As per the facts, the last time Southeast Asian nation qualifying for the Soccer World Cup was in the year 1938. There is plenty of jealousy for the game in this astronomically immense region situated between India and China, but countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia have fallen far behind one-time rivals such as South Korea and Japan, now regarded as Asia’s best.
Highlights from an antecedent news is that the team that will win will surely have a quota to automatically kick AFC Champions League, which if true, could make this list a bit fascinating in a way. Soccer bosses in the region are launching an incipient competition for clubs that is to be kenned as the Asean Super League. The league will be initiated in August 2016 and will feature teams of the 12 participating nations that make up the ASEAN Football Federation which operate individually, simultaneously these are allied with the 10 country Association.
The general consensus of the participating nations designs the league as a domestic league season that can be organized anywhere in the ASEAN region.
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Hoping of standards, soccer bosses in the region are launching an incipient competition for clubs, which is to be kenned as the ASEAN Super League. The rumours state that Combodia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines will be contributing equally to the league by entering one or two clubs, as the case may be. East Timor, additionally kenned as Timor Leste, is expected to be joining the league later. Unfortunately Australia, the 12th AFF member, will not take part.
Alex Weaver, the coach of Warriors FC (the champion club of Singapore’s S.League), believes that it could help improving the game in the country and also will give soccer players a boost up for sure. Also some observers believe that the S. League is facing a hard time as it is struggling enough to maintain its status as a planarity professional league. Also it has not yet be finalized whether the team members will be the same who play in the domestic leagues or there might be some players of other clubs as well with the motive of increasing the competition. With the players of the other clubs the morale of the domestic players will upsurge and also will help the players closely experience the international soccer as well. This will surely be beneficial for the domestic players as they will learn a lot and will accordingly shape their career as well. It has been reported in the Singapore media that Singapore’s Lions XII team, composed of some of the country’s best puerile players, will peregrinate to the ASEAN Super League from the Malaysia Super League, in which it currently plays.
