Football Asia

[Andi Istiabudi]

Semoga AFF berhasil ...

AFF Susun Bidding Piala Dunia 2030
Muchamad Syuhada - Okezone

KUALA LUMPUR – AFF (federasi sepakbola kawasan Asia Tenggara) membuat gebrakan dengan berencana ikut dalam bidding Piala Dunia 2030. Dalam hal ini Australia juga diajak bergabung.

Dilaporkan oleh WorldfootballInsider, Selasa (12/4/2011) proposal yang telah disusun pada kongres AFF akhir pekan kemarin akhirnya mendapat persetujuan dari komite. Komite sendiri sekarang akan mulai mempelajari implikasi bidding dan statusnya akan dilaporkan dalam KTT ASEAN yang rencananya dilangsungkan di Jakarta bulan depan.

“Itu akan menjadi salah satu faktor yang mampu memperkuat persatuan ASEAN jika mampu menggelar Piala Dunia,” ujar perdana menteri Malaysia Datuk Seri Anifah Aman menanggapi wacana yang sebenarnya telah bergulir sejak awal tahun.

Indonesia dan Malaysia diketahui sebagai dua negara yang sudah pernah menyatakan kesiapan ikut dalam bidding Piala Dunia. Namun AFF sendiri belum bisa menentukan negara mana saja yang akan diajak ikut serta dalam rencana mereka.

Selain negara-negara yang tegabung dalam komunitas ASEAN seperti Indonesia, Malaysia, Filipina, Singapura, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Kamboja, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam dan Timor-Leste, AFF juga berencana mengajak serta Australia yang sebelumnya sempat mengajukan diri sebagai calon tuan rumah Piala Dunia 2022. (msy)

Source : http://bola.okezone.com

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Timnas Thailand Didiskualifikasi dari Penyisihan Olimpiade
Kris Fathoni W - detiksport

Bangkok - Timnas sepakbola putra Thailand didiskualifikasi dari fase penyisihan Olimpiade karena dinilai sudah menurunkan pemain bermasalah. Thailand sendiri siap mengajukan banding.

Pada fase pertama babak penyisihan Olimpiade 2012, Thailand menyisihkan Palestina bermodal kemenangan 5-4 setelah kedua tim berimbang agregat 1-1 dalam dua pertemuan.

Setelah melewati Palestina, Thailand pada awalnya bersiap menghadapi Bahrain di fase kedua penyisihan. Tetapi pada pekan lau media setempat justru sudah mengabarkan kalau Bahrain akan menghadapi Palestina ketimbang Thailand.

Saat itu disebutkan kalau Thailand sudah didiskualifikasi oleh Komite Disiplin AFC karena memainkan pemain yang sedang terkena larangan tampil, Sucharit Chanthakul, di leg pertama kontra Palestina. Sucharit sendiri mendapat sanksi pada Kejuaraan U19 Asia pada tahun 2008 lalu dan belum menjalani hukuman itu.

Asosiasi Sepakbola Thailand (FAT) kini mengonfirmasi kebenaran kabar tersebut, seraya memaparkan renca untuk mengajukan banding terhadap keputusan tersebut.

"Secara formal kami telah diinformasikan oleh AFC mengenai hal ini. Kami akan mengajukan banding," ujar Sekjen FAT Ong-art Korsinkha kepada Bangkok Post yang dilansir Reuters.

Sementara FIFA sendiri belum memberikan konfirmasi atau bantahan mengenai kabar tersebut. "FIFA sedang membuka penyelidikan terkait Thailand," jawab FIFA dalam surat elektroniknya kepada Reuters.

Source : http://www.detiksport.com

[rondwisan]

let's pray for both of them
rest in peace Yoon
get well soon Shin
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Tragedy strikes South Korean football
Soccernet, John Duerden - May 11, 2011


Sunday's K-League game between FC Seoul and Sangju Sangmu was one of the best of an already entertaining season. It had everything you want to see on a football pitch - seven goals, three equalisers, two red cards and one late winner to cap off an afternoon of great football bathed in warm May sunshine. As Hyun Young-min celebrated his 87th minute free-kick however, there were things happening on football pitches elsewhere in South Korea that nobody wants to see.

