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Asian Championships 2008 - The Heat prove too hot for Singapore

Authored by: Graeme Carey
on Wednesday, September 10 2008 @ 12:18 pm ACST

True, not many, but a few, Asians in the teams. Lots of Brits, Kiwis, Irishmen, a few South Africans though, all of whom can become evangelists.
In the Under 16 comp there were a lot of Asian faces. That is the future.
As for the International Cup there are already three Asian teams, India, China and Japan. China were able to field a team in both International Cup and Asian Champioships. Normally Japan compete in the Asian Championships but as their side is predominantly Japanese nationals they optioned for the International Cup.
Whilst I agree that we need a programme to get the local inhabitants involved in the game, i see nothing wrong with the Asian Championships which involved over 400 players and officials to be the way it is, many of these guys are long term hands in Asia, they love their footy and they want to play, this gives it all meaning.
The International Cup is a different beast and of the South East Asian countries probably only Indonesia would have a chance of making up a team. However, if there were an ASEAN side that may be a different matter. Would be hard to organise but it is a possibility that has never been explored.

Asian Championships 2008 - The Heat prove too hot for Singapore

Authored by: Fiona Austen
on Wednesday, September 10 2008 @ 07:45 pm ACST

Brilliant!

Thanks for the photos Graeme AND for the work and effort in simply playing a game somewhere outside of Australia, let alone a fully fledged club tournament with teams from across Asia. Fantastic.

I for one think your comments and sentiments most welcome and club footy, as the basis of the game, is just as important as International Cup type events. Bring on all those juniors who will boost the National teams for the next International Cup and push the game into new markets across Asia. Exposure, exposure, exposure.

Besides some of those Heat guys are cute! Don't care if they are Aussies, Poms, Irish or Mongolian, they play the best code of footy in the world and don't have to be in comfortable suburban Australia to do it!

Asian Championships 2008 - Lao Elephants stomp into the scene

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User)
on Thursday, September 11 2008 @ 08:25 pm ACST

Some interesting comments.

Well, i'm new to all of this and really had no idea Aussie rules footy in Asia was anything more than a few expats going for a 'kick in the park'. I attended the Singapore games in the debut side of the Lao Elephants in my second run with the team. And thanks for the note in the article as it was a special day for us.

I'm early thirties, been in Lao for 3 years and before a month or so ago thought my footy days were all but gone until made some enquiries and got involved. It was a fantanstic event and well worth any effort made. Fact that Lao has a long way to go to step up to the boys at the top of this comps game but if let's see...

Hope to see this event and others like it continue to grow rapidly. With the numbers of expat moving overseas to work and some local recruits coming through the future is bright.

For a good read anyone can visit the Lao Elephants website for a rundown on how we seen the day - a good laugh to be had...

Langas

Asian Championships 2008 - Lao Elephants stomp into the scene

Authored by: Ash Nugent
on Saturday, September 13 2008 @ 07:26 pm ACST

Apologies if anyone has already mentioned this, but I notice the UAE Heat's jumpers list player numbers in Arabic form (with a small English version below). Good to see them making an effort to properly represent the Emirates.

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