spool odd

[Noun]

Originally Posted by Tai_zi21

Buy Belgium to win 1-0 and 2-1 exact score...

Think as usual many ppl taking England...

Huat aaahhh to all

I also buy Belgium.

[kuasimi]

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singaporea...015431648.html


Singaporean teen Ben Davis signs professional contract with Fulham



Yahoo News Singapore14 July 2018




Seventeen-year-old Singaporean Ben Davis has signed a professional contract with newly-promoted English Premier League club Fulham.

In an announcement on its website on Friday, Fulham FC said that Davis – along with Luca Ashby-Hammond, Sonny Hilton, Jaydn Mundle-Smith and Elias Frei – was among five scholars that signed their first pro contracts with the club.

The first Singaporean to join the club’s academy, Fulham said that last season the midfielder accrued a pass accuracy of over 90 per cent when playing for Colin Omogbehin’s Under-18s side.

They said he was also called up to the Singapore senior national team this year but has yet to make an appearance.

In July last year, Davis had signed with Fulham on a two-year scholarship.

“I will enjoy the achievement and success so far, but now it gives me the motivation, drive and desire to push on to achieve the ultimate goal of playing in the Fulham first team in the Premier League,” Davis was quoted as saying in a Channel NewsAsia report.

His goals now reportedly are to establish himself as a regular for the U-18 and U-23 team.

[kuasimi]

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...8158?cid=FBcna


Coaches question Robbie Servais' commitment, FAS' decision-making after Under-19s debacle


By Nigel Chin
13 Jul 2018 09:03PM (Updated: 13 Jul 2018 09:25PM)





SINGAPORE: Several coaches have questioned Singapore Under-19s head coach Robbie Servais' commitment, after it emerged that he had left the team as they were preparing for the ASEAN Football Federation U-19 championship.

The Dutchman had taken up an opportunity to work for Australia's national team in the World Cup under an arrangement that was agreed between the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) technical director Michel Sablon and his Australian counterpart, Eric Adams.

Servais only returned to the Cubs a day before they were due to fly off to Indonesia for the tournament. The Singapore U-19s suffered heavy losses to Thailand, Indonesia and Laos, earning just one point in five matches.

The 5-0 thrashing to Laos was what drew attention to the issue, with former Singapore international R Sasikumar telling Channel NewsAsia earlier this week that it was an "embarrassment" and a "major issue".

FAS had said in a press release before the tournament that the team were missing some of their better players, but still had "adequate experience". On Friday, Fox Sports Asia reported that the Laos team had been put together just five weeks before the start of the tournament.

Queries sent by Channel NewsAsia to FAS at the start of the week have gone unanswered so far.


Steve Darby, who has had stints with Singapore Premier League club Home United and the Laos national team, said he was surprised" that Servais was allowed to leave.

"If you are contracted to have a major role in a team, such as head coach, the professional thing to do is to complete the task or resign and undertake the other task," the 63-year-old told Channel NewsAsia.

"If there was plenty of time before the AFF tournament then I can see the benefits to the individual coach and possible benefits to FAS if he completed a report and shared it with the local coaches.

"However, the timing appears to be the key issue here ... I am surprised that permission was given as it must have an effect on the U-19 team. If it didn’t then he wasn’t being effective as a coach.

"You can’t have it both ways accept praise for success and avoid blame for defeat."

Aide Iskandar, who was previously in the Singapore national setup as head coach of the Young Lions and Singapore U-23 team, said he was appalled by it.

In a Facebook post on Thursday, Aide wrote that "a dignified coach will stick with his team whether the team wins, lose or draw through any competition and his tenure as a coach".

"When you make a commitment to develop young players, please do it with your fullest commitment and integrity! Don't just do it for your own personal development to get somewhere!

"I may not be the best person to comment but at least I have the integrity to do my best for the youths during my time as a youth coach," Aide added.

SERVAIS SHOULDN'T BE BLAMED FOR RESULTS

But one coach said he was puzzled by the negative reaction towards the whole development and said he was disappointed by it.

Alex Weaver, who led Warriors FC to the S.League title in 2015 and is now with Switzerland's FC Lausanne-Sport, said it was imperative to look at the big picture.

"It's about asking the question, 'What is best for Singapore football medium-long term? Is it an under-19 tournament now or what Robbie can give to these players and coaches for the rest of their careers as a result of what he gains from working at a World Cup?," asked Englishman Weaver.

He's still a Singapore coach working for the FAS to improve the development for the young players, he's going to come back and share his experience (with the rest)."

"It's the World Cup, where the best players are competing. he is able to bring all that back and share that knowledge and experience which will benefit them for the rest of the career. But I think people other than FAS and Sablon are looking as though it will only benefit Robbie Servais, as if it's some vacation he's taking."

Weaver added that the poor results in the tournament should not be pinned on Servais solely.

"It's not because Robbie went to work with Australia in the World Cup. It's because of what happened seven, eight years ago - youth development is a whole process that takes a lot of time," Weaver explained.

"He's not a club coach where he gets to spend every day with the players ... the quality he gets to work now is the result of what the previously technical director and youth coaches were doing years ago. An U-19 coach can only influence so much within a 12-month period."

The questions that should be asked then, according to Weaver, is why did FAS fail to publicise about having a coach who was going to work at the World Cup.

"Knowing the bad reputation it has at the moment, which for me is unfortunate, I would have been all over this," Weaver offered.

"Maybe if they had done that, it might have influenced people's opinions. The fact that they didn't say anything maybe has played a part ... they should be proud of him."

That thought was echoed by Darby as well.