In Daejeon, Incheon United came back to win 2-1 only for the players to burst into tears at the final whistle, overpowered by emotion following the death of their goalkeeper Yoon Ki-Won two days previously. Down on Jeju island, striker Shin Yong-Rok was receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the pitch surrounded by disbelieving and distraught team-mates and opponents.

At the time of writing, 48 hours later, Shin, who was found to have suffered heart failure that interrupted the flow of blood to his brain, is still in a coma. With seven minutes remaining in Sunday's match against Daegu FC, the player suddenly fell on the floor with the reaction of all around him an immediate sign of the severity of the situation.

According to staff at Jeju Halla Hospital, he probably would have died had he not received such quick and effective treatment from medical staff as he lay on the grass at Jeju World Cup Stadium."It was a miracle that he reached the hospital in seven minutes," said hospital spokesman Kim Sang-Hoon."In 95% of these cases, there is not much we can do, but Shin is very lucky as he received treatment immediately." The 24 year-old is not out of the woods but as he is breathing by himself and as is known as one of the spikiest of strikers you could ever see - he is nicknamed 'Yongrok-ba' after a certain Ivory Coast and Chelsea star after all- there is hope.

Jeju United are supposed to be preparing for a vital Asian Champions League match against Melbourne Victory on Wednesday but few connected with the club care. Coach Park Kyung-Hoon should be preparing his players to get the win necessary to progress to the second round but is spending much of his time at the hospital. Instead of talking to reporters about his plans to tackle the Australians, Park is attending press conferences that are conducted by men in white coats, behind which are not the names of sponsors connected with the continental competition but blown-up scans of Shin's brain.

Shin has made three appearances for the national team and was hopeful of making more and going to the 2014 World Cup. He was one of the stars of the 2008 season when his goals helped Suwon Bluewings win the K-League title and, at the time, he was one of the most promising forwards in Asia. He spent two seasons in Turkey with Bursaspor before returning to Suwon and then moving down to the island of Jeju. He had yet to recapture the form of three years ago, but there were hopes that a settled period at the club would help him become one of the best in Korea once again. Now the hopes are of a different nature, all just want him to get well.

Korean football was already in shock. On Friday evening, news broke that Incheon United goalkeeper Yoon had been found dead in his car in southern Seoul. Just 23, Yoon had only become a professional player the previous year, joining Incheon as the fifth draft pick ahead of that season. The goalkeeper played just the one game in his debut campaign but started the 2011 season as the main man. After seven games, he lost his starting place in April after a 2-2 draw with Pohang. Police are treating his death as suicide.

The issue is a growing, though obviously sensitive, one in this prosperous and fast-moving nation. Korea enjoys overtaking neighbours Japan in many fields but there was no celebration in 2007, when the Land of the Morning Calm moved above the Rising Sun to have the highest rate of suicide among the world's most developed nations [those in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]. In recent years, agrowing list of high-profile figures have taken their own lives - most notably former president Roh Moo-Hyun in 2009.

There are concerns that such celebrity deaths can influence others; after famous actress Choi Jin-Sil killed herself in 2008, there was a 70% increase in people taking their own lives in the following month. But it is not confined to the rich and famous. One of the nation's leading universities, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, has been hit in 2011 by five deaths. Some, such as Kwak Kum-Joo, a psychologist at Seoul National University, put it down to the ultra-competitive nature of Korean society.

"It starts from a young age," said Kwak."Kids study incredibly long hours to get into the best schools that lead to the best universities that lead to the best jobs. We tend to consider everyone other than the first-place winner as losers. As the society gets modernised, human relations [are] cut. People don't have friends to share their hardships and listen to their problems."

Others point to the lack of focus on mental health issues compared to those of a physical nature. "This is the dark aspect of our rapid development," said Ha Kyu-Seob, a psychiatrist at Seoul National University College of Medicine. "We are unwilling to seek help for depression. We are very afraid of being seen as crazy." Shin had access to top-class medical treatment as soon as he collapsed on Sunday but options for those suffering from less visible problems are more limited. Sports psychology has still not taken off in most parts of Asia.

