Singapore are optimistic about their chances in the friendly match against world-class Lionel Messi\u00a0and his team-mates.<\/p>\n
The friendly match against World Cup runners-up Argentina on June 13 has been the Lions\u2019 highest-profile international fixture to date.<\/p>\n
Despite the gulf in quality between the two teams, Singapore\u2019s head coach V. Sundramoorthy has good reason to be confident about his team\u2019s prospect.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a tough game, but definitely the boys will keep their heads up and fight till the final whistle. We are all mentally prepared and motivated to face a big team like Argentina, and I believe it is good exposure for the players,\u201d the former Singapore international footballer pledged during Friday\u2019s media conference, as quoted by Today Online.<\/a><\/p>\n On the other hand, Lions vice-captain Hariss Harun believed that playing against quality opposition will only help to improve the standard of the national team.<\/p>\n \u201cThe higher the quality of opposition we play, the better for the national team. Yes, we might concede a few goals, we might play a bad game, but overall, it will still be a learning experience for us. If we can play this kind of opposition on a regular basis, I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be good for Singapore football as a whole,\u201d Harun said.<\/p>\n The Lions<\/a> will take on another friendly match against Myanmar next Tuesday, before facing Taiwan four days later in a crucial AFC Asian Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Singapore are optimistic about their chances in the friendly match against world-class Lionel Messi\u00a0and his team-mates. The friendly match against World Cup runners-up Argentina on June 13 has been the Lions\u2019 highest-profile international fixture to date. Despite the gulf in quality between the two teams, Singapore\u2019s head coach V. Sundramoorthy has good reason to be confident about his team\u2019s prospect. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a tough game, but definitely the boys will keep their heads up and fight till the final whistle. We are all mentally prepared and motivated to face a big team like Argentina, and I believe it is good exposure for the players,\u201d the former Singapore international … Continue reading “Singapore confident before friendly match against Argentina”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":4158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855,26],"tags":[302,416,192,593,107,108,500],"class_list":["post-4157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rest-of-sea","category-southeast-asia","tag-argentina","tag-friendly","tag-hariss-harun","tag-lionel-messi","tag-myanmar","tag-singapore","tag-v-sundramoorthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157","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=4157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}