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This is only picture I have of Egmar, as Renato wasn't able to get a recent one from Egmar. Ever wonder what's been going on with former Home United and national striker Egmar Goncalves, after he left Singapore in January 2007? With the help of Mr Renato Andreão , a journalist with " trivela.com " - a Brazilian soccer news portal, I managed to track down the former ace striker of the Protectors. Below is a list of Q & A, which with the help of Renato, here's what Egmar has to share with us how is he doing now since he left Singapore. Q & A with Egmar... It's been quite a while we last hear from you, after you returned to Brazil. So are you still playing actively? As what I heard you been playing for some amateur teams since then. “After I returned from Singapore in 2007, I played for a club called Desportiva and follow by Rio Branco , a year later, but I decided to hang up my boots because I found that infrastructure and administrative-wise the standa...

Thanks again to Mr Bryan Lim, whom I met at Clementi stadium just now, for telling me this friendly fixture. The defending champions SAFFC, without those players on national duty, walked away with 3-1 win over Balestier Khalsa. Park Tae Won marked his Warriors debut with his cross from the right that saw Ahmad Latiff opened the accounts with his header in the 35th minute. Friendly fixture as it meant to be, a chance to weed out any shortcoming and gel the team for the new season. PICTURES FROM THE MATCH Both "Masa" (Masahiro Fukasawa) and Therdsak Chaiman didn't started the game. Park Tae Won (18) made his debut for the Warriors in this friendly. Balestier coach Nasaruddin Jalil conducted his team talk as chairman Mr Balbeer Singh Mangat looks on. "Throw in" to restart the game. Match in action .

I came across this well-written article by chance. It was written by a lady named Aishah Hamza and starkly titled, " Why Singaporeans Don’t Watch S.League ". As the name implied, she gave a good account from her own perspective why she felt as what her article suggested. Some excerpts from her article: "But S.League is like local music. Singaporeans just don’t like it enough. That’s just the way it is…you can attribute it to our cultural mindset that local is never better than foreign stuff…but that’s just the way we tick. Motley Crue in concert? Wooh! We pay big bucks to be there. But Gry Spy Experiment (some local brand, I believe) ? Nah" "the S.League’s destined to remain unpopular because Singaporeans have no emotional attachment to it. " "So what can FAS do? Honestly, they can’t do anything much. We will always have more allegiance for clubs halfway across the world than Sengkang Punggol F.C or Balestier Khalsa." Indeed, sometimes truth real...

Many Thanks to Mr Bryan Lim, who left a comment on one of my recent postings and included the following dates of some upcoming friendlies of SAFFC - the defending champions 11 Jan 09, 5pm, Clementi Stadium, (SAFFC VS BKFC) 17 Jan 09, Sat, 5pm, CCK Stadium, (SAFFC VS SPFC) 24 Jan 09, Sun, 7:30pm, CCK Stadium. (SAFFC VS Johor FC). Please feel free to catch the Warriors in action...

(P.S: Quite a big percentage of you folks desired for "More Clubs Insights", and so the first post entry will kicked start with one of the clubs.) The trophy cabinet of the club located at the main hall of the clubhouse. I was invited to Geylang United's pre-season seminar, held in their clubhouse, on the first sunday of 2009. I was told that this is an annual event by the club before the start of every season, when players and officials get together to be briefed on the club's visions for the coming campaign. On top of that, the concerned parties were given a series of talks on issues like the laws of the game and legal obligations to be observed by the players by relevant speakers. Mr Ronnie Tan, the club's legal advisor gave talk on the topic titled - "Player Code of Conduct and Professional - Ethics & Corruption - What You Need To Know" to the audience. Mr Visvanathan, Head (FAS Referees Dept) was the next speaker on the "Laws of the Game...