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Post by cjeagle on Apr 5, 2013 22:10:29 GMT 8
Anyways here is the latest news on their joining the AFF: The Socceroos look to be officially inducted into AFF after having received unanimous support from member associations, although participation in 2014 Suzuki Cup seems unlikely EXCLUSIVE By Bhas Kunju & Paddy Higgs With the recent announcement of the Asean Super League set for 2015 and an expanded format for the 2014 AFF Suzuki Cup which will be co-hosted by Singapore and Vietnam, fan anticipation and excitement over the news has been extraordinary. Asean Football Federation (AFF) confirmed the scrapping of the qualifying process for the AFF Suzuki Cup tournament to allow all 11 member nations to participate in the main tournament. But some media reports claimed that the expansion meant Australia could make a surprise entry in the competition next year. Australia have served as an invitited member with the AFF since 2006 with participation and groupings limited to age-group competitions only, while the senior team takes part in the East Asia zone for regional competitions. However, a Football Federation Australia (FFA) spokesperson speaking exclusively to Goal confirmed that the Socceroos were seeking a full membership in AFF and were only awaiting the formalities for confirmation. "Asean members have unanimously supported our entry into the AFF," said the representative. "But it still has to be finalised at the meeting of the extraordinary congress in August." The membership will be for full entry to the federation and Australian teams will initially start participation at the age-group level and in futsal competitions, with plans for the senior team to be included in AFF competitions in the near future. The spokesperson also stated that it was 'very unlikely' that the new guidelines will be implemented in time for the Socceroos to be included for the 2014 AFF Suzuki Cup. www.goal.com/en-sg/news/3952/asia/2013/04/05/3880352/australia-to-seek-official-aff-entry-for-all-football
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Post by dianneontheflank on Apr 6, 2013 11:22:15 GMT 8
^ haha, now don't hate on the pensioners mate...Cahill, Thompson, Bresciano = legends. add Josh Kennedy and Brett Emerton into the line-up and we would have demolished Oman. oh and PNG may be Oceania but so is Australia am i right? don't see why there's a difference. First off, welcome to the forums girl! :> xx hope you'll like it here.
second, I agree that Cahill, Emerton, Holman and Kennedy should form the core of the team but we need to look to the future. Tommy Oar and Robbie Kruse are the future, add to that the solid defense of Zullo, McGowan and Williams and we're sussed.
But forget Schwarzer, we need to give Ryan more game time.
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Post by Caz on Apr 6, 2013 16:39:07 GMT 8
Going back to the confirmed news, I'm super excited to see Timor Leste go up against the higher ranked teams of SEA. This next edition of the Suzuki Cup will be one of the best now that the qualifiers are gone. But once again we're left in the wind as we wait for Brunei's fate. Will they be suspended or won't they?
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Post by dianneontheflank on Apr 6, 2013 16:55:42 GMT 8
If they do, it will be the 2nd time they are suspended. The first being in 2009-10.
Seems to me their football federation is a tad incompetent and does not have a sense of direction. and we think our PFF was bad
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Post by Caz on Apr 6, 2013 17:58:35 GMT 8
I think the first time was beyond their federation's capabilities to avoid. Not so sure about this second time.
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Post by butchok on Apr 7, 2013 7:34:04 GMT 8
Anyways here is the latest news on their joining the AFF: The Socceroos look to be officially inducted into AFF after having received unanimous support from member associations, although participation in 2014 Suzuki Cup seems unlikely EXCLUSIVE By Bhas Kunju & Paddy Higgs With the recent announcement of the Asean Super League set for 2015 and an expanded format for the 2014 AFF Suzuki Cup which will be co-hosted by Singapore and Vietnam, fan anticipation and excitement over the news has been extraordinary. Asean Football Federation (AFF) confirmed the scrapping of the qualifying process for the AFF Suzuki Cup tournament to allow all 11 member nations to participate in the main tournament. But some media reports claimed that the expansion meant Australia could make a surprise entry in the competition next year. Australia have served as an invitited member with the AFF since 2006 with participation and groupings limited to age-group competitions only, while the senior team takes part in the East Asia zone for regional competitions. However, a Football Federation Australia (FFA) spokesperson speaking exclusively to Goal confirmed that the Socceroos were seeking a full membership in AFF and were only awaiting the formalities for confirmation. "Asean members have unanimously supported our entry into the AFF," said the representative. "But it still has to be finalised at the meeting of the extraordinary congress in August." The membership will be for full entry to the federation and Australian teams will initially start participation at the age-group level and in futsal competitions, with plans for the senior team to be included in AFF competitions in the near future. The spokesperson also stated that it was 'very unlikely' that the new guidelines will be implemented in time for the Socceroos to be included for the 2014 AFF Suzuki Cup. www.goal.com/en-sg/news/3952/asia/2013/04/05/3880352/australia-to-seek-official-aff-entry-for-all-footballSocceeroos' entry to ASEAN football will bring more positives than negatives. Foremost, it will expand the coverage of the competition thereby increasing their media reach to worldwide audience. Second, it will improve the competitiveness of ASEAN countries which are all below Australia in FIFA rankings. Third, it will bring more money in the table by catching attention to prospective sponsors, remember Australia is a great sporting nation and most of their citizens are active into some sports. So, its a huge market down there.