Whatever the reasons, those left behind are left shocked and bewildered at Yoon's death."Whenever I thought of Yoon, the tears wouldn't stop coming," said goalkeeper Song Yoo-Keol after the match at Daejeon. Team-mates hugged and comforted each other, while Incheon's travelling fans performed none of their usual singing and bouncing routines, choosing instead to just clap politely.

Head coach Huh Jung-Moo also had little interest in the result."Finding Yoon was the biggest plus of last season," said South Korea's 2010 World Cup boss, visibly upset. "We are all in shock. He was a sincere individual, a good player and a sincere team-mate. I remember saying to him in training two weeks ago that goalkeepers need to endure whatever comes their way. Whatever happens they must not move back and try to stop any ball, no matter how hard it is."

It has been a hard week for Korean football, but that is nothing compared to what the families are going through. There is not much more that can be said except that if the outpouring of grief and support from the beautiful game is anything to go by, Yoon will rest in peace and Shin will recover quickly.

[Andi Istiabudi]

Lanjutan berita dari Cak Ron diatas ...

Pemain Bunuh Diri, K-League Berikrar Anti Korupsi

Bola.net - Para pemain sepak bola Korea Selatan, pelatih, wasit dan ofisial menandatangani ikrar antikorupsi, Rabu (06/5), setelah seorang pemain diduga terlibat pengaturan pertandingan melakukan bunuh diri.

Para ofisial Liga-K mengatakan, ikrar itu ditandatangani 1.000 orang setelah diadakan dua hari pertemuan yang bertujuan menghapus pengaturan pertandingan serta aktivitas ilegal lainnya.

Para pemain berjanji tidak akan menerima tawaran dari para bandar judi serta segala bentuk usaha untuk mengatur jalannya pertandingan.

Pertemuan itu diadakan dua minggu setelah liga profesional negara itu dilanda skandal pengaturan pertandingan, yang berujung pada penahanan lima pemain serta dua orang yang diduga pengatur pertandingan.

Seorang pemain tengah berusia 29 tahun dari divisi tiga profesional Seoul United ditemukan bunuh diri dengan cara menggantung dirinya.

Dalam catatan yang dibuatnya sebelum gantung diri di dalam kamar hotel, ia menyatakan minta maaf karena sudah terlibat dalam skandal sepak bola.

Rumor menyangkut skandal sepak bola profesional di Korea Selatan semakin santer. Media negara itu melaporkan, klub-klub sepak bola berusaha menutup-nutupi masalah pengaturan pertandingan di negara itu dan berdiam diri bila mengetahui ada pemain yang terlibat, sejak tahun lalu.

Para pemain dilaporkan semakin banyak yang terlibat dalam skandal itu, karena negara kurang mampu mengatasi masalah judi sepak bola di dunia maya (online) yang dioperasikan jaringan judi di Korea Selatan dan China.

Asosiasi Sepak Bola Korea mengatakan Rabu, mereka akan membentuk komite baru untuk melakukan investigasi tentang judi dan korupsi dalam sepak bola negara itu. (ant/mac)

Source :

http://www.bola.net

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Hebat juga nih Malaysia ...

Malaysia di Kostum Cardiff Musim Depan

Bola.net - Cardiff City akan mengenakan jersey bertuliskan Malaysia musim depan. Malaysia telah menjalin kerja sama dengan klub yang bertanding di kompetisi level Championship Inggris ini.

Tulisan "Malaysia" akan terpampang besar di bagian depan kostum Cardiff dan di bagian belakang kostum tulisan tersebut juga akan terlihat dengan huruf yang lebih kecil. Garis putih dan kuning yang identik dengan Malaysia juga akan terlihat di bagian bahu kostum mereka.

Malaysia resmi menjalin kerja sama dengan Cardiff yaitu untuk membangun akademi sepak bola Cardiff yang berlokasi di Kuala Lumpur. Akademi tersebut bernama 1Malaysia Cardiff City Grasroots Academy.

Sebagai bukti terjalinnya kerjasama ini, Cardiff sengaja menolak beberapa tawaran sponsor lain agar Malaysia tetap menjadi tulisan utama di kaos mereka.

