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  1. A Year with Laurent: Only the Illusion of Success?

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    By Ulysse Pasquier

           Les Bleus wrapped up 2011 with a 0-0 draw at home against Belgium, an unconvincing performance that unsettled many critics in France. Just over a year since taking the top seat, the grace period and overall optimism linked to Laurent Blanc’s appointment have clearly evaporated. There is no talk of getting rid of the former Bordeaux coach of course but the consensus is evident: France is not playing good enough with the player it has. It is true that France seemed to lack pace and presence in the final third against Belgium and even during the win against the USA. Yet, Blanc’s men have just booked their place into the Euro (without going through the playoffs) and are currently defending a 17-game unbeaten streak. So which is it? Is Blanc fulfilling his promises or was 2011 only the illusion of a successful year for Les Bleus? 

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  2. Daily Updates

    DAILY UPDATES:

    • Day 1: Thailand leads with 3 gold, 1 bronze. Following is Indonesia with 2 gold, 2 silvers and 1 bronze. At number three Myanmar (Burma) with 2 silvers and Singapore at number four with 1 silver, 2 bronzes. (All medals are from canoeing).
    • Day 2: (@3PM update), Singapore jumped over Thailand who was ranked #1 on the first competition day. Today Singapore is following Indonesia who tops the medals collection with 10 golds, 9 silvers and 1 bronze. But still half way to go for today’s competition. There still 28 more gold medals to be collected. @11 pm: Days two competitions completed. 43 gold medals have been delivered. Indonesia collected most of the gold medals and Tops the medal tally position. Singapore did very well today with 7 gold, 8 silvers and 8 bronzes made Singapore on the 2nd place of the daily rank. Following at Number three is Thailand.
    • Day 3:(@update 2.30pm) Indonesia still tops the medal tally followed by Thailand who replaced Singapore on the 2nd place. Amazingly Thailand swept away all the four medals available for Martial arts “Tae Kwondo“. What’s confusing up to the 3rd days is that Malaysia doesn’t seem to make any progress. I thought Malaysia is one of the favorite champions. What happening? Meanwhile, Big changes happened in the medal tally position. Singapore slipped to #4 below Vietnam and Thailand who is still on the 2nd place and entangled to Indonesia that seems to be much stronger topping the medal tally position with 40 gold, 20 silvers and 19 bronzes (update@10.30PM). Sp Note: Indonesian U-23 Football Team beats out Thailand 3-1 in the Quarter Final.
    • Day 4: No changes in Medal Tally position. Indonesia getting far far away leading the position. (@update 7.20PM), Vietnam is getting close to Thailand with only three gold differences. Timor Leste is finally earns its very first bronze medal and First Gold medal for Laos. (@update 10PM) Indonesian woman team failed to win the gold medal after defeated by Thailand in the Final badminton woman Teams.
    • Day 5: aside from the medal tally position, today two big matches will be held. First is the Final Badminton Men Teams Indonesia vs Malaysia at 15.00WIB (GMT+7), 2nd is Pra-Piala Dunia 2014 Timnas Indonesia vs Iran. In the previous match Iran beats out Indonesia 3-0. @8pm update, Indonesia beats out Malaysia 3-1 in the Final Badminton Men Teams. Indonesian TIMNAS again falls to Iran 4-1 in Pra-Piala Dunia 2014.
    • Day 6: @update 1.30PM, Vietnam replaced Thailand on the second place of medal tally position. Both countries earn same 49 gold medals but Vietnam earns more Silvers. @update 8.00PM, Malaysia moved up to #4.
    • Day 7: Indonesia still leading, followed by Vietnam and Thailand. Singapore is taking back the fourth place from Malaysia. (@update 10AM). Today’s Match! Quarter Final Individual Badminton. @Update 2PM. Indonesian pair women’s double Anneke Agustina/Nitya Krishinda beat out Malaysian Vivian Hoo/ Khe Wei in the quarter final Individual Badminton. Anneke/Krishinda is the first pair to go to Semifinal. Indonesian second best (used to be world no.1) Men’s double Markis Kido/Hendra Setiawan made it to Semifinal after defeating Thailand’s Bodin Isara/Maneepong Jongjit 21-17, 21-15 in the quarter final. @update 3.30PM. All indonesian Badminton players made it through to Semifinal Sea Games 2011. (@update 9PM) Football Sea Games Indonesia vs Malaysia. 1st round Malaysia leads 1-0. Goal maker is M. Syahrul. Indonesia for the very first time in the Sea Games 2011 failed and its to Malaysia 0-1.
    • Day 8: Semifinal Badminton, Indonesia Mixed Double Mohammad Rijal/Debby Susanto failed to make their way to the Final after beaten up by Thailand’s Sudket Prapakamol/Saralee Thoungton. Taufik Hidayat in Semifinal Men’s single failed to follow the other fellas of Indonesian to the Final.
    • Day 9: Thailand is back on the second row of the medal tally position. Vietnam is following at number three. (BADMINTON) Singapore’s Fu Mingtian won the Gold Medal Badminton Woman’s Single after defeating Adrianti Firdasary from Indonesia in the Final. (All Indonesian Final) Men’s double Markis Kido/Hendra setiawan failed to Bona Septano (Kido’s Lil’ Brother)/Muhammad Ahsan 25-23, 21-10 and woman’s double Vita Marissa/Nadya Melati failed to their junior Anneke Feinya Agustin/Nitya Krishinda. Indonesian Mixed double Ahmad Tantowi/Lilyana Natsir beat out Sudket Prapakamol/Saralee Thoughton from Thailand 21-7, 21-14. (TENNIS) Women’s Single, Ayu Fani Damayanti and Christopher Benjamin Rungkat (Men’s Single) made their way through to Final. In the final Christoper will meet Thailand’s Danai Udomchoke who defeated Alexander Elbert from Indonesia in the Semifinal. (FOOTBALL) Malaysia made it to Final after beating Myanmar 1-0. Malaysia will be meeting either Indonesia or Vietnam in the Final.

