Youth

“Focus and learn”

That’s Adam Swandi’s message to Lion City Cup players ahead of this year’s edition

SINGAPORE, 13 MAY 2013: It has been over two months since Adam Swandi left Singapore to join the FC Metz on a two-year contract. Having been named the Most Valuable Player for the Singapore National Football Academy Under-16 team last June, Adam continues to give us an insight on his daily life in France.

Organised by the Singapore Olympic Foundation (SOF), the 2nd Singapore Youth Olympic Festival (SYOF) acts as a platform for youths to showcase their sporting talents. The SYOF is a legacy of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) held in Singapore in 2010. It is also a platform to create awareness of the upcoming YOG 2014 in Nanjing, China. 

A perfect show from Tanjong Katong Secondary School helped them clinched the 2012 SSSC/FAS inter-school U13 5-a-side football fiesta.

Held at the Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday afternoon, the boys from the East Zone dominated in almost every match they played en-route to winning the gold medals.

[29 October 2012, SINGAPORE] – Singapore’s most talented youth footballers will take on the U19 teams from a trio of European footballing giants in the inaugural NexLions Cup to be held on 14^th and 16^th December, it was announced today.

The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) is pleased to annouce the opening of the Under-6 Junior Centre of Excellence on the 9th of June 2012. With a total of Junior COEs to 10 covering all the zones in Singapore, these centres cater to talented, young footballers.

Our football training programme now focuses on 4 age groups (Under 8, Under 10 and Under 12) is structured and conducted by our AFC Certified Coaches.

This programme is offered at no cost (no registration or monthly fee).   

[SINGAPORE, 3 JUNE 2012] – Nazirul Islam Bin Abdul Razak, Sim Li Ming, Faris Bin Ramli, Randy Pay Zhan Hao and Afiq Bin Mat Noor are the five footballers selected by Head Coach V.Sundramoorthy and Coach Aide Iskandar at Nike ‘The Chance’ Singapore Country Finals held over two days at the Jalan Besar Stadium on 2nd and 3rd June 2012.

23 boys laced their boots up on 2nd June and went straight into action as they participated in the Elite Training Live drills (ETL 2.0) under the watchful eyes of Coach Sundram and Aide.

This year the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) would be running a total of 10 Junior COEs (see table below) which covers all the zones. These centres are open for talented, young football boys.

Our football training programme which focuses on 3 age groups (Under 8, Under 10 and Under 12) is structured and conducted by our AFC Certified Coaches.

This programme is offered at no cost (no registration or monthly fee).   

The Football Association of Singapore will be holding their first FAS Goalkeepers Clinic this week but for the participants, work has already begun in the form of the Mentors Session over the weekend.

Woodlands Wellington goalkeeper Yazid Yasin, Young Lions shot-stopper Hyrulnizam Jumaat and NFA Under-18 custodian Izwan Mahbud were among those present at the session.

FAS held their 1^st Goalkeeper’s Clinic today at the Jalan Besar Stadium for schools from the East and West Zone, and will be conducting the same courses for the North and South Zone schools tomorrow as well as C Div kids next Wednesday.