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(Complied with information from media release by the Football Association of Singapore ) No surprise as notable performers are being nominated for the various awards at the annual S.League Awards Nite to be held at St James Power House this coming Sunday (21st November). League's top scorer Etoile FC's striker Fred Mendy's (pictured above) name is the nomination lists for both Player and Young Player of the Year awards. Having coached his team to the title on its first season, Etoile's Patrick Vallee will face stiff challenge from fellow debutante?Lee Lim Saeng of Home United, as well as former winners Richard Bok of SAFFC and Stags' Vorawan Chitavanich with dark horse Darren Stewart from Gombak United for the Coach of the Year award. Awards regular Tampines Rovers' evergreen Aleksandar Duric with another veteran Md Noor Ali of Woodlands Wellington will also be honoured on the same evening for hitting the milestone of 300 goals and 100 goals respectively in the

(Pictured above) The first sight of FICO premises, where I first met Arief of " Lions All The Way " at this car park. Located at one obscure corner of Jurong West, one would not necessarily take a second look at this building if one would drive or walk past this site. However, as a saying goes - never judge a book by its cover, it would be unfair to pass any judgement without step into "FICO Sports Hub" to see what it has to offer. The heat resistant shelters shield the players from the scorching heat. The eight indoor futsal courts enjoy high-booking rate. On a land area of six-hectares, the sports hub is the home of eight indoor futsal courts, which are covered with heat resistant shelters, plus a beach volleyball court is just right beside them. "We don't see ourselves as mere provider of futsal courts for football lovers out there, part of our scope is to provide event management services to our corporate clients, if necessary." said Mr Steven Wong

Bangkok Glass made history by winning the Singapore Cup Guest team Bangkok Glass (pictured above) claimed the final trophy of the domestic season by snatching the Singapore Cup by beating Tampines Rovers 1-0 at the Jalan Besar Stadium. With the Cup claimed by another foreign team (both the S.League title and League Cup were won by Etoile FC), it set an unprecedented clean sweep of the three major honours for the first time by non-Singaporean teams. So where are we heading next? THE ONLY GOAL THAT SEALED THE WIN FOR THE BUNNIES How the goal was scored  A collage of the only goal scored (pictured above) in the match which saw French defender Benoit Croissant deflect the ball off Glass's defender Wasan Homsaen from the right. THAI FANS ROCKED JBS The Bangkok Glass fans made their presence felt These travelling Thai supporters made their presence felt, as always, as if we were in LEO stadium in Bangkok, at least it was a worthwhile effort to come down to support their heroes in

(Media Information from the Football Association of Singapore ) Coach Raddy (in dark outfit) is gunning for his third regional title at the end of the year SINGAPORE, 12 November 2010: National Coach Radojko Avramovic has called up a provisional squad of 26 players for the AFF Suzuki Cup in December. Coach Radojko has picked an experienced squad with over half the team seeing action in earlier editions of the Suzuki Cup. He will finalise a squad of 22 players for the trip to Hanoi. Singapore is in Group B of the biennial tournament alongside Myanmar, co-hosts Vietnam and Philippines with the Lions first match on 2 December. Group A in Jakarta features Laos, Malaysia, Thailand and co-hosts Indonesia. Please see below and attached Singapore’s provisional squad list of 26 players. Full Name Position Club / Country Caps Goals Lionel Lewis GK Home United 68 0 Hassan Sunny GK Tampines Rovers 29 0 Izwan

Historical night at Jurong East Stadium, debutante Etoile FC claimed their second trophy of the season by clinching the holy grail - the S.League championship (pictured above). After suffering some early scares in the first half by trailing 2-1 to hosts Albirex Niigata (S), the French stormed back to beat the Japanese 4-2 in the end to seal the race. Coach Patrick Vallee (pictured above on right) claimed his second honour in his debut season with the French outfit, would he sweep the coveted "Coach of the Year" award on the "S.League Awards Nite" on the 21st November as that final piece of his jig-saw puzzle? But one thing for sure is Frederic Mendy (pictured above) is set to go up to the stage to pick up this season's "Top Scorer" on the same night. The other two results on the night saw Tampines Rovers beat Balestier Khalsa 4-1, while the "Uniform Derby" at the Jalan Besar Stadium ended with both SAFFC and Home United in a goal-less dra