  3. Perolehan Medali Sementara di Sea Games 19 Nov 2011

    COUNTRY

    RANK

    GOLD

    SILVER

    BRONZE

    TOTAL

    INDONESIA

    I

    138

    109

    101

    348

    THAILAND

    II

    81

    76

    90

    247

    VIETNAM

    III

    77

    73

    76

    226

    MALAYSIA

    IV

    47

    43

    63

    153

    SINGAPORE

    V

    39

    41

    70

    150

    PHILIPPINES

    VI

    24

    41

    59

    124

    LAO PDR

    VII

    8

    6

    24

    38

    MYANMAR

    VIII

    7

    19

    25

    51

    CAMBODIA

    IX

    3

    10

    14

    27

    BRUNEI D.

    X

    0

    2

    7

    9

    TIMOR LESTE

    XI

    0

    0

    3

    3

    TOTAL

    -

    424

    420

    532

    1376

    MEDAL LEFT :

    542

            -424

    =

    113

  4. Perolehan Medali Sementara Indonesia

    JAKARTA - Pertandingan SEA Games sudah memasuki hari ketiga. Perolehan medali emas Indonesia melejit pada Minggu (14/11/2011), dan meninggalkan para pesaingnya.
     
    Seperti diketahui, pada pertandingan SEA Games Minggu kemarin, setidaknya 31 emas diperebutkan oleh para atlet berbagai negara di asia ini. Hasilnya, Indonesia berhasil menyabet sekira 17 emas.
     
    Cabang olahraga Sepatu Roda menjadi primadona dalam pertandingan Minggu kemarin. Cabang olahraga ini berhasil menyumbang empat medali emas. Selain Sepatu Roda, sejumlah cabor juga tampil ciamik.
     
    Cabor itu diantaranya Atletik, Kano dan Karate yang masing-masing menyumbang tiga medali emas untuk Merah Putih. Sementara itu, cabor lain yang mempersembahkan medali emas adalah Renang (dua emas), Bersepeda (satu emas) dan Loncat Indah (satu emas).
     
    Praktis, tambahan 17 medali emas ini membuat Indonesia berada di puncak klasemen sementara klasemen SEA Games. Kontingen Merah Putih mengalahkan Thailand yang berada di peringkat kedua dan Vietnam yang ada di posisi ketiga.

    1. Indonesia 40 Emas; 29 Perak; 21 Perunggu; Total 90
    2. Thailand 21 Emas; 16 Perak; 24 Perunggu; Total 61
    3. Vietnam 17 Emas; 19 Perak; 19 Perunggu; Total 55
    4. Singapura 12 Emas; 17 Perak; 21 Perunggu; Total 41
    5. Malaysia 9 Emas; 10 Perak; 17 Perunggu; Total 36

  5. Ini adalah Gambar pemain indonesia saatmenghadapi pemain Qatar di kualifikasi pra piala dunia 2014

  6. Indonesia vs Qatar

    Pada pertandingan yang berakhir Sabtu dini hari WIB (12/11/2011), Indonesia ditekuk Qatar 4-0 lewat dua gol Khalfan Ibrahim, dan dua lagi oleh Muhammad Razark dan Sebastian Andres Quintana.

