If you ever wonder how our Sleague have fared and how it contributed to national level soccer pedrigree - I can only tell you that Singapore has been crowned Champions of Asean Football Championships.
Hope to see more of Singapore national team getting more platforms and opportunities in world soccer stage.
Footage showing matches played by Singapore team towards crowning Champions.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Singapore crowned Champions of Asean Football Championship 2007
Sleague - Top Goals in 2006
Where best to start introducing Sleague soccer, than showing you the video on the Top Goals in 2006 in the Singapore Professional League.
Enjoy!
Sleague - Shaping The Future of Local Football
Ever heard of Sleague. Yes - It is the Singapore Professional Soccer League, that was started some 10 plus years ago. Singapore is a small nation, some call it the little red dot on the globe. But we are definitely passionate about soccer.
Not just World Cup, EPL and Spanish La Liga or Italian Serie A. We have our own Sleague which consists currently of 9 local singapore teams, and 3 foreign teams that are make up of their countries (Korea, Japan and China)young starlets - that can't wait to shine.
Sleague - Shaping The Future of Local Football
Sunderland Maintain Good Start to EPL
Birmingham 2 - 2 Sunderland
Paul McShane (og 28)- Michael Chopra (75)
Garry O'Connor (82)- Stern John (90)
Stern John stunned his old club with a last minute leveller as Roy Keane's Sunderland once again showed never-say-die spirit in spades in a 2-2 draw at Birmingham.
After getting their season off to a flyer with a last-gasp win over Tottenham on Saturday, Keane's men refused to accept defeat after sub Garry O'Connor gave Birmingham an 82nd minute lead.
After heading against the crossbar a minute later, John - who left St Andrew's for the north-east last season - pounced to bundle home after Ross Wallace's 90th minute free-kick.
'It usually happens, so I was confident he (Stern) would score. I keep saying it is not a coincidence to score so many late goals, because the desire and determination was there for all to see.' - Keano says it all...
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Sunderland off to a winning start!
Yup Yup Yup...
Sunderland has done it..Winning start to a EPL campaign against Spurs - a team earmarked to make improvements this year that will see them squeeze into Top 4.. New signings for Sunderland are doing fine which are so important to have that confidence and motivation coming through...
Keano factor has truly been practiced..Focus Focus Focus even to the very last second. And You Play Soccer - To WIN! He has that Winning Mentality that is so important for a just-promoted team...
Well Done Keano and Black Cats...MEOW!!!!
Sean Chua's EPL 07/08 Predictions
This is how i think the 20 teams will finish: (Descending orders)
- Man Utd - Alex Factor plus astute new signings and maturity of R n R
- Chelsea - Master Tactician. Team be gelled this season
- Liverpool - Astute Signings. Torres great factor. Master Tactician
- Tottenham - Great Strike Force. Martin's a great manager and Tactician
- Arsenal - Van Persie and Fabregasc will be strong linkers for team
- Newcastle - SAM the great crafty motivator will be factor. Great signings too
- Blackburn - Good hardworking team. Mark Hughes experience will be impt
- Sunderland - Keano Factor - Purely motivating factor coming into place
- Aston Villa - Agbonlahor, John Carew and Ashley Young factors
- Portsmouth - John Utaka and David Nugent are proven scorers
- Everton - Uefa Cup involvement may caused YOYO effect for Toffees
- Man City - Couple of good signings. Management of club doubtful
- Middlesborough - Top strikers Viduka left and Nigerian Forward unsettled
- West Ham - Alan's experienced be helpful. Some great signings too
- Bolton - Lost of Big SAM is unsettling. New manager does not have experience
- Fulham - Spent lots of money on unknown qualities. Lawrie too new too
- Derby County - Billy seems to be good tactician. Good luck Rams
- Wigan - Charismatic Paul Jewell has left, plus couple good players. Goodbye
- Birmingham - ;ack of quality in the striking section. History repeats for Steve
Hey. Those are my predictions. Let's see how the season ends..can't wait to see them happening.....Sunderland to be the relevation this season..just like Reading and Wigan for last season...
Top EPL Managers
We shall look at the top EPL managers since the season has just unfolds.
Don't seems to difficult to do this one i suppose...as we are assured of consistency from managers that have done it before - Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, Arsene Wenger, Rafael Benitez..some will also go for Martin Jol from Spurs or Sam Allardyce from Newcastle..but for me, following will be the Top 5 Managers for this new season:
- Alex Ferguson - Master of Wisdom and Chief Motivator. Always in command
- Jose Mourinho - Crafty Tactician. Mind-playing craft second to none
- Sam Allardyce - Wise crafty Tactician. Very experienced and composed
- Rafael Benitez - Crafty Tactician. Reads opposition well
- Roy Keane - Supremo attitude. Strong position for Focus and calls for true passion
Yes. I have chosen Roy Keane. Roy has always been full of controversial such as KING Eric Cantona in their playing days. Both calls for focus and passion of the game - and shows plenty of aplode and true brilliance in their games. Such Charismatic personalities can only transformed them into Great Leaders - yup.. Managers with the True Leadership - that can manage and lead them to success. I feel Roy will make Sunderland to survice well in the EPL this season - and perharps challenge for UEFA cup near the end stage...and not to be relegated like previous seasons. Yup..This Sunderland is different! It has the KEANO factor in it! Cheers, =)
EPL - The Foreign Invasions
As much as 70 per cent of England's top clubs will soon be foreign owned..Have you noticed it by the way? Yes! It is true. We heard of Thaksin, Glazer family, Roman Abramivich, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Randy Lerner and Carson Yeung.. Nine premiership clubs are owned by foreigners, and that number is set to increase.
