YOG football: Singapore beat Montenegro 4 - 1 and wins the bronze

The candid photo taking after scoring the 4th goal.
Photo: SPH-SYOGOC/Seyu Tzyy Wei

The Singapore boys had won the match and clinched the well deserved bronze medal in the YOG football match. The match was telecast live at 6 pm local time. This will go down as one of the most amazing match for Singapore football.

Singapore scored the 1st goal in the 6 minutes, however the joy was shortlived, 2 minutes later, Singapore captain suffered a bad cut on his face from the elbow of a Montenegro player, he had to be replaced. And within 2 minutes Montenegro equalised to make it 1-1.

Singapore's captain, Jeffrey Lightfoot bleeds profusely, after colliding with Montenegro's Lazar Lalosevic (right in white).
The match was won in blood, sweat and tears.
Photo: SPH-SYOGOC/Seyu Tzyy Wei

The match ended 1-1 at half time.

In the second half Singapore scored 3 goals to win the match. Hanafi scored the 2nd goal from a cross, a penalty taken by Midfielder Ammirul Mazlan made it 3-1. Hanafi's scored again in the 65th-minute freekick into the Montenegro net to make it 4-1.

The team line up before the match against Zimbabwe. Such colourful boots.

A great day indeed. This young football team has great potential in the future, I guess we will be following the team closely. Today we are so proud of them.


Bolivia won the gold medal after thrashing Haiti 5-0 in the final match. The Bolivians played with 10 men after Rodrigo Mejido was given a red card in the first half for throwing an elbow.

YOG Soccer Singapore 0 Haiti 2

The matched ended with Haiti winning the game. Haiti now faces Bolivia in the finals.

A Singapore player was send off for a tackle in the last minute and Haiti scored from the penatly spot. 3 minutes before half time, Haiti scored to lead 1-0, a school mistake from goalkeeper Fashah Rosedin. Anyway, all the players are 15 years old, this will be part of a learning curve for their future football career.

The Singapore boys played well, however it was just not their day. I think Singapore was the better team. The boys will now play for a bronze medal. Hopefully, they can pick themselves up and give their best shot in the final game, afterall there is a medal to play for.

Congratulation to Haiti, my earlier prediction was wrong. This win will bring happiness to their country.

Singapore Youth Olympic Singapore Vs Haiti Football

The tickets are snapped up pretty fast, and it will be a full house tomorrow. Lucky there will be a live telecast for the semi-final match Singapore vs Haiti, at 8:40pm Singapore time.

Bolivia thrashed Haiti 9-0 in the Youth Olympic Games boys' football tournament at Jalan Besar Stadium on 16 Aug. The local fans cheered for the Haiti boys when they came back to beat Vanuatu 2-1 in their last group match.

Hit by a 7-magnitude earthquake in January this year, which killed an estimated 300,000 people, made 1.6 million people homeless and left their country's capital Port au Prince, in ruins, Haiti were a late replacement for Cuba the YOG football competition. Singapore welcomes the brave Haiti athletes, they hope to rebuild their country by giving a good performance and bring smiles to their countrymen. Results doesn't matter, by travelling all the way here (hard to get funding) and taking part is already an amazing achievement.

My prediction is a win for Singapore.

Singapore beat Montenegro 3-2

Photo: SPH-SYOGOC/Seyu Tzyy Wei

YOG football: Singapore beat Montenegro 3-2
Thu, Aug 19, 2010

Was watching the live telecast earlier, again Singapore boys scored an early goal, played an aggressive match with great spirit & passion. The European players are much bigger than them, but it terms of skill, passing and speed we are certainly better.

Singapore young soccer players put up a superb performance in front of a sold-out crowd to beat Montenegro, 3-2.

The Singapore cubs struck first with an early goal, in 3 mins. This was followed by an equaliser from Montenegro. Shortly, Montenegro went up 2-1 from a penalty kick.

Singapore then equalised before the half time.

Playing in front of a home crowd, the cubs put up a spirited performance, frustrating the Montenegro players many a times.

In the second half, one of the Montenegro players punched a member of the Singaporean team following a tumble. The referee saw that and immediately awarded the player a red card, ejecting him from the field and leaving Montenegro with just 10 players.

Using their advantage, Singapore went on to score a third goad. With Brandon Koh taking Singapore into the lead 3-2. The YOG soccer match is played 80 mins, rather than 90 mins.

This is the hope of Singapore soccer. Look forward for the next match. We are now in the semi finals!

Singapore Youth Soccer Team

Singapore made a winning start in the Youth Olympic Games football tournament when they defeated Zimbabwe 3-1 in their opening Group D match at the Jalan Besar Stadium on Friday. Watch this stunning strike from Singapore's Ammirul Mazlan, who fires a powerful strike from 20 metres to score after 12 seconds from kick-off.

The official match can be viewed on youtube in HD (Singapore 2010 Football - Men's preliminaries - Singapore Vs Zimbabwe)



Singapore will next play Montenegro on August 19.

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