    Sejak pertandingan di Doha itu dimulai, Indonesia terus digempur oleh lini depan Qatar yang mengandalkan kecepatan dan transisi cepat dari belakang ke depan.

    Menit-14, kelengahan lini belakang Indonesia memaksa Hendro Kartiko melakukan penyelamatan krusial untuk menahan tendangan keras Khalfan Ibrahim. Gawang Indonesia pun masih aman.

    Meski sempat menampilkan pertahan yang cukup rapat, akhirnya kesalahan sendirilah yang membuat gawang timnas ‘Merah-Putih’ robek.

    Akhirnya pada menit-30 gawang Hendro Kartiko harus kebobolan lewat sebuah voli Muhammad Razark usai memaksimalkan blunder yang dilakukan Boaz Solossa di serempat lapangan sendiri.

    Hanya tiga menit berselang Hendro kembali harus memungut bola dari gawangnya lewat eksekusi penalti Khalfan Ibrahim, setelah Hamka Hamzah melanggar pemain Qatar di kotak terlarang.

    Setelah kebobolan dua gol, permainan Bambang Pamungkas cs lebih berkembang. Berkali-kali usaha M. Ridwan dan Boaz mengancam pertahanan lini pertahanan Qatar.

    Peluang terbaik didapat pada menit-36 lewat Tony Sucipto. M. Ridwan yang lepas di sisi kanan lapangan melepaskan umpan datar ke mulut gawang Qatar, Tony dapat menyambutnya tapi bola masih bisa diselamatkan Marcone Amaral di depan gawris gawang.

    Setelah itu giliran Boaz yang mendapat peluang pada menit-41. Lepas dari kawalan di sisi kiri kotak penalti, Tendangan kaki kiri pemain Persipura Jayapura itu hanya menghujam mistar gawang Qasem Burhan.

    Dibabak kedua, Indonesia harus lagi-lagi merasakan dua gol tambahan. Ibrahim kembali membuat jala gawang Indonesia bergetar setelah kerja sama satu duanya dapat menembus pertahanan Indonesia di menit-64.

    Setelah itu Indonesia tampil lebih berani dalam menyerang, namun kurang akuratnya umpan dan kerap membuat kesalahan sendiri membuat selalu gagalnya usaha menemukan ruang terbuka.

    Alih-alih memperkecil kedudukan, Indonesia malah kembali kebobolan pada injury time babak kedua. Sebastian Andres Quintana berhasil lepas dari kawalan Hamka Hamzah sebelum menipu M. Roby dan melepaskan tendangan keras untuk menaklukan Hendro.

    Akhirnya Indonesia pun kembali gagal memecah telur poinnya sampai partai keempat. Kekalahan ini pun memastikan langkah Indonesia terhenti sampai disini, setelah tidak mungkin mengejar ketertinggalan poin dari Iran dan Qatar yang sudah mengumpulkan delapan poin.

  7. Sea Games Indonesia vs Thailand

    Malam kemarin Indonesia berhasil menang melawan Thailand dengan skor 3-1 di ajang Sea Games yang dilaksanakan di indonesia. Gol pertama Indonesia diciptakan melalui Titus Bonai, Kemudian dibalas oleh Thailand melalui tendangan penalty. Lalu Patrick Wangai menciptakan gol melalui sundulan, Di menit menit Terakhir Ferdinand Sinaga berhasil merubah kedudukan Indonesia menjadi 3-1. Indonesia Menjadi peringkat pertama di grup A.

  8. Money Football

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    By Kaushik Lakshman

    Last week we saw a bizarre transfer when Al-Ain announced that they will be signing Asamoah Gyan on a one year loan at ridiculous wages. Gyan obviously took the option. Many questioned the move, accusing him of being a money grabber, accusing him of making a terrible move with respect to his career and what not.

    Truth be told, in the modern world, only a fool would let go of an opportunity to make such money, especially that most footballers come from pretty humble backgrounds, and at the end of the day, football is their living. Sure we can all see sense from the footballers’ perspective, but take a moment to think what might be the thought process behind the clubs that make these sort of transfers. Why do they pay such outrageous sums of money?

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  10. De Gea!

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