This foreign investors have created an avalanche of resources to the club managers - and the managers are seemingly recruiting from overseas...
Check out the following - My Top 5 Foreign Players this Season:
- Didier Drogba - 29 yrs old, Chelseas Striker from Ivory Coast
- Cristiano Ronaldo - 22 yrs old, Man Utd Winger from Portugal
- Dimitar Berbatov - 26 yrs old, Spurs Striker from Bulgaria
- Carlos Tevez - 23 yrs old, Man Utd Striker from Argentina
- Mascharano - 26 yrs old, Liverpool Midfielder from Argentina
EPL - What is So ENGLISH?
This EPL was named as English Premier League (EPL) because of the players came from Britian - not just England, but also hailed from Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Northen Ireland.
The case has not been the same for the past 5 seasons. It is towards the extreme end where there are over 337 foreign players in the Primiership, represented by 66 national states. Incredibly, about close to 60 per cent of players kicking off the new season will be from abroad.Only a mere 40 per cent are the home-grown players ! That shall somehow relates to how England National Team (Three Lions) have been performing the last few years!
In the top four teams - that number rises significantly to 72 per cent, according to a local press statistics data. Many and that include me, believes the tide of foreigners will sweep away any hope England have of winning a major trophy like World Cup again. Geoff Hurst once said: "If English players are not playing in the premiership, how can they expect the national team to be the best of the world?"
So what makes the Premiership English, other the officail language? Arsenal - has none English players in the 1st Eleven! What an irony. Perpharps in 2-3 seasons later - it might well be known as International Premier League - thise time based simply by the amount of money involved as well as the transfer fees and salary scale are practiced.
Nevertheless, i have picked out 5 Top English Players from the Premiership:
- Wayne Rooney - 21 yrs old, Man Utd Striker
- Steven Gerrard - 27 yrs old, Liverpool Midfielder and Captain
- John Terry - 26 yrs old, Chelsea Defender and Captain
- Rio Ferdinand - 28 yrs old, Man Utd Defender
- Owen Hargreaves - 26 yrs old, Man Utd Midfielder
Money Money Money - Big Spenders to Win?!
Top EPL clubs such as Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham are soending to buy success this season - ans appeals to them to keep the sould of soccer in mind and not just look at the cash flow. Still rmbr where Leeds came and let off since their heavy spending? - they are sliding down their ranks constantly. Now they are in administration and languishing in Division 3.
The top EPL clubs' money-no-object buys have resulted in some expensive players putting their signatures on the dotted line. Top summer transfers are:
- Fernando Torres - 20.2 million pounds, Athletico Madrid to Liverpool
- Owen Hargreaves - 17.3 million pounds, Bayern Munich to Man Utd
- Darren Bent - 16.5 million pounds, Charlton to Spurs
- Nani - 16 million pounds, Sporting Lisbon to Man Utd
- Anderson - 14 million pounds, Porto to Man Utd
- Florent Malouda - 13.5 million pounds, Lyon to Chelsea
- Ryan Babel - 11.5 million pounds, Ajax to Liverpoll
- Craig Gordon - 9 million pounds, Hearts to Sunderland
- Rolando Bianchi - 8.8 million pounds, Reggina to Man City
- Nigel Reo-Coker - 8.5 million pounds, West Ham to Aston Villa
Cheers,
Sean =)
eNjoY tHe GamE!
English Premier League (EPL) - Here We Go!
HERE WE GO...Fans are set for English Premier League Kick-Off!
20 English Premier League (EPL) teams will slog it out again, a gruelling 9 months that strech from Aug 07 - May 08 period, where season will come to a close to see who will be crowned the Champions -that receives 50 million pounds in televison revenue and prize money, which other 3 teams will join the champions to be involved in subsequent Champions League action, as well as the last three teams - that will get relegated to the 1st division. Btw, in case you don't know, the botton club will nevertheless get 26.8 million pounds.
At the end of season, besides the 4 Champions League places, there will also be 3 UEFA Cup places awarded to teams that finsished 5th-7th placing.
The top two sides qualify automatically for the Champions League, going straight through to the next stage. The team that finish third and fourth qualify for the the Champions League, but must play in the 3rd qualifying round. The winners are then admitted to the group stage. The fifth-placed team qualify for the UEFA Cup, as do nthe FA Cup and the League Cup Winners.
PS: The EPL is the most lucrative football league in the world. It has the fourth-highest revenue for any sports league worldwide. Only the three most popular North American major sports league, Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association (NBA) are ahead.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Whiz Kid joins Man Utd - Wonderkid to Shine!
All Red Devils Fans..Seems like Man Utd has signed a wonderkid Rhain Davis which is only 9 years of age. Goot that his grandfather send his training and match video to Man Utd where he trains in Australia club.
Just look at the confidence he has in dribbling past players after players, his distribution and his eye for goal. Most impt, i can see Passion and Love in his game..
Enjoy the video. Hope to see him progress through the ranks and be the next Ryan Giggs and David Beckhams
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