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|  | Fernandes Wants Indonesian Club/SE Asia League
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http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsgeneral.php?id=686633
Tony Fernandes Keen To Buy Indonesian Football Club
By Ahmad Fuad Yahya
JAKARTA, Aug 8 (Bernama) -- AirAsia Group CEO Tan Sri Tony Fernandes, who has just moved from Kuala Lumpur to this big city of Jakarta, has been asked to get involved in Indonesian football.
The owner of the Queens Park Rangers (QPR) club of England said he was, in fact, offered to buy an Indonesian football club.
"I am interested, it's an honour that people even ask me to get involved in Indonesian football. So, let's wait and see, it's interesting," he said during an interview after the launch of AirAsia Asean, the regional base office here yesterday.
Fernandes, however, refused to name the Indonesian club that was offered for sale.
According to a foreign press report, Fernandes' Tune Group bought a 66 per cent stake in the QPR club last year from Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone and his partner Flavio Briatore, with the balance retained by steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal's family.
The deal was worth 35 million pounds.
-- BERNAMA
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"..I also find it insulting that qpr-reports site are asking so many questions. They seem to want to know everything that goes on at the club..."
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« Reply #1 on Aug 9, 2012, 9:40am » | |
And wants a South East Asian Champions League
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/sports/fo....a-league/536919
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Football: QPR Owner Fernandes Wants SE Asia League
The flamboyant Malaysian owner of English Premier League side Queens Park Rangers said Thursday he would be keen to support a Southeast Asian club competition similar to the Champions League in Europe.
Tony Fernandes, whose AirAsia is the world’s biggest budget airline and who has already founded a regional basketball league, said the idea had long been a dream of his.
“I have always dreamed of an Asean football league. I will put money in an Asean league,” Fernandes told reporters in Kuala Lumpur, referring to the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Fernandes, who also is principal of the Caterham Formula One team, made the comments in denying Malaysian media reports that he may be in the market to purchase an Indonesian football club.
Fernandes founded the Asean basketball league in 2009.
He said a Southeast Asian football league could help to improve the overall quality of football in the region.
“We started the Asean basketball league. It will be great to have an Asean football league like the European (Champions League). It will be exciting to see players from Malaysia and Singapore play,” he said.
Football is extremely popular in the region.
“We just need more competition. If they [Malaysian teams] play everyday in a league like the Premier League we would have a great team.
“For me it is very sad. In the semi-finals of the Olympics, it is Japan against South Korea. When I was young we beat Japan and the South Korea. The difference is they have a very competitive league,” he said.
“Probably one day we can do something,” Fernandes said, smiling, but declining to say whether any plans were in the works.
Agence France-Presse
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| | Re: Fernandes Wants Indonesian Club/SE Asia League
« Reply #2 on Aug 11, 2012, 5:08am » | |
Not sure on an Asean league. I know Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore, Indonesia have leagues running. Malaysia sent 1 team to Singapore's S-league and Singapore sent 1 team to play in the Malaysia Super League. Thailand have their own Premier League. Brunei did send 1 team to play in the MSL, and subsequently S-League before the Brunei FA was banned by FIFA for government interference. Indonesia have their own Indonesia Super League too.
Not sure if Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Phillipines, Vietnam have their own leagues.
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