SAFF Championship 2011, General Discussions Thread

Arsenalkid700 · November 2011

"teji&quot wrote:

Afganistan won't be easy for our team.. India had trouble beating them in 2008 afc challange cup, 2009 saff championship
i have read on the pakistanfootball.com that they might be bringing players from Holland, Germany, Norway, cyprus

Some aritcles of afghanitan football developments

<a class="postlink" href="http://footballafghanistan.com/news/01-05-2011/afghan-players-weekend-wrap-week-ending-1st-may-2011"; onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://footballafghanistan.com/news/01- ... t-may-2011</a>" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Former Afghanistan International spots hopefuls for his country in Germany
<a class="postlink" href="http://footballafghanistan.com/news/12-09-2011/former-afghanistan-international-spots-hopefuls-for-his-country-in-germany"; onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://footballafghanistan.com/news/12- ... in-germany</a>" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Mustafa Amini signs for Dortmund
<a class="postlink" href="http://footballafghanistan.com/news/07-07-2011/mustafa-amini-signs-for-dortmund"; onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://footballafghanistan.com/news/07- ... r-dortmund</a>" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Mustafa was born and raised in Australia. He is now going to play for the German champions as well. Ya I doubt he will play for Afghan at all. He will play for Australia's Seniors.

phanik1234 · November 2011

"ashindia&quot wrote:

Well why not merge South Asians and Central Asians,they don't have any such tournaments so invite them all.I'm sure its more fun to play against Uzbekistan,Tajiks who are more competitive.

8(S.A) + 4(C.A) = 12 Teams where 4 teams divided in 3 groups with top three and best 2nd placed team qualifying for Semi's <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/eusa/think.gif" alt=":think:" title="Think" /> <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/eusa/whistle.gif" alt=":whistle:" title="Whistle" />

getting Uzb is really difficult... they always looks for tough opponents.. <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/eusa/pray.gif" alt=":pray:" title="Pray" />

phanik1234 · November 2011

"shankar&quot wrote:

"ashindia&quot wrote:

Well why not merge South Asians and Central Asians,they don't have any such tournaments so invite them all.I'm sure its more fun to play against Uzbekistan,Tajiks who are more competitive.

8(S.A) + 4(C.A) = 12 Teams where 4 teams divided in 3 groups with top three and best 2nd placed team qualifying for Semi's <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/eusa/think.gif" alt=":think:" title="Think" /> <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/eusa/whistle.gif" alt=":whistle:" title="Whistle" />

<img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/bow/plusone.gif" alt=":bow-plusone:" title="PlusOne" />
This idea looks more convincing for me as it could help our neighbouring saff nations too get to play competitive nations with the quality too increased.....may be format could be 6 teams 2 grp with top 2 as semifinalist and so on...

6 teams in 2 groups.. I don't think so.. bcoz each team should play min 5 games <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/handgestures/thumbdown.gif" alt=":handgestures-thumbdown:" title="Thumb Down" />

Shah476 · November 2011

I think this is a good suggestion, however 12 teams too much. maybe the lower 6 should play the qualifying round, 3 team each group with both winners going through and then final 8 dvivded into 2 groups..this could work well like the AFF Suzuki Cup and perhaps bring little bit more harmony between the regional nations which exists amogst arab and asean nations...

usaindia · November 2011

<a class="postlink" href="http://sundaytimes.lk/111106/Sports/spt11.html"; onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://sundaytimes.lk/111106/Sports/spt11.html</a>
The Sri Lanka squad is scheduled to leave for Dubai on November 12 (Saturday) for further training where they will also play matches against five clubs in the United Arab Emirates. They will return to Sri Lanka on November 22 and will continue with their training sessions before flying off to New Delhi for the South Asian competition later this month.

panchgun · November 2011

All those suggestions about having a 12 team competition with south asian and central asian countries is not going to happen.To be frank no one would be interested as well.Look at it this way the only thing the south asian countries would be doing would be diluting the standard of the competition,and any ways from a fan point of view why would you want a bangladesh ,pakistan,maldives get hammered by anyone and everyone its bad enough they concede 10 everytime they play.So better let them not play and let them feel good about themseleves by winning the "BIG ONE""THE WORLD CUPof south asia"

panchgun · November 2011

sorry i stand corrected "THE BIG ONE" "THE REALLY BIG ONE" "MISSION IMPROBABLE" "THE WORLD CUP of south asia"THE SAFF CUP"

teji · November 2011

"sorry i stand corrected "THE BIG ONE" "THE REALLY BIG ONE" "MISSION IMPROBABLE" "THE WORLD CUP of south asia"THE SAFF CUP" <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/bow/plusone.gif" alt=":bow-plusone:" title="PlusOne" /> <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/happy/jumpyellow.gif" alt=":happy-jumpyellow:" title="Yellow Jump" />

shankar · November 2011

saff cup preparation of our main contenders-
maldives- they would be playing couple of friendly with Seychelles at the end of this month(they have announced the broadcast partner almost a week before the match,which aiff should learn from them)
bangladesh- they would be playing friendlies against indian clubs southern samity and pailan arrows(probably)..
afghanistan are currently holding camp in dubai and would be reaching delhi by end of this month...

shankar · November 2011

who is gonna telecast saff cup this time????is it gonna be ESPN as it was in the past or ten action,the new place to watch indian football????
any news ???

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