A solitary first half goal from Sujal Shreshtha was enough to seal a 1-0 victory for Nepal over Macau in the final of the 2016 AFC Solidarity Cup at the Sarawak Stadium in Malaysia on Tuesday evening. Shreshtha scored in the 29th minute to give Nepal the title and cap an impressive performance …
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HRH Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, President of the Jordan Football Association (JFA) and Chairman of the Asian Football Development Project (AFDP), welcomed to Jordan today His Excellency Jose Ramos-Horta, Former President of East Timor and Noble Laureate, and accompanied him to the Zaatari refugee camp in Northern Jordan. During …
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Recently the Chinese Football Association appointed former Italy manager Marcello Lippi as their new China head coach after their bumpy start into the 2018 FIFA World Cup – Asian Round 3 qualifiers. After success with Italy and Guangzhou Evergrande, Lippi knows that he is taking on a tough assignment in …
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has announced the full list of nominees for this year’s AFC Annual Awards gala to be held in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, on December 1, 2016. The AFC will announce more awards at a later time and information on these will be made available in …
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) media team has picked its Top 10 goals of the 2016 AFC Cup, which includes goals from Indian participants Bengaluru FC and Mohun Bagan featuring Sunil Chhetri, Eugeneson Lyngdoh and Bikramjit Singh.
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has announced the names of the three nominees for this year’s AFC Player of the Year Award in the women’s and men’s categories. This year’s annual celebration of the stars of Asian football will take place at a glittering gala event in Abu Dhabi in …
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The first Indian Woman Assistant Referee ever to officiate in a FIFA World Cup, Uvena Fernandes, will be awarded with the AFC Referees Special Award 2016 in recognition of her officiating in the final match of the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Jordan between Japan and North Korea. …
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The Deputy Chairman of the AFC Disciplinary Committee has provisionally suspended four Laos players for sixty days for various violations of the AFC Disciplinary Code and AFC Code of Ethics related to suspected match manipulation. The players were registered at the 2016 AFC Solidarity Cup and participated in the first …
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Besides writing on my blog arunfoot.com, I now regularly do my arunfoot Videoblog on Facebook LIVE on the latest in the world of football with a special focus on Indian and German football. In the latest installment I speak about the following: 1. Bengaluru FC lose the AFC Cup …
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Here above are some snaps of AFC Cup finalists Bengaluru FC arriving back home at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru on Monday, November 7 from Doha, Qatar. The Blues fans had come in numbers to meet their hero’s with some of the players showing their disappointment of not having …
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