KUALA LUMPUR (19 Feb 2011) – Malaysia and Thailand have been announced as the two hosts of the preliminay round of the AFF Suzuki Cup 2012.
This follows the 18th meeting of the AFF Council for session 2007/2011 this morning in Kuala Lumpur.
The last AFF Suzuki Cup which was held just last December was a resounding success for the federation when Indonesia and Vietnam played hosts to the group stage.
More than 200,000 fans were at the two stadia which played hosts to the two-legged final at the National Stadium in Kuala Lumpur as well as the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium.
The last time Malaysia played hosts was back in 2004 alongside Vietnam while Thailand were hosts in 2006 with Indonesia.
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I thought we were rumored to be hosting the games next year after doing so well in the last edition.
ReplyDeleteI thought the same thing. Perhaps AFF thinks the stadiums are not ready yet.
ReplyDelete@ cjeagle -
ReplyDeleteKey word is "rumored". Because of that, nothing is final/certain.
It's also good thong the Philippines aren't the hosts. So we don't have to hear the embarrassment of the crowd chanting, "who let the dogs". hah!
"stadia are not ready" ??
ReplyDeleteStadia are non-existent!!!
Fine...that's an exaggeration. But the truth is that we don't even have the money to renovate our present heavily degraded facilities, and one year is not enough time for work to be done to the stadia.
The closest we have to use is Panaad. And thats with a lot of patch up work to boot. Rizal and Ultra are way below standards in terms of pitch quality and lighting although they seat more people. I dont think we can realistically host a tournament of that magnitude in the near future. Every country in the Suzuki with exception of Timor Leste has better stadia than we do. Remember, Panaad can only seat 15,000.
ReplyDeleteWe have the money and all to build a stadium but unfortunately football was not that popular until recently that's why private sectors didn't gamble for that thinking we have no chance in football.
ReplyDelete@ Jay -
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see that there are still people who are realistic and who uses they're brain rather than their hearts when saying/predicting/or whatever regarding the Philippine football.
A lot of people, especially after the achievement of the 2010 Suzuki Cup, want the Philippines to host more games/tournaments, they want to qualify for all kinds of tournaments and they believe that it's attainable in the near future when in reality it's not!
Lack of facilities is the reason Martinez gave for not hosting a semifinal match in the Suzuki cup. He described our stadiums as some of the posters here have. For this, he was castigated by the media, the fans and even by the players. Now I hear people giving the same excuses for not hosting events but I don't see the same widespread criticism that Martinez incurred for speaking the truth.
ReplyDeleteMartinez was public enemy no. 1, football wise that is. So whatever he did or say, even if it was the right thing/truth, practically everyone still gave him stick.
ReplyDeleteWhen Martinez took the option of not hosting the semis, I thought at that time (and still do) that he did right thing. Fact is, the truth hurts sometimes. Every now and then, people do need to get their heads out of their asses and look at the bigger picture.
Come on, lets not talk about Martinez again. He's gone and not because of his "realistic" comments. He actions spoke a lot more louder than his words. Unfortunately, most of his actions were illegal in nature and he sold us down the road when he agreed to that home and home tie Vs. Indonesia when a lot of other countries were offering to host our leg. Lets give it a rest and talk about infrastructure. which is what this thread is about.
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