"Cardiff menerima sejumlah tawaran sponsor menarik dari beberapa merek ternama di Inggris dan mancanegara, tapi setelah berdiskusi dengan investor kami serta menimbang komitmen Vincent Tan dan TG, cara terbaik menampilkan kerjasama kami dengan Malaysia adalah dengan menampilkan pesan tersebut pada jersey kami musim ini," terang CEO Gethin Jenkins.

Source : http://www.bola.net

[Andi Istiabudi]

Wah parah juga nih, untung Park tidak bermain di liga lokal Korea hehehe ...

Akibat Pengaturan Skor, Liga Korea Terancam Dibekukan
Narayana Mahendra Prastya - detiksport

Seoul - Pemerintah Korea Selatan siap melakukan tindakan tegas terkait skandal pengaturan skor di K-League. Pemerintah mengancam tidak akan ragu-ragu untuk menghentikan kompetisi.

Skandal pengaturan skor dan judi menghantam Korea Selatan dalam beberapa bulan terakhir. Otoritas K-League menjatuhkan sanksi seumur hidup untuk 10 pemain--delapan di antaranya dari klub Daejon Citizen setelah mereka terbukti menerima uang dari petaruh.

Bulan lalu seorang pemain ditemukan tewas bunuh diri di sebuah kamar di hotel dan media di Negeri Ginseng melaporkan bahwa sebuah catatan yang ditinggalkan korban mengindikasikan keterlibatannya terhadap kelompok pengatur skor.

Bahkan klub papan atas yang dikelola oleh militer, Sangu Players, melakukan investigasi terhadap tiga pemainnya yang diduga terlibat skandal judi ini.

Situasi yang terjadi membuat pemerintah Korea Selatan siap mengambil tindakan tegas. "Jika ada pemain K-League yang tertangkap tengah berusaha menjual pertandingan mulai bulan Juli ini, maka tim mereka akan diskors dari liga," ujar wakil menteri bidang kebudayaan, olahraga, dan pariwisata Korea Selatan Park Sun-kyoo seperti dilansir dari Reuters, Kamis (30/6/2011).

"Kami juga tengah mempertimbangkan untuk membekukan K-League sebagai skenario terburuk."

Pertimbangan ini diambil usai pemerintah melakukan pertemuan dengan ofisial dari seluruh kontestan K-League yang berjumlah 16.

"Masalah yang dihadapi bukanlah sesuatu yang sederhana. Ini sudah menjalar ke seluruh dunia sepakola profesional dan sepakbola secara keseluruhan. Tim juga harus bertindak secara bertanggung jawab," tegas Park.

Para pemain diberi kesempatan hingga akhir Juni untuk memberikan pengakuan di bawah amnesti K-League dengan dijanjikan bahwa mereka yang mengaku akan diberikan sanksi lebih ringan. Namun oleh Park batas waktu itu diundur hingga 7 Juli.

Jaksa yang menyelidiki kasus ini dijadwalkan akan mengumumkan temuan hasil investigasi mereka pada tanggal 7 Juli.

Source : http://www.detiksport.com

[zudomiriku]

Drug Scandal Rocks The Women’s World Cup: North Korea Stars Test Positive For Steroids



The women’s World Cup in Germany has plunged into chaos after North Korea defenders Song Jong-Sun and Jong Pok-Sim both tested positive for steroids.

The players were tested after the first two games against the United States and Sweden and their samples were examined by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

The pair were immediately removed from the team that drew 0-0 with Colombia in Bochum on Wednesday as the authorities found a banned anabolic steroid in their system.

Following the match, the whole North Korea team were tested.

The tests were examined in a laboratory in Kreischa, east Germany, and then verified at the German Sport University in Cologne.

Despite the North Koreans being eliminated at the group stage the news of the drug scandal will rock the sport.

The sports reputation was severely dented by allegations that the Nigerian women’s team were banned from playing lesbians by the government.

These latest allegations, although unlikely to stop the continuation of the tournament, will certainly cast a dark shadow over the game.