"I agree development is long term. But it is measured by results of teams or individual players progressing to higher levels - neither seems to be happening at the moment in Singapore."

"I would be interested to see or hear the rationale behind releasing the coach with the AFF tournament so close," said Darby.

Source: CNA/ng

[kuasimi]

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/201...ll-over-again/


FAS needs to admit that it has failed, and that it needs to start from scratch all over again

Published on 2018-07-13 by The Online Citizen






by Jose Raymond

The beatings received by Singapore's Under-19 side at the recent ASEAN Football Federation U19 tournament in Indonesia could not have come at a worse time for Singapore football.

When Singaporeans are enjoying free viewings of World Cup matches at community clubs while supporting their adopted nations of Brazil, England and Argentina, news that the Young Lions were getting battered at an U19 youth tournament left many shaking their heads in disbelief.

That the U19 Singapore national coach Robbie Servais was allowed the help Australia at the World Cup in Russia despite having a major assignment with his young Singaporean charges is a further indication of how poor decision making is affecting Singapore football.

The Lions are now ranked 169th (it was 172 a month ago) in the world, and Singapore will also not be represented at the Asian Games in Jakarta for the first time since 2006.

The failure of the Singapore football dream, and the disillusionment of the public towards the sport should not be taken lightly.

The turnaround will not be easy, and the journey ahead for the Football Association of Singapore will be arduous.

Perhaps the FAS could use a “Triple A" strategy to help itself move forward.

Admit. Accept. Ask.

Admit that it has failed, and that it needs to start from scratch all over again. Admit that all isn't well with football and stop making public relations statements which indicate that there is progress because the fact is there isn't, and football has hit rock bottom.

Accept that we are lagging behind in many areas, including in facilities, finance and even interest in the local leagues. Accept that new models of development of the sport need to be considered, and that FAS alone does not have all the answers to the current malaise.

Ask for the public to be patient and be honest with them. Manage the expectations of the Singapore football fan and help them understand that this is going to be a long bumpy ride to recovery. Win them over through brutal honesty, and not sugar-coated five-year strategic plans which have gone absolutely nowhere.

While we will and should always wear our national jerseys and shout ourselves hoarse for our national teams, the FAS needs to take some hard decisions and lead the sport back from the ashes.

The road to recovery has to first start from within.

This was first published on Mr Jose Raymond's Facebook page and reproduced with permission


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Controversies


Political interference

The FAS council was first appointed by the government since 1968,[2] and has been controlled continually by government appointees for more than three decades from the 1980s to 2015.[3] From 2004 to 2015, the FAS president had been an elected member of the ruling People's Action Party, and was appointed by the Minister for Sports.[4]

In 2015, global football governing body FIFA took issue with the politically-appointed leaders of the organisation.[5] It requested an end to political interference in the appointment of the national body's council members and non-compliance would cause a suspension in Singapore's FIFA membership, making the country ineligible to take part in international competitions.[6]


FAS has since changed its constitution in 2016,[4][7] and held general elections for its council members in 2017. FAS president and then PAP member of parliament Zainudin Nordin declared the association had "not done anything wrong". "We have always been in consultation with FIFA over the last 30 years. They are aware of the uniqueness of our situation, and have always given us special dispensation."[8]

Outrage over lack of investment in grassroots football


During the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on September 2016, it was revealed that organising expenses on grassroots competitions like the National Football League (NFL), Island Wide League (IWL) and FA Cup amounted to about $70,000 during the previous financial year from April 2015 to March 2016.

This figure which represented a mere 0.2 per cent of the FAS' total annual budget of S$35.8 million sparked outrage within the local football community with many perceiving it as a clear indication of FAS's lack of regard for grassroots football.[9] In a press conference on 13 October 2016, FAS vice-president Bernard Tan clarified that the amount did not include prize money and participation fees contributed by the teams counted under S. League account.[10]

Probe into alleged misuse of funds

In April 2017, Bill Ng, owner of 2 Singapore football clubs, Hougang United and Tiong Bahru Football Club (TBFC), claimed that he had donated S$850,000 to the FAS with the intention of helping Singapore football, but that the money had gone to the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) instead.[11]

The allegations came in the prelude to the first open election of the FAS council.[12] FAS secretary Winston Lee responded that Ng was aware of where the funds were used, that $200,000 went to the LionsXII, while $500,000 was used to support the AFF's Football Management System.[13][14] Lee said that it was former FAS president and Member of Parliament Zainudin Nordin who asked Ng to donate to the AFF, while Ng disputed the claim.[15][16] FAS responded with a statement that Ng's allegations of financial impropriety within FAS to damage the credibility of the association was regretable, and it was unusual that Ng had chosen to hide Zainudin’s role in the transaction.[17]

On 20 April 2017, the police raided the Football Association of Singapore over reports of financial misuse of funds filed by the Sports Ministry. Zainudin Nordin, Winston Lee, Bill Ng and his wife Bonnie Wong, were arrested and subsequently released. The four assisted with the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) with the probe into the alleged misuse of funds and obstruction of club audits of TBFC.[18][19][20]

[sionglim]

Originally Posted by sionglim

I buy draw - belgium. $5.20
And belgium belgium. $3.40
Buy second half more goals...buy to cover.

Base on spool odd

Total ball, 2.5
Buy under to cover

[sionglim]

The tbfc premise ,at ppc, under reno, not sure tbfc can come back or not,
Or other club take over the plc.

[newton]

Goal!! 1st blood to Belgium.

[newton]

Harry kane so far cannot score from open play in the knock-out stage.
Halftime Belgium 1 Ingerland 0.