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Thursday, November 19, 2009

 

Asian Cup flops

So we approach the end of another Asian Cup qualifying round and how much closer are South ast Asian nations to qualifying? In 2007 thanks to some political compromise there were four countries in Asia's flagship national team competition; Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. For 2011 in Qatar they may be just one. Singapore or Thailand.

Indonesia are as good as out. Malaysia don't have any points (Malaysia are pointless?!). The Thais can't score, three in four games, Singapore got thumped in Iran, Vietnam slipped up in the last minute against Syria. Not a rosy report card at all, is it?

The region's best effort in the Asian up came in 1968 when Myanmar was known as Burma and they finished second to Iran. South Vietnam (eh?) have twice appeared in the semi finals as have Cambodia (!) and Thailand. Success has been hard to find.

Below is a record of south east Asian nations in the Asian Cup. From 1972 positions refer to final place in group stage. Further detail here

2004 - China

Indonesia 3 1 0 3 3-9 3 finished 3rd
Thailand 3 0 0 3 1-9 0 finished 4th

2000 - Lebanon

Thailand 3 0 2 1 2-4 2 finished 3rd
Indonesia 3 0 1 2 0-7 1 finished 4th

1996 - Japan

Indonesia 3 0 1 2 4- 8 1 finished 4th
Thailand 3 0 0 3 2-13 0 finished 4th

1992 - Japan

Thailand 3 0 2 1 1-5 2

1988 - Qatar No nation qualified

1984 - Singapore

Singapore 4 1 1 2 3- 4 3 finished 4th

1980 - Kuwait

Malaysia 4 1 2 1 5- 5 4 finished 3rd

1976 - Iran

Malaysia 2 0 1 1 1- 3 1 finished 3rd

1972 - Thailand

Thailand 2 0 1 1 3- 4 1 finsihed 3rd after beating Cambodia in 3/4th place play off on penalties
Cambodia 2 1 0 1 5- 4 2 finished 4th after losing to Thailand

1968 - Iran

Burma 4 2 1 1 5- 4 5 finished runners up

1964 - Israel No nation qualified

1960 - South Korea

South Vietnam 3 0 0 3 3-13 0 finished 4th

1956 - Hong Kong

South Vietnam 3 0 1 2 6- 9 1 finished 4th

Comments:
Looking at the qualifying grps this time arnd show ACQ is getting tougher as AFC give 2 spots to AFC Challenge Cup & rid almost all the weaker teams there

Indonesia, who hve make it to last 3 Asian Cup Finals since it expansion to 16 teams, got Aussies & 2 Arab teams - Oman & Kuwait

Malaysia gt Uzb & UAE while Vietnam gt Syria, China & Lebanon

ASEAN will suffer for a while from now on but in the long term, it good as we hve no place to hide & every games in ACQ & WCQ will be tough so no more Nepal or Maldives etc for us to makan

It is a positive or a negative is up to each FAs on hw they wnt to develop to take on the new tough ACQ & WCQ era
 
some good points there happy. thx
 
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