The A-League will be heading overseas for the first time with Perth Glory set to host a match on the island of Borneo, Malaysia.<\/p>\n
As reported by SBS The World Game<\/a>, Perth Glory have signed a Memorandum Of Understanding with the Sarawak FA to host an A-League game next season.<\/p>\n Glory will also play a pre-season tour in Borneo this year, including two friendlies against Sarawak – likely on dates between August 3-9.<\/p>\n Perth Glory owner Tony Sage claimed that would initiate a deeper corporation\u00a0between A-League and Asian teams from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.<\/p>\n \u201cIt will be fantastic to play in Malaysia,\u201d said Sage.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy the FFA looks inwards for expansion<\/a> when we have over 300 million football-mad supporters in Asia seven hours to our north, is beyond me.<\/p>\n “Australian football’s civil war has flared up yet again, with A-League clubs lashing out at Football Federation Australia for releasing expansion plans they say they weren’t consulted about.<\/p>\n \u201cIt just takes bold decisions and a bit of politicking with the AFC (to make things happen).<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d bring in four teams over the next two stages of the expansion process – one from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n \u201cIt would greatly enhance the numbers of people watching and following our football and, most importantly, boost our broadcast revenue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The A-League will be heading overseas for the first time with Perth Glory set to host a match on the island of Borneo, Malaysia. As reported by SBS The World Game, Perth Glory have signed a Memorandum Of Understanding with the Sarawak FA to host an A-League game next season. Glory will also play a pre-season tour in Borneo this year, including two friendlies against Sarawak – likely on dates between August 3-9. Perth Glory owner Tony Sage claimed that would initiate a deeper corporation\u00a0between A-League and Asian teams from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. \u201cIt will be fantastic to play in Malaysia,\u201d said Sage. \u201cWhy the FFA looks … Continue reading “A-League will play an official game in overseas for the first time”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":12451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[380,110,64,217],"class_list":["post-12450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-a-league","tag-australia","tag-malaysia","tag-perth-glory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}