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Post by butchok on Apr 7, 2013 7:45:21 GMT 8
If ever Socceeroos will compete in Suzuki Cup I reckoned they will just call up players based locally in their country those who plays in A-Leaague. I don't think they will wait and exert resources to utilize their Euro-based players when they have local players who are equally capable to bring the Cup. Even with a local based crew, they are still strong for ASEAN countries to compete. But I believe, ASEAN countries playing against them regularly will eventually catch up.
How about Iain Ramsay? If these news of Socceeroos entry to ASEAN football will be confirmed, Philippines may just as well forget Ramsay. . . The likelihood that he will be called by Australia will increase manyfold in the event of AUssies' ASEAN entry.
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Post by stellarboy on Apr 7, 2013 9:18:36 GMT 8
Socceeroos' entry to ASEAN football will bring more positives than negatives. Foremost, it will expand the coverage of the competition thereby increasing their media reach to worldwide audience. Second, it will improve the competitiveness of ASEAN countries which are all below Australia in FIFA rankings. Third, it will bring more money in the table by catching attention to prospective sponsors, remember Australia is a great sporting nation and most of their citizens are active into some sports. So, its a huge market down there. If ever Socceeroos will compete in Suzuki Cup I reckoned they will just call up players based locally in their country those who plays in A-Leaague. I don't think they will wait and exert resources to utilize their Euro-based players when they have local players who are equally capable to bring the Cup. Even with a local based crew, they are still strong for ASEAN countries to compete. But I believe, ASEAN countries playing against them regularly will eventually catch up. I still think otherwise, butchok, as having the 'Roos, at least at the senior level would be counter-productive for them, after having left the Oceania Football Confederation a few years ago as they've thought they got "bored" beating small island nations in the OFC by double-digit margins. Plus it will be massively intimidating for most of the ASEAN players and fans to have a team that had its highest FIFA ranking at #14. I'm quite worried for the lower-ranked half of the ASEAN, i.e. Laos, Cambodia, Brunei and Timor-Leste, as I do think they can easily get "massacred," except that, on paper, Timor being physically at par with the Aussies in terms of fitness, may find themselves to a draw. Besides, during the WCQ two years ago, Thailand narrowly lost 1-0 twice to the 'Roos. So I do think the upper-half of the ASEAN should be able to catch up - Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and especially the Philippines. If you think of it, across South East Asia, only the Azkals have the highest number of players who have had experience in the European leagues and youth systems, and can be compared to the 'Roos in terms of individual competitiveness. The Aussies could, and I mean could, perceive the Philippines as their biggest threat compared to the traditional powerhouses Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, or Malaysia, as most of its players like the Younghusbands, the Guirados, Etheridge, Mulders, Cagara, Lucena, Patiño, and especially Schröck, have been more experienced and accustomed to the European style of play, compared to say Sharil Ishrak, Irfan Bachdim, or Teerasil Dangda. I do hope more developments would come with this. I'm excited for this next Suzuki Cup.
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Post by feindouno on Apr 7, 2013 10:22:08 GMT 8
The reason the qualifying round was instituted was because the have-nots (us back then, Brunei, Laos, Cambodia, Timor Leste) weren't good enough to match up with the haves (Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, MYA to a lesser extent). Now that the gap has been somewhat reduced (mostly due to our emergence), it was no longer necessary to have a qualifying round. However, if AUS joins the Suzuki Cup, the purpose of the removal of the qualifying round may be in vain, as we might get exposed to scores such as AUS 20-0 CMB.
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Post by peteryang57 on Apr 7, 2013 15:33:35 GMT 8
One of the most effective methods to improve our national teams is to have them to play consistently against much stronger teams. The introduction of the "Roos" is a welcome sight for Asean football. I was taught to play against a much bigger stronger and better opponent/team when i was a young apprentice, "One will never improve if he keeps on playing against a lesser weak opponent but instead he will find his lesser opponent has became strong and was able to beat him one fine day.The only way for him to keep his performance above is to keep playing against opponents who is much stronger than himself.
The Australians used to have their air force base here in Butterworth, North of Malaysia, and they has a football team as well. Imagine an 17 year old boy facing huge adult Aussies,where few of them, their size and muscles reminded me of Brutus in the Popeye cartoon series, Aussies are physical team, tough and strong but fair and when they come tackling at you it is like you are facing a rhino charging at you!. This was my experience as a young 17 year old junior being thrown to play for the club junior side, my baptism of fire against the adult Australian Air force soccer team who were based in Butterworth.
