WITHDRAWALS OF THAILAND AND SINGAPORE

(AFF) There are now only four teams left vying to host the Asean Football Championship 2008 following the withdrawals of both the FA of Thailand (FAT) and the FA of Singapore (FAS) from the bidding process.

Both Thailand and Singapore announced their withdrawals from the official bid of the Asean Football Championship 2008 at the 2nd AFF Council meeting for the session 2007-2011 this morning in Yangon.

The four remaining countries are Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar.

At the same meeting, questionnaires were also given to the four candidate countries to answer as far as the stadium capacity, logistics, training facilities and other requirements are concerned.

The related Member Associations have until the end of the month to submit the questionnaires to the AFF.

As far as the qualifying competition for the Asean Football Championship is concerned, venue inspections will be conducted in the next month to assess the conditions of the two candidate countries of Laos and Cambodia.

Similar questionnaire have also been given to the Laos Football Federation (LFF) and the Football Federation of Cambodia (FFC).

The next AFF Council meeting will be held in Bali, Indonesia in December 2007.

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