The cultivation process has started

[midfielder]

It looks like that cultivation process has started -:

http://www.the-afc.com/eng/articles/viewArticle.jsp_168525904.html

Will no doubt go down well in Canberra and in with business wishing to do business in Asia as well.

 

[serious14]

Where's the pasted article??

Dude, you're slipping......

 

[midfielder]

Where's the pasted article??

Dude, you're slipping......

Blame the new pink anti paste pills  :-[ ... Ahhhhhh it's hard ... Serious putting temptation ... to hard to fight .. :-\

Vision Asia, AFC's comprehensive plan to lift football in the continent, received a major boost with the Football Federation of Australia eager to sign on as sponsors of the programme.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Football Federation of Australia (FFA) is set to sponsor Vision Asia in a major boost for AFCs ambitious continental development programme.

An FFA delegation, led by Head of National Teams & Football Development John Boultbee, was in AFC House on Friday to discuss details with AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam and the Vision Asia team.

We want to be a good member of the AFC and contribute to Vision Asia in the best way that we can, Boultbee told the-afc.com on Friday.

We want to make a financial contribution and also a contribution in kind with equipment, expertise and competition opportunities.

Boultbee said Vision Asia provides the perfect platform from which Australia can serve the needs of Member Associations that require assistance when it comes to developing football in their respective countries.

AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam said Australia has plenty of football experience and can support the AFC in their development efforts around Asia.

Vision Asia has made great strides since it was started more than five years ago and, with Australia eager to get involved in a significant way, it can only get stronger and enhance the benefits for those countries who want to be part of this programme, said Bin Hammam.

Vision Asia was launched by Bin Hammam in 2003 and is aimed at lifting the standards of football at all levels throughout Asia.

Associations currently under the Vision Asia fold are: Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Northern Mariana Islands, Oman, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Must get a stronger dose of the pink pills or take two :-[ Serious you must assist and  not arose temptation    otherwise the anti CPA board (Copy Paste Amend) will be after you   

 

[clarence]

Looking at that article was the first I had heard of this Vision Asia.

I can appreciate the need to lift the standard of football within the AFC and I do believe Australia can be one of the good guys helping poorer nations with that.

But I notice that the likes of Iran, Uzbekistan and China (as well as India) are also members. I trust they do not want us to 'help' these countries develop and improve their Football?

Seriously, Iran, Uzbekistan & China have all caused us troubles in past WC campaigns (Iran97 anyone? Also we played Uzbekistan in a hard away trip last year, and China beat our 'B' team in Sydney last year too), and the likes of China and India have a greater degree of national wealth through recent years of development than we have..

We have to be careful that while we are gracious in helping out the likes of smaller Football nations likes Vietnam and the Maldives etc. that we don't fall into the trap of assuming that the 'poor' Chinese or those 'backwards' Eastern European countries like Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan get more help than we need!

After all, Australia's football is just starting to bloom after all these years, and Football isn't the only code of football in this nation competing for Govt. money or sponsor $$.

 

[northernspirit]

just the sort of thing we need to secure votes for the w.c bid, nice suck up job ffa

 

[FFC Mariner]

Plunder the developing football nations for promising juniors, develop them and flog them off to Europe or back into Asia

Sounds like a plan

Neo-Colonialism in football

Yay

 

[Jesus]

just the sort of thing we need to secure votes for the w.c bid, nice suck up job ffa

Agree quality vote buying. Roll on the south american vote buying attempts.

 

[David Votoupal]

In real footballing terms, Asia is still the region with the greatest disparities. And it's unlikely they'll be addressed in the near future.