“Two players from Korea DPR, Jong Sun Song and Sim Pok Jong, were provisionally suspended prior to their team’s match against Colombia in Bochum yesterday in view of adverse analytical findings in the ‘A’ samples collected during two anti-doping tests conducted after the team’s previous matches in the 2011 Fifa Women’s World Cup,” Fifa said in a statement.

“This is a unique event at the World Cup but if there are two positive samples in a team it means we have to investigate,” said Fifa’s chief medical officer, Dr. Jiri Dvorak.

“This is a very sad day.”

Another drug scandal has also emerged in the women’s game with Colombia star Yineth Varon failing an out-of-competition test conducted in Leverkusen on June 25.

Varon has also been provisionally suspended and disciplinary proceedings are still pending.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/ba739

[Rean]

The United Arab Emirates crushed Lebanon 6-2 in a friendly on Sunday. So maybe in an effort to make things interesting or maybe just because he simply does not conform to acceptable standards of penalty kicks, the U.A.E.'s Awana Diab decided to attempt an absolutely ridiculous penalty. And it worked.

Diab's setup seemed like any other for a penalty, but as he ran up to the ball, he stopped, turned around and backheeled the it toward the goal. Stunned by the audacity, madness and nerve it takes to try and score a penalty with your back to the goal, the keeper just stood and watched as the ball trickled into the net.

Acrobatics aside, the back-flip penalty kick has nothing on this.

U.A.E. manager Srecko Katanec did not appreciate Diab's creativity, though. He immediately substituted the player out of the match and after the game said that he would be disciplined for the "disrespectful act."

Huahahahaha akhirnya dihukum karena ga menghormati lawan

[HenryRooney07]

Piala Dunia Wanita
Tundukkan AS, Jepang Juara
Meylan Fredy Ismawan - detiksport


Frankfurt - Jepang menjadi kampiun Piala Dunia Wanita 2011 usai menaklukkan Amerika Serikat di final. Setelah bermain imbang 2-2 hingga babak extra time, Jepang akhirnya menang 3-1 di babak adu penalti.

Dalam laga di Frankfurt FIFA WWC Stadium, Senin (18/7/2011) dinihari WIB, AS unggul lebih dulu pada menit ke-69. Menerima umpan lambung dari lini belakang, Alex Morgan melewati satu bek Jepang sebelum melepaskan tembakan kaki kiri yang bersarang di gawang Ayumi Kaihori.

Jepang sukses menyamakan kedudukan sembilan menit jelang waktu normal berakhir. Memanfaatkan sebuah kemelut di kotak penalti, Aya Miyama menyontek bola melewati hadangan kiper AS, Hope Solo.

Pada babak perpanjangan waktu, AS kembali memimpin pada menit ke-104. Memanfaatkan umpan silang dari sisi kiri, tandukan Abby Wambach memaksa Kaihori memungut bola dari gawangnya.

Namun, mental pantang menyerah Jepang akhirnya berbuah manis. Mereka sukses menyamakan skor pada menit ke-117 lewat sontekan Homare Sawa.

Di babak tos-tosan, cuma satu eksekutor AS yang sukses menjaringkan bola, yakni Wambach. Eksekusi Shannon Boxx dan Tobin Heath digagalkan Kaihori, sementara tembakan Carli Lloyd melambung.

Di kubu Jepang, Miyama, Mizuho Sakaguchi, dan Saki Kumagai berhasil menuntaskan tugasnya. Cuma Yuki Nagasato yang gagal.

Ini adalah trofi Piala Dunia Wanita pertama buat Jepang. Tim berjuluk Nadeshiko ini juga jadi negara Asia pertama yang memenangi trofi tersebut.

Sementara buat AS, kekalahan ini menggagalkan ambisi mereka menjadi juara untuk ketiga kalinya.

( mfi / roz )

http://www.detiksport.com/sepakbola/read/2011/07/18/053601/1683097/73/tundukkan-as-jepang-juara

[Andi Istiabudi]

Selamat untuk timnas putri Jepang yang menjadi juara dunia 2011 !
Btw, dalam Sea Games besok ada cabang sepakbola putri tidak yach ? Minim pemberitaan dan info nih seputar timnas putri Indonesia ...