The Singapore back four defending against a Zimbabwe free kick. (Photo 12 © Tan Jon Han/Red Sports)
Zimbabwe’s Ben Chikanda lunges from behind to challenge Singapore’s Amirul Iskandar. (Photo 13 © Marvin Lowe/Red Sports)
Amirul Iskandar jumps in mid-air to attempt a volley at goal. (Photo 14 © Marvin Lowe/Red Sports)
Singapore defender Illyas Lee (#14) makes a timely interception to break Mgcini Sibanda’s (#15) run into Singapore’s penalty area. (Photo 15 © Tan Jon Han/Red Sports)
A banner in memory of the beloved late coach David Sivalingam was held up by family members of the football team. (Photo 16 © Marvin Lowe/Red Sports)
Jonathan Tan’s run in towards goal was halted by a strong challenge. (Photo 17 © Marvin Lowe/Red Sports)
Singapore’s physio runs out to help a fallen player amidst a raucous atmosphere of whistles and cat calls. (Photo 18 © Marvin Lowe/Red Sports)
The Singapore team carrying out a pre-match ritual before kickoff. (Photo 19 © Tan Jon Han/Red Sports)
The boys are Great! But where is AYG supporting striker #19?
Hey Lis,
are you referring to Adri Adnan? I remembered he did rather well last year.
Hi Kenneth, am every part of all that u have mention;-) no prob I am
glad to share as I would love to see them kept as long as possible to form the back bone of 2015 sea games n future lions! Even though they have been together since late 2006 training and represent singapore in 2007, but I find that 2008 was a wasted year as most of them were not training together in national squad, imagine if that whole year was not wasted I believe they would have fair much better in 2009 AYG, nonetheless I for one believe this will be their year to shine and am sure a medal awaits then regardless of the medal colour. This is very best way of inspiring youth to take up sports or better football, and gain back the love of the fans that had been missing since the early 1990s.
http://www.fas.org.sg/default.asp?V_DOC_ID=2646
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CapitaLand Retail U-12 Team depart for Tokyo
The CapitaLand Retail Under-12 Team left for Tokyo via Bangkok on Saturday in preparation for the Saitama International Junior Football Tournament, which kicks off next week.
Group picture of the CapitalLand Retail U-12 Team at the airport.
Accompanying the 18-strong squad were Robert Lim (Team Manager), A. Shashikumar (Head Coach), Robin Chitrakar (Assistant Coach), Jeykanth Jeyapal (First Aider) and Hairil Amin (Goalkeeper Coach).
The CapitaLand Retail Under-12 Team have been drawn together with Saitama Prefecture North, Fukushima, Gunma and Aichi in Group H.
On Wednesday 25 July, the boys will get a chance to play at the Saitama World Cup Stadium in a friendly tournament.
The competition proper kicks off Thursday 26 July when the team will play Fukushima at 9.30 am local time and will follow that up with a match against Saitama Prefecture North at noon.
The following day, the boys will go against Aichi at 10.40am and Gunma at 3.10pm.
It has been a long journey for these players, which began in June 2006 during the CapitaLand Retail Junior Cup.
The final squad of 18 was selected from the 53 players short-listed from the CapitaLand Retail Junior Cup.
CapitaLand Retail Under-12 Team: Adam Swandi, Amirul Asraff, Ammirul Emmran Mazlan, Jefrrey Adam Lightfoot, Brandon Koh Kim Leong, Illyas Lee Si Qin, Mohammad Fashah Iskandak, Mohd Faizal Roslan, Mohd Hanafi Mohd Akbar, Muhammad Danial Masral, Muhamad Muhaimin, Muhammad Adam Ali, Muhammad Adri Adnan, Muhammad Amirul Iskandar Khairul Anuar, Muhammad Irfan Asyraf, Peck Weng Guang, Syazwan Radhi Kasim, Jonathan Tan Zen Yang
Hi Jason Bourne,
just being curious, how’re you related to the team? Friend/school mate/teacher/Just a random fan? You seems to know a lot about the team.
Thanks for sharing these info with our readers here, greatly appreciated!
Hi Sipi, if u hv not read my comments carefully! U do the math urself 2008 this yog boys would hv been in sec 1 hw could they represent U-12 n finish last, pls get ur facts right, 2008 is last cos not represented by the best u-12 in Singapore it was represented by a primary sch, if am not wrong yck primary sch. This YOG boys took part the 2007 edition where they came in 12 from out of 50 participartin teams. Since late 2006 they hv been traing together, u need more info chk out FAS website, or simply type capital land u-12 saitama.
Come on cubs go all the way for montenegro game!
@Jason Bourne
in 2008, singapore finished last… and well done boys.
Everyone was cheering for singapore’s medic during the second half, haha
Thanks to Victoria School’s fervent support, among others, I had to watch the match from the car park next to the swimming pool. It was a good idea to sell the tickets for the entire match day, so that people wouldn’t have to pay double just to stay in the stadium, but what it resulted in was tons of empty seats for Vanuatu vs Bolivia because the students who had bought the tickets only turned up for the Singapore match.
I really appreciate the support that our boys are getting, and I loved the full house and chants of Singapore, Singapore which I could hear from the 25th floor of block 807… all that was good, but the two empty blocks of seats stuck out like sore thumbs on either side of the gallery even after the students had come in for the later match.
Singapore won 3-1, but there could have been more people in that stadium, and we all know it. I honestly hope that in the race for tickets, the schools have not outdone the general public, who should get behind the Youth Olympics as much as the students do.
If the youth sports effort is seen as only for the students, to the exclusion of the rest of Singapore, then it will be difficult to sell the option of professional sports to the adults, and this will put a damper on the sports culture in Singapore past a certain age.
And what happens if the parents of the next generation believe that sports is a thing for kids, but should not be pursued after school days? We will keep treading water as far as sports is concerned.
I take it you tried buying tickets at the door?
Congrats to the boys! Make u form the backbone of 2015 SEA Ges to be held in Singapore and bring back a goal medal. Here is a fact for you all fans out there, out of the first 11, 10 players except dukhilan were actually have been traing together since end 2006 as they took part in the 2007 Saitama tournament and brought Singapore glory with the best ever finishing for u-12.