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Fixtures ( 7/7/2007 ~ 29/7/2007 )

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This post has been edited by nakata101: Jul 29 2007, 10:51 PM

Australia will bring their superstars, rite? Viduka, cahill, kewell, middlesborough keeper etc

Brad Jones (also of Middlesborough) is touted to take over the no.1 spot from Mark Swarzher.

maybe iran @ australia win this cup

so hard to choose, but i think australia or iran will make it, japan seems like slightly fallen from form already

as a malaysian, i vote malaysia

We have a chance to see Australia to play at Malaysia, if they can go to semi-final, but i think it should be no problem for them.

-Iran vs China will be interesting match for me.
-Our national team is on impossible mission in this group C.

with home support, it will difficult for the opponents ...

government should make the admission free for malaysian involving malaysia matches, so all malaysian can go in...make loud noise...distract the opponents and sneak a 1-0 win...

we can't win on individual talents thus home support is important

there are already 3 votes for malaysia team already. seriously, the poll is which team will win the AFC cup, not which team will lose all matches i think the more realistic target go beyond group match

Malaysia had better win it, especially after them playing there at the expense of the canceled Man Utd tour ahaha

then we should buy tix and sing negaraku insideeeeeeeeeeee

i scare they might u might get dissapointed

ps:hows life kat nottingham uni?

now malaysia become favourite to win the cup.

Is good to see it, dun care they r playing around or bcoz just want to support it.....

Probably if Malaysia do clinch the AFC this year, we might see our PM declaring dat day a public holiday every year... probably will happen if we qualify for the World Cup as well

malaysia the highest ?

So patriotic mer? Lolz... Couldn't care less about the Malaysian team.

I'm going to go with either Australia or Iran to win it.

Malaysia don't have a chance in hell. They can't even beat Hong Kong FFS. They boys have no spirit, no discipline, no will and no ambition. Kinda sounds like the England team doesn't it? If our boys don't want to play for the team, boot them out and bring in players that do, same thing McClaren should be doing.

I think Australia has a high chance of winning it.

australia FTW since they got many epl superstars in the team but iran n korea n saudi might challenge the new member supremacy 4 the trophy we shall c

south korea will win it!

Malaysia will win!!

in your dreams!!!!

voted aus because of kewell

Don't want to pour cold water on those who voted Malaysia, BUT i doubt we will do it in the near future or rather in the next million years under the current FAM management.

but we must change our management first,and our player must go to play at oversea to get an experience
we just had Titus James at oversea league

This post has been edited by faris21: May 30 2007, 03:13 PM

my vote goes to the aussie,,
they've got better player,,
and in-form too i would say,,

ps:Malaysia? with group this tough, maybe not in a million years,,

Even if Malaysia were grouped with Macau, Laos and Philippines, I wouldn't dare say they would top the group.

Not just management but the player's quality must also improve drastically. I remember Norwich (or was it another club? ) was here in Malaysia to find any potential players for trial but they end up empty handed so that explain something I guess


With the likes of Bresciano (spelling? ) & fit again Kewell, the Aussie do looks like a strong contender. Not to forget Cahill is close to return as well. That will add more strength into their squad.


Same here, Duke

This post has been edited by alien2003: May 30 2007, 03:41 PM

seeing that the Man Utd v Malaysia game is canceled ....anyone is going to go to the stadium to watch the matches ?Malaysia matches or matches with other teams..

why so many ppl think australia will win ....

im going for iran or korea

Malaysia will win it for sure

ya...i agree with you...management and player must improve
But i also remember got one youngster got picked to be trained at Fulham
i think its better for our player to get competitive experience in Asia league 1st before can get acknowledgment form European league

For the Asia Cup...advantages are on Australia side as most of its well-known player are fit and ready to play

As a Malaysian...i hope they just can get past the group stages

This post has been edited by serve: May 31 2007, 01:48 AM

because they are guai lou

so happy to see malaysia top the poll:thumbs:

This post has been edited by BoltonMan: May 31 2007, 11:19 AM

Not Australia is a gui lou, bcoz they r really improve, u can see their performance in WC2006.

i hope Malaysia can go to next stage too,but if we`ll think realisticlly,Malaysia is posibble to do it

This post has been edited by faris21: May 31 2007, 12:05 PM

yalor, guai lou is more superior in football on this planet ...

if going by my heart, sure lah will want Malaysia to win...

but realistically speaking, I don't think we'll go far. Heck, maybe KO-ed in group stages, looking at the other teams in our group.

they must really bring in a more professional set-up in the Malaysian game, esp after all the debacles that we have had recently like the Man U cockup, Sarawak FA going bust, Negri coach going ballistic, player wages unpaid, etc....as they say in Chinese, "wok wok san sin" which translates to every time fresh problems.

sometimes it's pretty embarrassing to say that we are a progressive nation when management of simple issues are on a regressive notion....

Japan is still strong as ever. Australia, Korea and Iran will be the closest rivals and almost have equal chances to win. some might say Australia is the strongest but i think they're just as good as other strong Asian teams, if they play with their true strength. GANBATTE NIPPON!

actually korea is asia most powerful team...during the world cup qualfying rounds, they can win matches very easy and top the group very fast...but come to big tournament, they flop easily...it tooks them >10 years to win a world cup game but for saudi and iran, 1994 already did it....

today news, 4 of crocs players taking drugs.

i do feel OZ going to win the cup, japan & korea will put up a good fight. the european base of OZ players' overall standard are much higher than asian players (beside those fews in europe) Nakamura will be interesting to watch, scottish player of the year

LOL, Malaysia is the most favourites in this thread. Is that possible. We shall see.

