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ASEAN – On the 2nd of March, sixty participants from ASEAN Member States convened electronically for the ASEAN-FIFA Webinar: Universal Design for Football Stadia and Sports Facilities, which included a mix of FIFA member associations, government officials, and sports practitioners. The webinar served as a forum for promoting accessible access for handicapped persons to football stadiums and sports facilities, as …

Malaysia – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob remarked that Chelsea of the English Premier League and the Vietnamese national team are the best model for football supremacy, and that Malaysia should learn from them and follow suit. Both have a fantastic academy, strong grassroots, and have created a sustainable footballing environment that should be the envy of all footballing …

Thailand – For a team that won the Asean Football Federation (AFF) Championship five times and made the final eight times, any finish outside the top two will be regarded as a failure by Thailand. After being knocked out in the semi-finals in the last edition in 2018, the War Elephants are bringing their big guns – including overseas-based players …

Malaysia – Lee Zii Jia, Malaysia’s best men’s singles player, had a final to forget after being forced to retire due to a lower back injury in the last set of the men’s singles match at the Hylo Open 2021 in Saarbrücken, Germany. Second seed Zii Jia was forced to step down from the game after falling down 12-17, handing …

Philippines – The 2021 US chess champion is a full-blooded Filipino named Wesley So. In view of this, The 27-year-old so, brought up in the Philippines however is presently an American resident, outclassed Fabiano Caruana and Samuel Sevian in the fast season finisher to administer the yearly occasion at the Saint Louis Chess Club in Missouri. It was the second …

Former World Junior champion Goh Jin Wei shocked the badminton fraternity today by announcing her retirement from the racquet sport, aged only 21. The Penangite announced her early retirement through a video posted on her YouTube, just two days after she was excluded from the Sudirman Cup squad. Related PostsChina Projects in Philippines Discovered Loaded with Cryptic ConditionsChina’s growing problem …

Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu, Minister of Youth and Sports, apologized to all Malaysians for a remark he made in a viral video yesterday regarding “adding” teams to the Super League next season. He also apologized to Datuk Hamidin Mohd Amin, president of the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM), and Stuart Ramalingam, secretary-general of the FAM, for mentioning their names …

Malaysia suffered a setback just recently when World Para Athletics (WPA) rejected its appeal regarding the men’s shot put F20 (intellectual impairment) result at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. National athlete Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli was classified as Did Not Start (DNS) due to a protest lodged against him. He broke the world record twice and would have won the gold medal …

The MP Promotions head Sean Gibbons shared recently that he’ll exhort Manny Pacquiao against doing a rematch with WBA welterweight very boss Yordenis Ugas regardless of the representative as of late thinking about a second experience in January one year from now. On the off chance that Pacquiao will battle one final time, Gibbons said he’d incline toward an occasion …

Afte the most awaited fight, Manny Pacquiao plans to take as much time as is needed prior to settling on his future however conceded that he may not get back to the ring after his agitated loss to Yordenis Ugas. The 42-year-old Filipino boxing whiz demonstrated he currently intended to direct his concentration toward his political profession in the Philippines …