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Post by sashasocool on Apr 7, 2013 15:52:40 GMT 8
One of the most effective methods to improve our national teams is to have them to play consistently against much stronger teams. The introduction of the "Roos" is a welcome sight for Asean football. I was taught to play against a much bigger stronger and better opponent/team when i was a young apprentice, "One will never improve if he keeps on playing against a lesser weak opponent but instead he will find his lesser opponent has became strong and was able to beat him one fine day.The only way for him to keep his performance above is to keep playing against opponents who is much stronger than himself. The Australians used to have their air force base here in Butterworth, North of Malaysia, and they has a football team as well. Imagine an 17 year old boy facing huge adult Aussies,where few of them, their size and muscles reminded me of Brutus in the Popeye cartoon series, Aussies are physical team, tough and strong but fair and when they come tackling at you it is like you are facing a rhino charging at you!. This was my experience as a young 17 year old junior being thrown to play for the club junior side, my baptism of fire against the adult Australian Air force soccer team who were based in Butterworth. I can attest to that, playing footie in college we were made to play a men's club one time and they were told to go "rough" on us. oh how I hated getting kicked in the shins... however, Australia seemed to be part of this year's East Asian Cup. we qualified by topping a qualification tournament last year where we drew with the North. not a very good result tbh, since I reckon they are the weakest among the East Asian giants (China, Sokor, Japan) so the 'roos need to step up their game in order to have a chance of making it through.
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Post by cjeagle on Apr 10, 2013 1:19:00 GMT 8
Even though they are joining the AFF, it looks like they are still not interested in joining the Suzuki Cup as is mentioned in this article: www.interaksyon.com/interaktv/australia-to-join-asean-football-federation-but-wont-play-in-suzuki-cup"The development will make Australia eligible to participate in all AFF-sanctioned tournaments, including the Suzuki Cup, a biennial tournament which pits the senior national teams in the region. But Jensen dismissed the possibility of Australia playing in the Suzuki Cup anytime soon. “When Australia’s entry into the AFF is formalised, at this point we would not seek to enter senior national teams into the Suzuki Cup,” Jensen continued. “However Australia is committed to entering underage and Futsal teams into AFF competitions.” They seem to have not changed their stand which I mentioned earlier of joining youth level and futsal competitions in the AFF but not at the senior level. This will probably continually be the case, until AFF men's teams can prove that they can compete at the Asian level which the AFF is not doing right now if you look at the Asian Cup qualifiers.
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Post by stellarboy on May 7, 2013 14:42:57 GMT 8
AFF Suzuki Cup 2014 : Introducing New Format and China as invitee teamKuala Lumpur (5/7/2013)- The ASEAN Football Federation have created new format for the the upcoming AFF Suzuki Cup 2014. The new format will have three groups of four teams, with three group winners plus the one best second-placed teams will qualify for the Semi-Finals. In addition, the whole tournament will play a double round robin for the group stage and two legged home and away matches for Semi-Finals & Final of the competition. Brig Gen Khiev Sameth, a vice president of ASEAN Football Federation said this format will be a new thing to every teams and the tournament. This would be an interesting tournament to watch in our region and also it will give an opportunity to those teams that have not shown their skills in AFF Suzuki Cup. We also invited China to this tournament so that we would have 12 even teams on the upcoming AFF Suzuki Cup 2014. China have always been a good friend to our region in Southeast Asian that all the countries from here have great relationship with them. I’m honored to have them aboard in AFF Suzuki Cup. We are looking forward to this AFF Suzuki Cup 2014 next year. We hope we could bring a lot of viewer and fans. Jian Zhang, a vice president of China PR (Chinese Football Association) is pleased that his team are part of AFF Suzuki Cup 2014. Zhang said he would watch his team at this tournament and cheered for his team. The official draw of AFF Suzuki Cup will be on 12 July 2014 and The tournament will be slanted on 27 October to 9 December of 2014. Both Singapore and Vietnam the host of these tournament will be providing three venues of stadiums each ( 6 venues stadiums in total). Singapore Sports Hub Stadium & My Dinh National Stadium are the main venue, Jalan Besar Stadium & Thong Nhat Stadium are the secondary stadiums and Bishan Stadium & Hang Day Stadium are third stadiums. andy1890.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/aff-suzuki-cup-2014-introducing-new-format-and-china-as-invitee-team/
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Post by stellarboy on Aug 27, 2013 10:19:48 GMT 8
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Post by stellarboy on Aug 27, 2013 10:57:46 GMT 8
Socceroos could compete at 2014 AFF ChampionshippThe Socceroos could be set to contest the 2014 AFF Championships after Australia was unanimously voted into the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Football Federation. All 11 member countries agreed to admit Australia to the body, nine years after leaving the Oceania Football Federation to join the Asian Football Federation. ... When questioned previously on the subject, Football Federation Australia said it did not expect the Socceroos to be allowed to participate at the 2014 AFF Championships. However, after the formal announcement of its admission to the regional federation, an FFA spokesperson hinted that fresh attempts would be made to secure a place at the tournament next year. www.goal.com/en-sg/news/3952/asia/2013/08/26/4213964/socceroos-could-compete-at-2014-aff-championships
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