Australia gonna win it..

i think i ll go to the stadium to support malaysia.. (the stadium is opposite of my house)
because its not easy to see malaysia enter the asian cup..
but im wondering am i the only one in the stadium to support malaysia?

Ok, we are going to play 3 matches, First is China,and then Uzbekistan ,finally Iran. In the first match, we must get at least a draw with china,and then we must win Uzbekistan to backup iran match. There is 4 pts.Hopefully we will end up in the second and go to the next round.

But, is that possible ?

I vote for malaysia because I support malaysia to win the cup.

Ok

Japan vs San Marino ...

who wins ?

When this friendly match start? I think Japan should be no problem to beat San Marino, Japan have no fear to any team from Europe.

of course i'll give my full support to the national team but winning it would be almost impossible and unrealistic, isn't it?

personally, i think Japan still the strongest even with Australia already joined the AFC now. the Japanese team possess great teamwork display and that will be the key point in their game. the last Asian Cup proved that. Nakamura has done a great job for Celtic this season and that's not just about his brilliant free kick. a bit of surprise to me though.

gonna support Malaysia all out!!act i dun even noe tat Malaysia qualified..

if malaysia get through even the group stages, i'll go to the stadium for every single malaysia match in malaysia ;p

den il hold ur words for tat den..

I vote malaysia!
indra back in the squad, hope he stenghten our team...

Yupp Indra's my fav player in the squad...a v v gd player indeed..

Where's that Akmal ? ,last time i heard that he almost joined norwich ?

Akmal have been injured for oh so many times..~~

there is no backup 4 iran match...still must not lose 2 iran or we r bungkus 4 sure

Int' Friendly Match
1/June
Indonesia 3 - 0 Hong Kong
Japan 2 - 0 Montenegro

2/June
Australia 1 - 2 Uruguay
Korea Republic 0 - 2 Holland

This post has been edited by nakata101: Jun 3 2007, 06:45 AM

a good game from indonesia is it??

3-0 win is consider good game from Indonesia to beat HK. R u indonesia supporter?!

actually can change the title to 'which team has the lesser chance to win the asia cup'

a lot of people say australia because of their world cup 2006 performance...

but still, i prefer nippon

Im just giving example to someone ehre that say westerners are better footballer

none african or asia nation win world cup before...still cannot say westerners are better footballer ?

Lolz, seriously, the people who voted Malaysia to win AFC, do you really think Malaysia can beat the likes of Australia, Japan, or even Iraq? Come on man.

oh, this thread name actually is 'which nation has the lesser chance to win asia cup' mah...

based from curret performance...
there is a long way 2 go if malaysia want 2 win afc...
just my 2 cent

Or i should put the Malaysia in "others".
But to be Malaysian, i should give other Malaysia ppl a chance to vote their national team a support. But we can ignore the impossible thing.

support shud come before a triumph, not after.

we, at sportsmalaysia.net, will support the Malaysian national team irrespective of the outcome.

This post has been edited by razlan: Jun 3 2007, 08:13 PM

Int' Friendly Match
3/June

Mexico 4 - 0 Iran

United States 4 - 1 China

Indonesia 0 - 1 Singapore

I think Iran and China still sleeping.....

they wanna keep their low profile or they already down this year

Expect the unexpectable..who noes mayb our country might spring up a surprise...

Hope so if the Malaysia got the secret weapon still dint show yet.

anything can happen in football. just wish them luck !

hope so

Not sure n dint see any Malaysia's preparations for Asian Cup 2007 yet, any friendly match for Malaysia come on this month?

ya...pray hard will rain dog shit, so we can sneak a 1-0 win in a heavy flood pitch

not wrong to support

yes i'm correct tats y i vote for tat country starts wit Uz.

lol

ok now serious time. australia will win it.

You are generalizing.

like my example earlier .

Japan vs San Marino...

Hhahahaha, yeah... Malaysia very good in playing raining game especially whole field is flood with water..

yeah... n still we need bomoh just to draw 0-0 with laos

If Malaysia can qualify to next round, i consider this is a success for Malaysia national team.

i thought if we can score a goal or draw a match already a major success

LOL, so many vote for Malaysia

Australia is the strongest team, but i voted for S.Korea

amazing...lots of support for msia! nice nice.

newspaper today said,the msia squad 's traninng in penang this month, will be focusing fulll on tactics..lets see how good it is during afc

Probability they draw all game with 0-0 also can qualify to next round, sure is depend with other team result...

Hmm, sounds like they are really wanna going to beat everyone..

hope they can beat every one n win AFC..
if that happen, this year will be written in malaysia books of record

If that happens, I'll pinch you to wake you up from your dream.

Aiya, haha.. come on la guys.. this time we all support Malaysia la...

I will support Malaysia first, confirm will watch all Malaysia match at tv, then second round i will support other team.

Wow, check out the local support, people must be starting to get influenced by the Hitz.fm community reach ads.

You won't catch me watching any of Malaysia's matches, unless of course they reach the finals...

Int' Friendly Match
5/June

Japan 0 - 0 Colombia

Kuwait(Al Salmiya) 1 - 1 Portugal